A review by brittanyt
The Devil Who Tamed Her by Johanna Lindsey
4.0
This is a book that I would highly recommend reading the first book (The Heir) in the series before reading this one (the second). In The Heir, Ophelia is just an all around horrible person to the heroine. Ophelia is the heroine in The Devil Who Tamed Her, so I was really interested to see how Lindsey would change my opinion about her!
The Devil Who Tamed Her begins with Rafe, Viscount Lynnfield, and Duncan MacTavish (hero from The Heir) making a bet about whether or not Ophelia can change. Rafe believes she can and Duncan believes she will be horrible forever. Rafe decides to kidnap her and take her to a secluded family estate, so he can reform her. What they discover is that Ophelia’s temper often gets the best of her, but engaging in stimulating activities helps her calm down.
I fully recognize there is a lot wrong with this book. That being said, I still loved it! Ophelia is bitter and angry. After hearing her back story, I understood why she was like that, but I still don’t think she needed the big reformation that Rafe was talking about. The underlying kindness was already there, she just needed to take down her defenses that she had built up at the age of eight! Obviously Lindsey was successful in changing my opinion about Ophelia, so every time Rafe would refer to her as a shrew, I wanted to thump him! Also, the bet...I’m a sucker for a bet, so I knew he would have to apologize at some point. Reflecting back, I don’t think he does! He has this way of spinning the bet like he was looking out for her best interest! Anyway, I did enjoy this book, I have lots of feelings about this book, and I love Johanna Lindsey (don’t we all)!
The Devil Who Tamed Her begins with Rafe, Viscount Lynnfield, and Duncan MacTavish (hero from The Heir) making a bet about whether or not Ophelia can change. Rafe believes she can and Duncan believes she will be horrible forever. Rafe decides to kidnap her and take her to a secluded family estate, so he can reform her. What they discover is that Ophelia’s temper often gets the best of her, but engaging in stimulating activities helps her calm down.
I fully recognize there is a lot wrong with this book. That being said, I still loved it! Ophelia is bitter and angry. After hearing her back story, I understood why she was like that, but I still don’t think she needed the big reformation that Rafe was talking about. The underlying kindness was already there, she just needed to take down her defenses that she had built up at the age of eight! Obviously Lindsey was successful in changing my opinion about Ophelia, so every time Rafe would refer to her as a shrew, I wanted to thump him! Also, the bet...I’m a sucker for a bet, so I knew he would have to apologize at some point. Reflecting back, I don’t think he does! He has this way of spinning the bet like he was looking out for her best interest! Anyway, I did enjoy this book, I have lots of feelings about this book, and I love Johanna Lindsey (don’t we all)!