The newspapers made you famous, not solely because of your deeds - though you are entitled to be proud of them - but because you made a grand story." (220-221)A romance hero becomes a hero not just because of his courage or other interesting and/or valuable qualities. "I suppose this is the price one pays for having a forceful and exciting character," she went on. If you knew their stories, you would understand how demented it seems to me to be singled out as the hero."
There were men who'd been with Wellington for years, who acted with surpassing courage and gallantry. "Others did as much and more My actions were nothing extraordinary. Alistair and Mirabel's thoughts on what makes a hero can perhaps be read as being somewhat metafictional: "I am tetchy about being made out to be hero," he said. In a previous post I wrote about Loretta Chase's Alistair Carsington, an acclaimed war hero. It's Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero. The last thing she needs is a stunningly attractive, oversensitive and over-bright aristocrat reminding her she has a heart-not to mention a body he claims is so unstylishly clothed that undressing her is practically a civic duty.I think maybe we need a soundtrack for this post, so here it is. Mirabel Oldridge already has her hands full keeping her brilliant and aggravatingly eccentric father out of trouble. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a woman every bit as intelligent, obstinate, and devious as he-and maddeningly irresistible. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire-in winter!-where he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all temptation, and repay the friend who saved his life on the fields of Waterloo. The first book in the Carsington Family series from award-winning romance author Loretta Chase!Īlistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn’t love women quite so much.
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