The Devil Who Tamed Her

Ophelia Reid is an incomparable beauty with a reputation for starting rumors and spreading them. Having purposely wrecked her engagement to Duncan MacTavish, a future marquis, which her social-climbing father arranged, Ophelia wants to return to London's marriage mart and make herown choice of a wealthy husband. But on her journey home, somethingunexpected happens....

The heir to a dukedom, Raphael Locke, Viscount Lynnfield is -- in spite of his disinterest in marriage -- the most sought-after young lord in England. He instantly disliked Ophelia when she caused a scandal to avoid marriage to his friend MacTavish, but having comforted her in a tearful moment, he begins to wonder if she's not all bad. So when MacTavish claims that Ophelia will never be anything but a spiteful beauty, Rafe bets his friend that he can turn her into a kindhearted lady who will one day make a good match, just not with him.

With her parents' blessing, Rafe commandeers Ophelia's coach and whisks her -- chaperoned, of course -- to his remote estate in the countryside. There, as he tries to show his furious, sharp-tongued "guest" the error of her ways, he discovers the surprising reasons for her bad behavior. Soon his daily lessons with Ophelia take effect and he finds himself irresistibly attracted to her. When Rafe champions the new and improved Ophelia's re-entry to London society, marriage proposals pour in. Only then does Rafe start to wonder whether he hasn't gone and fallen in love with Ophelia himself.

Wondrously romantic, passionate, and delightfully humorous, The Devil Who Tamed Her is proof positive why Johanna Lindsey is among the most widely read and best-loved authors of our time.

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Don't buy this!!, 2008-11-21
This was just a hands down lousy book. She was trying too hard (and unsucessfully) to fit a square into a hole with her unimaginative plot theme. It was utterly awful!!! If you read The Heir, you know exactly where she yanked these two characters from. In The Heir, Ophelia was a very well developed character and In The Devil who Tamed Her, all of a sudden her bad behavior is explained away.. (VERY badly and in such an unbelievable way) and.. tada! new character we can all love and embrace.. I don't think so.. and.. she ruined Rafe too by turning him into an idiot..
Her books have been really disappointing lately but for the most part she has written some really good books worth reading so I'm not giving up on her yet!
If you have to read this book to find out on your own how bad it is then please.. borrow it or buy it used instead


0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Bad in all the right ways?, 2008-10-08
Yes, it's fluff. It's not a particularly original novel, nor are the characters anything special. In fact, the heroine is a little annoying. The male lead is okay, and the supporting cast is lackluster at best. And yet... I found myself unable to put the book down. The writing style is very fluid and easy to read. The story moves along well and drags you with it. There's just something that works and kept me amused.

Still, it's not a book I'd recommend for anyone but a romance enthusiast. It's trite and cheesy and utterly predictable. I dare say it sends all sorts of bad messages, if you delve that deeply into it. But if you read it for a little bit of mindless escapism, I say it's just the thing.

I'd like to give it two separate ratings: four stars to people who enjoy romance novels, and two stars to people who aren't crazy about the genre. The closest I can do is average the two, hence the three stars.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Never Wrong, 2008-09-19
You can never go wrong with Johanna Lindsey and the very low price I paid for this Hardcover book made it well worth it.


0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

seriously sad, 2008-09-12
i really am fond of Johanna Lindsey's writing - having just discovered her a couple of years ago i've hunted down everything she wrote in the historical romance genre. asides from a couple of not-so-good books she is just fantastic; so what in the world happened with this book?
The Devil Who Tamed Her follows directly after The Heir which is one of my favorites. The Heir is lively and amusing, sexy and enthralling; a book that grips you to the end. The Ophelia of The Heir is not the Ophelia of The Devil Who Tamed Her. It was like a complete 360. We go from loving to hate the snooty, beautiful Ophelia to having her be the tragic herione whom we are supposed to identify with? it doesn't make any sense; all of a sudden she's this misunderstood, compassionate person who's really a good person she's just had a rough childhood. i mean, whuh?
the whole story is just something that should not have been written in the first place, or at least Ophelia should have retained her fiesty disdain for people like she did in The Heir. its like in this story she's a completely different person, or like someone else wrote the story. the characters just seem to be completely opposite from how they were written in The Heir and the result is terrible.
its just not a well written story from a usually awesome writer.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

where is sabrina lambert?, 2008-08-12
i recognize the charaters from a previous book, called the heir, in which Duncan and a girl named Sabrina had wed. Whats he doing being engaged to someone else. someone please write me and explain what had happened.

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