Romance
Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea by Sophia Nash Review
April 14, 2012 | 
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Roxanne Vanderhaven always thought she was a good wife, until the day her husband pushed her over the side of a cliff and left her for dead. In Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea by Sophia Nash Roxanne is finally rescued by Alexander Barclay, Duke of Kress, but she isn’t sure what to do since her husband has tried to kill her and she has no where to go.
One of the six dukes of the Royal Entourage, Alexander Barclay has fallen out of favor with Prinny, the future King of England, after a night of drinking that left him without a memory of evening and public opinion outraged over the excesses of the Dukes of England. As punishment, Alexander is forced to go to his dilapidated estate and renovate it before he is allowed to return to London. After saving Roxanne, Alexander isn’t quite sure what to do with her so he decides to take her along with him, pretending that she an impoverished relative. But Alexander finds himself attracted to the already married woman, he isn’t sure what to do to be able to be with the woman he is starting to think he can’t live without.
Normally I don’t enjoy novels where one of the characters is already married but Sophia Nash handled the situation well in Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea. The story starts out like The Hangover with Alexander not remembering what happened, or even where all the dukes are. I started off disliking Alexander but by the end of the novel he had redeemed himself. Roxanne’s antics made me giggle and I was entertained throughout the story. The premise of the series is interesting and I will be reading the next book in the series.
You can read an excerpt here.
The Royal Entourage Series:
Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea
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Title: Between the Duke and the Deep Blue Sea
Author: Sophia Nash
Format: Paperback, eBook
Page Nos.: 384
ISBN: 978-0062022325
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: February 2012
Available for purchase: Amazon
Reviewer: Jessica
**I received a copy of this book from NetGalley but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way.
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John Carter Books-to-Movie Intro
Novel Reaction is excited to be once again doing the Books-to-Movie Challenge. This month we are going to be reading and watching John Carter by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally published as a serial novel in 1912, A Princess of Mars is the first book in the Barsoom series. There are eleven books in the series with the last one being published in 1943. The books are all public domain, meaning there are no rights retained by the author’s estate, so you can get the first book free here.
In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth—a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of sixlimbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars’s weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga.John Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of The All-Story magazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere. On the occasion of John Carter’s centenary, The Library of America invites readers to rediscover A Princess of Mars, the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance.
We are watching the 2012 version of the film starring Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris and William Defoe as Tars Tarkas. The film also stars Mark Strong as Matai Shang, I have to admit that Mark Strong is one of my favorite villain actor, he was fabulous in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and The Green Latern (2011).
So pull up a book, a bucket of popcorn and let the fun begin!
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