Lord Savage

by Patricia Coughlin

Book Overview

She had eight weeks to tame a savage--and to fall in love. The request was impossible. Unthinkable. And unavoidable. Ariel Halliday couldn't refuse the head of Penrose School when he asked her to take... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553575201
• ISBN13: 9780553575200
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Romance at its best

I LOVED this book. I liked the premise, the sizzling tension between the characters and the good humor throughout. Patricia Coughlin writes with captivating detail. My only complaint is the hero's goofy name, Leon.

A wonderful read

This was a wonderful read-- warm, funny, passionate & romantic. I just loved Lord Savage and can't understand why anyone else wouldn't. Ariel and Leon are three dimensional characters with great chemistry, and Ariel's intelligence & compassion shine through. Leon is not only darkly brooding, but funny and kind. I laughed out loud while reading this book. I love the fact that Ariel's past & the question of her "innocence" does not take up the entire book. I for one am tired of pure-as-the-driven-snow heroines and appreciate the fact that Ms. Coughlin addresses some of the double standards facing men and women of the period-- and of our own.I wrote this review because I could not believe some of the negative reviews of one of my favorite stories. For a more in-depth look at the plot, please read Tina's review.

Not that bad. Room for improvement. Worth renting.

This is my 1st book by Ms. Coughlin but it won't be the last. Overall a light, engaging read. A couple of complaints: 1)The 2ndary cast of characters had lots of unexplored potential. 2)The story was good enough on its own without adding the barely-skimmed subplot about Ariel's so-called virginity. (Either delve deeper or don't mention it! Puh-lease!)

An Enjoyable Read!

I loved this book. Ms. Coughlin creates wonderful stories that you cannot put down. Ariel is a schoolteacher who must marry and while she is trying to work her wiles on the headmaster - whom she dislikes, by the way - she is asked to take on the mission of turning Leon (aka Lord Savage) into a proper English gentleman. To say she was coerced would not be correct because she felt compelled to help Leon from the moment she saw him half-naked and locked in a room with a window for visitors to gawk at him. She was worried that he'd be mistreated at the hands of someone else. Little did she know that the "savage" was already tamed and just waiting for the right time to pounce. Ariel struggled to teach manners and proper behavior to Leon all the while he pretended to not understand English. I don't believe Leon actually speaks for several of the first chapters. He is taken with Ariel's gentle ways and her kind attitude, not self-serving or high handed as the Englishmen who captured him treated him. He tried to fight his attraction to her by telling himself that she was just using him for her own purpose as well. She is taken with him as well, but unfortunately needs to marry someone quickly and feels that she could never aim for a marquis - savage or not. Although he does propose to her, she feels it lacked the emotion to back it up and she did not want to be married to him if she loved him but he did not feel the same for her. Leon realizes, almost too late, that he is in love with Ariel and that his love for her has turned him away from his original course of revenge.The fact that he was just as gentlemanly as the other Englishmen but was assumed to be a savage because he came from the Pacific Islands (Hawaii, to be exact) and was not raised in England just goes to show you the narrow minded and egotism of the English nobility of that time, as it is often portrayed to be.Lord Savage was funny, sweet and pretty light-hearted, in my opinion. Nothing too heavy or overly dramatic here. Ms. Coughlin's Merely Married is another must read.

I will look for more books by this author.

This was the first time to read a book by Patricia Coughlin. Lord Savage included delightful characters and a storyline that did not grow stale. I love authors with a sense of humor and will definitely look for more books by Ms. Coughlin.