Review: Ravish Me with Rubies (The London Jewels Trilogy #3)

Ravish Me with Rubies (The London Jewels Trilogy #3)

by Jane Feather

Blurb:

From the spark of revenge...

Petra Rutherford is certain she isn't the first dreamy-eyed girl that devilishly handsome Baron Granville of Ashton has loved and left behind. But when her brother's political ambitions place her before him once more, she's determined to give Guy Granville his own taste of torment. What better way to best a scoundrel than by luring his interest—before bringing things to an abrupt, embarrassing end? The only flaw in her gem of a plan is her still powerful attraction to the dazzling nemesis...

To a love more precious than rubies...

Guy Granville is disarmed by Petra's bold pursuit of him, so much so that he forgets he never intended to fall in love—much less entertain thoughts of marriage. Now, if only the fiery Petra would stop sparring with him long enough to surrender to him completely—and allow him to convince her that his riches, his rubies, and his heart belong with her...

Themes: Historical  

Rating: 3.5 stars

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Review:

 The finale to Jane Feather’s newest series brings closure for a woman who had her heart crushed by a careless youth years earlier and now finds herself back in his orbit. I have enjoyed much of Ms. Feather’s writing for decades and with each new series we get a different look into the world as she sees it, but this series has had some interesting political and societal topics for the time setting that were different than many authors.  Our finale story revolves around the third in a set of long-time female friends, Petra who is a strong support of women’s suffrage in England and it sometimes gets her into trouble seeing as her brother is a member of parliament.  But when she is faced with her first girl-hood crush, all grown up and sexy as ever, Petra devises and slightly ridiculous plan to enact revenge for him breaking her heart when he disappeared from her life without a word.  Guy is enamored of Petra as much as he doesn’t understand her.  She is at turns sweet and combative, but he cannot resist her and the more time her spend with her, the more he comes to care for the spitfire.  But their political beliefs and ambitions are definitely not on the same side and in order to be together one or the other of them will have to bend, but are either of them willing to do so in order to have a life together? Petra was the kind of character that had moments where I liked her, and others where she annoyed the heck out of me, but I respected her for her willingness to stand up for what she believed was right and defend those she felt needed her help.  She is obviously one of the few women of her station that understand that she has it very good compared to most women and to use that power to help all women of her time.  She was sassy and once she opened her heart to Guy was also sweet to him, but other times she refused to understand that if she truly loved him she had to take into account how her action would affect him and his job. In the end I did like her overall, but there were certainly things that made me crazy about her along the way.  Guy was an interesting character as well, with his own flaws and foibles, as he navigated his new relationship with Petra and learned how to be part of a couple. He never realized how much he hurt her when they were youths, so he doesn’t really understand the anger she always excludes in his presence, but once he gets her past the majority of that, he sees the sweet and sensual woman she hides from most of society behind her brain and sassy mouth.    His strength, bravery, and intelligence made him likeable and turned my mind from him being a one-dimensional character into one I could truly get to know and enjoy reading about.  The passion between them, whether it be anger or otherwise, was something that sparked and burned those around them if they got to close until they finally succumbed to their feelings and quenched the fire.  I enjoyed this story, though there were moments of screaming at the characters for sure.  I am looking forward to whatever new series Jane sends our way next.

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