A Review of Devil May Care

DEVIL MAY CARE
Melanie George
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Company
Historical Romance
February, 2001
ISBN No.082177008X, $5.99, 336 pp.

Excerpt:

"There he is! Mephistoheles in the flesh. Good God, the man could make Solomon blush."

Lady Eden Spencer turned from her cousin's animated countenance to see the man Reggie rudely pointed at, although she didn't need to look to know. Damien Sinclair's arrival had been heralded by hushed voices that ebbed and swelled as he made his way through the room, people parting in front of him as if showing their deference before the Creator instead of the other one, down below.

While Damien Sinclair, Earl of Blackstone's reputation paints him dark as sin, Lady Eden Spencer's veneer shines lily white.

Having spent the last several years of her quiet and pious life in a convent, Eden Spencer feels she doesn't know what it's like to be bold, or bad. Before fate returns to the convent or finds hers married off by her Uncle, she must experience life--the life she has never known. Who better to give her a taste of misbehaving, than Damien Sinclair?

Damien Sinclair can never pass up a beautiful woman or the opportunity to make a few bucks. Eden's proposal that she pay him to show her how the other half lives is tempting, to say the least. So tempting, in fact, that when Eden's Uncle forbids her to see "the Devil" and causes her to rescind her offer, he will not take "no" for an answer.

The worlds of Eden and Damien collide, setting off sparks to rival the first light of day. As in Genesis, Melanie George creates a compelling, character-driven novel of an engaging struggle between "good" and "evil." But where Genesis' garden bore only Adam and Eve, "Devil May Care," boasts engaging characters like the seemingly effeminate Reggie with his "anything to irk the elder" attitude, a stodgy Uncle Edward, the manipulative Lady Sinclair and the irritating Lord Myddleton, to name a few.

Like other characters too naive and too young, Eden might have posed a threat to the success of this book. However, her age and naivete proved well justified to the story plot and didn't draw much away from my reading enjoyment. Wherever Eden's role seemed weak, Reggie and Damien picked up the slack in a delightful manner.

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