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So I guess Anna Campbell (no relation) went through this phase where she decided to make bodice rippers "happen." The first book written in this vein was called CLAIMING THE COURTESAN and it very much wants to be one of those I'm-so-alpha-that-I-piss-iron-tacks bodice rippers of the 1970s...only in a fluffy, romantic way. (So basically, it sucked.) I was leery of UNTOUCHED, hoping that it wouldn't be more of the same - but fear not! Because this book is much better than its predecessor, with a far better story, to boot!

Grace Paget has had a pretty awful life. She's been estranged for her family for years for marrying this religious fanatic who was many years older than she was. Now he's dead, and with nowhere to go, she plans to go stay with a distant relative. Unfortunately, she's kidnapped before she can reach her destination, and spirited away to a remote manor.

She finds that she has been mistaken for a "whore" and taken here to be entertainment to the "mad" marquess by said marquess's cruel uncle. But the more she talks to the marquess, the more she realizes that he really doesn't seem mad. However, since his uncle controls his fortune for as long as he remains both alive and unfit to manage his own affairs, Matthew is completely in his uncle's power - and if Grace doesn't warm his bed and keep him complacent, she's going to be killed.

There's a really great Gothic vibe to this book that kind of reminded me of Maire Claremont's THE DARK LADY. Both characters are sympathetic and you can't help but feel for the awful situation the two of them are in, particularly as the situation grows more and more dire. The sex scenes are scorching hot and I liked the fact that the hero (not the heroine) was a virgin.

I gave this book three stars because the romance was a little too cheesy considering the dark content of the rest of the book. Some of the sex scenes were also a little too flowery for my taste, but that appears to be Anna Campbell's style, and she made it work here (it was worse in CLAIMING THE COURTESAN). I also felt that Matthew warmed to Grace far too quickly, considering how suspicious he was of her in the beginning (and with good reason). It would have been better if the evil uncle's presence had been more "known," so the reader could really feel the pressure he exerted.

Overall, though, this was a decent book. One of the best by this author that I've read in years. If you were burned by CLAIMING THE COURTESAN and found yourself loath to try another one of her works, let me be the first to assure you that this is a vast improvement over her previous work.

3 to 3.5 out of 5 stars


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Untouched Anna Campbell 9780061234927 Books Reviews

With so many reviews of this book available, I will just list some of my random thoughts of this well-done Regency-period novel.

* Nearly all the action takes place on a small, walled-off estate, but it didn't suffer from the narrowness of the locale one bit.
* There is a beauty of language not often seen. Some of my favorites

"He stared wordlessly down at the source of his anguish and his delight."

"She stared at him, lost, dazzled, silent. Masculine triumph surged through him. She looked like the world started and ended with this moment."

"All he had were instincts and an almighty need to share the wild rapture he'd found in her arms."

* In many ways, this book is both tormented and lovely. Matthew finds his purpose in Grace, and those are beautiful moments in the story.

* Late in the book there is still a formidable level of suspense. I know when I can't read fast enough that the author is spectacular at crafting a climax.
A good read it is not the best book of Mrs. Campbell until now is 7 nights in rogue bed. This is my second book wrote by this author and will not be the last. Matthew is Lord and one of the most wealthy man in England and he declared a madman by a scams doctors who were paid to declare Matthew lunatic by his uncle, who was declared his ward and to keep him of his madness. Everything was scam to his uncle can manage his wealth and is keeping isolated from society. He has been captive from his was 14 years old and now is in his twenties. Grace a widow and destitute lost her farm and she is a daughter of a aristocratic family, who married with a radical and 40 years more than her. By accident she was kidnapped by two brutes and taken where Matthew lives to entertain and gratifying sexually. Well they fell in love and eventually he know that she is lady. What I like is the knowledge how society treat the mentally unstable how somebody can be kept or disappear and nobody cares. The only complaint is not friends/or family try to see him and when Matthew is freed converted the place of where he suffered into a hospital for mentally ill. I hope the author write other book about Matthew'life with Grace and explains it. I recommend this book for the sensibility the mental conditions and deserve the four starts. Buy the book and you will not disappoint and special if you care the issues of the mentally illness.
So I guess Anna Campbell (no relation) went through this phase where she decided to make bodice rippers "happen." The first book written in this vein was called CLAIMING THE COURTESAN and it very much wants to be one of those I'm-so-alpha-that-I-piss-iron-tacks bodice rippers of the 1970s...only in a fluffy, romantic way. (So basically, it sucked.) I was leery of UNTOUCHED, hoping that it wouldn't be more of the same - but fear not! Because this book is much better than its predecessor, with a far better story, to boot!

Grace Paget has had a pretty awful life. She's been estranged for her family for years for marrying this religious fanatic who was many years older than she was. Now he's dead, and with nowhere to go, she plans to go stay with a distant relative. Unfortunately, she's kidnapped before she can reach her destination, and spirited away to a remote manor.

She finds that she has been mistaken for a "whore" and taken here to be entertainment to the "mad" marquess by said marquess's cruel uncle. But the more she talks to the marquess, the more she realizes that he really doesn't seem mad. However, since his uncle controls his fortune for as long as he remains both alive and unfit to manage his own affairs, Matthew is completely in his uncle's power - and if Grace doesn't warm his bed and keep him complacent, she's going to be killed.

There's a really great Gothic vibe to this book that kind of reminded me of Maire Claremont's THE DARK LADY. Both characters are sympathetic and you can't help but feel for the awful situation the two of them are in, particularly as the situation grows more and more dire. The sex scenes are scorching hot and I liked the fact that the hero (not the heroine) was a virgin.

I gave this book three stars because the romance was a little too cheesy considering the dark content of the rest of the book. Some of the sex scenes were also a little too flowery for my taste, but that appears to be Anna Campbell's style, and she made it work here (it was worse in CLAIMING THE COURTESAN). I also felt that Matthew warmed to Grace far too quickly, considering how suspicious he was of her in the beginning (and with good reason). It would have been better if the evil uncle's presence had been more "known," so the reader could really feel the pressure he exerted.

Overall, though, this was a decent book. One of the best by this author that I've read in years. If you were burned by CLAIMING THE COURTESAN and found yourself loath to try another one of her works, let me be the first to assure you that this is a vast improvement over her previous work.

3 to 3.5 out of 5 stars