A DARKER REGENCY ROMANCE Only one thing stands between Sebastian and his quest for revenge.He’s fallen in love with his prey. Ivy Kinley, Countess of Somerset, destroyed a young man, heart and soul. Now, she’s the target of a cruel game where she is the prize. Wages are placed: Survived her or win her. Sebastian Cain, Earl of Ravenswood is undaunted by the high stakes and Ivy’s reputation. … Ravenswood is undaunted by the high stakes and Ivy’s reputation. Returning to England, he means to avenge his cousin’s tragic death while ruining the woman he believes responsible. His plan is to lull her with an offer of friendship, one she will not refuse. But until he has Ivy’s heart bleeding and tattered in his pocket, and the countess herself in his bed, at his mercy and begging for more, he will pursue her.
Can he tame her? Perhaps. Could he ruin her? Most definitely. Should Ivy trust his offer of friendship? Absolutely not.
Taming her becomes a pleasurable addiction. Loving her, a dangerous development. Understanding his fascination proves confusing at best. Somehow, a quest for revenge becomes a mutual obsession.
Who will be ruined first? And, who will be tamed last?
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Sebastian Cain and Ivy Kinley are locked in a game of wills, one for revenge and the other expecting to fall in her trap. But this gives them a drastic change when loyalties and feelings are challenged. I like Sebastian and Ivy – one hard the other soft. This spilt story of revenge was investing but there were times when I was bored and Ivy’s reactions to Sebastian’s push wasn’t satisfying.
Lady Ivy Kinley is popular among her peers, so beautiful and rich. She was so famous that men set her up as a wager among themselves in a gentlemen club as an objective game as who can withstand the charms of Lady Ivy and snag the woman in marriage considering she is a countess herself and many men were eager for her fortune. Of course her popularness turned twofold when an admirer of her, Lord Timothy Garrette ended up dead.
Lord Sebastian Cain believes Ivy is responsible for his cousin, Timothy’s death. His revenge was to make Ivy fall for him and abandon her. He has come to ruin her which would also provide an amusement pursuit for society. He was cruel and his hardened heart held no room for pity.
Sebastian first met Ivy when she was twelve-year-old as one defiant, awkward daughter with horrid manners. Where he thought she would be plum and ugly he didn’t expect her to grow and become uncommonly beautiful with proper manners. Ivy is wary of Sebastian at first, she knows he doesn’t like her considering his cousin commited suicide because of her. Her self-preservation keeps telling her to run but she found impossible to resist Sebastian when he looked her as if he wants to devour her. Sebastian unwittingly falls for her which makes his conscience hard to ruin her. She is sweet and gentle, not shallow as he expected her to be. The revenge pursuit was awesome, I like how Sebastian was battling his feelings for Ivy who took a chance on him believed him to pursue her because he likes her. His cruel and aggressive behaviour is expected mostly because of the time period the story is told and it should be. But Ivy was expected not a virgin and forgiving him for all the wrongs he has done so easily kind of lost all the story-thrill. I know a hero from historical period is demanding and unjustly in many circumstances compared to modern times, but it would be more exciting if the heroine is stubborn and has more guts to fight before she loses to the hero. It’s satisfying actually.
I enjoyed the story. It has it’s ups and downs. I would still recommend this book but just be warned the hero is cruel and the heroine is kind of weak.
An addictive regency love story based on revenge, turns into an obsessive love. Sebastian and Ivy were intriguing and complicated characters, I almost loathed him but he was redeemable and they finally got to their happy ending. The book could have been shorter, but all in all a gripping love story by April Moran.
Holy freaking moly, April! This book had me twisted in knots in the best way possible! I seriously wanted to crawl inside the pages and immerse myself in Sebastian and Ivy’s tumultuous world.
I loved it even though I loved/hated almost every character until the end. So very, very well done, lady!
I will start out by saying that I really enjoyed to story and the supporting characters! Our heroine, Ivy was just too weak for my liking, even tough she was a kind person and I kept wishing throughout the whole book that she would kick Sebastian to the curb. Our hero and I use the term loosely, Sebastian was only out for revenge and even when he found his reasons for that to be in error, he became beyond obsessive. I wanted to like them as a couple but honestly it took a long time and the book was very long – I finally enjoyed them in the last couple of chapters of the book. I wanted to give this a 3.5 but rounded it up to 4.
Taming Ivy was a perfect Enemies to Lovers story!
I so enjoyed all of the angst filled drama that was Sebastian & Ivy!
And! There’s a book 2!
The Untamed Duke