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Romantic Regency romp

Niki Bruce

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Spy Wore Silk
Andrea Pickens (Warner Forever)

Wrapped rather lightly in a ‘spy thriller’ plot, The Spy Wore Silk is a historical romance with a very light touch of reality.

This is great escapism but with little to no substance.

Siena is the star pupil as a mysterious school for girls in Regency England.

Unlike other ‘Ladies Colleges’, Mrs Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies teaches martial arts, spying and seduction along with painting and dancing.

A secret government operation, the young ladies in question are girls who have been taken from the slums and brought up to spy for their country.

This implausible plot becomes less important as you move into the romance of the novel.

Siena is sent to a great country house to track down a possible traitor.

Naturally she finds herself terribly attracted to one of the possible suspects and the story just devolves from there.

What saves this book is the spritely language, the great sex scenes and suspension of disbelief.

Verdict: Summer reading at its lightest.

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