This book is second in a series. I found it boring and didn't finish it. ( )

Second book of the Huxtable series. When innocent Katherine Huxtable turns up on the London scene, Jasper Finaley, Baron Montford accepts a bet that he can seduce her thoroughly within 2 weeks. Though he could win the bet, he chooses not to and accepts the reputation for being dismissed by Miss Huxtable rather than ruin her reputation. But years later rumours again circulate about the two and a forced marriage results. Lacking the same sparkle as the other Huxtable books, and with rather bland characters. ( )

The second story in the Huxtable series focuses on Katheen and Jasper. Jasper is a rogue who wager that he can seduce Kat into bed. Just as he was about to win the wager and just as Kat fell in love with him, her heart was broken!! Jasper decdes to leave London and does so for three years. Upon his return, she is back in his life. He then has another wager with Kat: that he can make her fall in love with him. As the town sees thier courtship, and a scandal is born, ressurecting the old wager. Jaser convices Kat that the solution would be to marry him. And so begins thier journey that will lead them to fall in love with each other. Jasper has such a great personality that makes him one of my favorite characters, next to Stephen Hustable. I enjoyed this story better than the first and look forward to reading the third story. ( )

Wanted more action. Tea, dances and a reluctance to marry were not enough for me. ( )

The second in Balogh's Huxtable family series finds youngest daughter Katherine the target of a rake.

Fun, and funny, with unexpected depths. ( )

As I started to read this book (Pt 2 of Mary's new Huxtable series), I realized that I may have been reading just one too many predictable, formulaic romances lately (even though predictable, formulaic romances are my absolute favourite!!!)
Balogh is an Auto-Read author for me so I knew I'd check out her new family saga about the Huxtable family. But this one started out so much the same as all the rest, I wasn't going to give it a chance but it's good that I did. Not that it was fantastic, not that I'd re-read it but it certainly was just fine.
It features the youngest sister, Katherine, and a well-known rake Jasper Finley, Baron Montford. Their relationship starts out as a bad joke due to a nasty wager but in the end, things work out beautifully. Love overcomes all yet again and the book was quite enjoyable. I will definitely read Maragaret's story as well as Stephen's but I may take a romance novel hiatus for just a little while..... (Maybe head over to Sci Fi or Horror or Mainstream......) ( )

The second in Balogh's Huxtable family series finds youngest daughter Katherine the target of a rake.

Fun, and funny, with unexpected depths. ( )

Mary Balogh does it again! "Then Comes Seduction" is a perfect read if you like bad-boy-redeemed-by-good-girl stories. There's more to it than that, of course, but I figure if this is your type of book...that's enough to get you interested.

On his 25th birthday, Jasper makes his most infamous bet. He will seduce the virtuous society virgin of his buddies' choice. They select none other than Katherine, cousin to his brother-in-rakehellness, Constantine. All proceeds according to plan, until the final moment when Jasper draws back and delivers a set-down guaranteed to make her despise him...and it works.

It's three years later and Katherine has certainly, um...mostly, all right occasionally managed to forget about the gorgeous villain who managed to do the right thing...likely for once in his life! But soon a strange set of circumstances and coincidences bring Jasper back into her life...to stay. Now Katherine is going to join in a very private wager with Jasper. The results of which will determine their future together.

Balogh's romances are steamy and yet still touching somehow. Her ability to depict the unconscious changes in thought and character of her heroes and heroines is unsurpassed. There's no sudden moment...where actions change and from one day to the next life is different. Instead, her characters come to recognize the changes have already taken place over time and circumstance. For me, this is a reading pleasure in and of itself. The only epiphanies for her characters are when they come to realize what the reader's already figured out...they do love each other and that love will last.

I enjoyed "First Comes Marriage" so much, I was just hoping for an equal read. But Mary Balogh gave me more than that with "Then Comes Seduction". Now I just have to wait another month to get the next book in this series, "At Last Comes Love", Margaret's story. A whole month! ( )