If You Deceive (The MacCarrick Brothers, Book 3) | 
| Author: Kresley Cole
Publisher: Pocket
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416503617
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416503613
ASIN: 1416503617
Publication Date: May 22, 2007
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Burning vengeance...Ethan MacCarrick was a heartbreakingly handsome rake until a powerful nobleman ordered him brutally beaten and his face scarred for a crime he didn't commit. Ethan's reprisal -- bankrupting the nobleman and forcing his exile -- does little to appease his wrath. Ten years later, a haughty, mysterious beauty enchants Ethan -- the daughter of his enemy. At last, Ethan will have the revenge he's craved; he'll promise her marriage, seduce her, then cast her aside. Bitter hardships... When Madeleine van Rowen's family was suddenly plunged into destitution and dishonor, she steeled herself against further heartache. She never weakened, never trusted, until a towering, scarred Highlander relentlessly pursues her, breaking down her defenses. At what price forgiveness? The passion between them burns hotter than Ethan's fury, and soon he finds he can't let her go. But when Madeleine uncovers the truth about him, can Ethan convince her to accept all he now offers -- when he once destroyed everything she had?
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 Delicious October 10, 2008
Ethan MacCarrick is absolutely one of my most favorite heroes of all the romance novels that I have read. He is scarred, angry, ravishingly handsome, and completely in love with the daughter of the woman who caused him to get the scar that has changed his life. Madeline Van Rowen is a heroine that you can't help but love, especially since she isn't the prim and proper, rich and devoted heiress that we usually find in most historical romance novels. She has lived a hard life, which is very easy to appericiate since there are very few woman who live an almost perfect life.
I found this story line very compelling it kept me wanting more, and there was a twist that I wasn't expecting towards the end of the novel. I strongly recommend this book. It was my favorite out of the MacCarrick brothers trilogy, but I don't think you should read the novels out of order. Each can stand on its own, but each book references the one(s) prior to it, so to keep it from spoiling anything you should read them in order. :)
Dont read this in public....;) August 15, 2008
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I have never felt the need to write review before...but "If You Deceive" is too beautiful to pass by. the last time i cried so hard was when i read once and always by judith mcnaught...and i still think this is better:)
 Pretty good, but choppy. July 23, 2008
This romance was pretty good, not bad, but it had some problems. The first fifty pages are very choppy and you won't know what on earth is going on unless you have read the first two books in the series. I had no clue who people were and why they were stalking some girl named Jane when the heroine of the story was named Madeline. Lots of stupid plot twists led me to almost give up & put the book down permanantly, but luckily I stuck with it (and went back & re-read the first pages again so I could try and piece together the prior story). Once Ethan got to Paris & started trying to convince Madeline to marry him, I got into the story. It was sweet & romantic watching an emotionally repressed alpha-male trying to deal with his emotions for Maddy and fall in love with her. The constant threat of her finding out that he had ruined her family and thrown her into dire poverty in the slums of Paris was intriguing and added some spice to their romance. Maddy is wonderful! She's brave, sassy, smart & unwilling to give up one iota of her independence. She has Ethan by his metaphorical nose--truly fun! So why didn't I give this book five stars? As you can probably predict, Maddy uncovers the secret towards the end of the book in a very clumsy and hard-to-believe way. Then, in a move that totally out of character, she rushes away back to her slum in Paris without confronting Ethan--yeah, right. Someone who's totally in-your-face and willing to stand up for herself suddenly becomes a wimp and ducks out with the man that singlehandedly destroyed her family. Uh, huh,maybe when pigs fly. The very end where Ethan finds her & redeems himself is a good save, but the choppy beginning and the dumb way the secret is revealed to Maddy soured it for me. Also, some of the sex is quite graphic for a book of this genre, unless you're into erotic fiction. I still highly recommend the book, but don't plan to read the other two because now that I know what happens to everyone in the end, I don't really care how they got there in the first place.
Defintely a keeper July 19, 2008
Wow!!! I read all three of the MacCarrick brothers book in a week and thought that no story could be better than Court's. I was wrong. Ethan's was the best. A hero who thought through his bad days and make a profound change in his life and our heroine's too. A wonderfully hopeful story about how we can get the past behind and move forward into a better life. I was moved.
If I were stranded on a desert island, I would want this one with me.
Captivating! July 9, 2008
I was in a very bad mood when I started reading this and although at first I thought this was too dark for the case, I actually found it engrossing and captivating. It managed to lift my mind of my troubles, which was exactly what I needed, when other lighter and funnier books sorely failed (that would be Lady Be Good).
The hero is a strong Scotsman, working for a spy network (not much action or spying exists in the story which I didn't mind at all since I'm no fun of the genre). The heroine is a gentlewoman, living in Paris and has no money at all. She is tough, strong, determined and clever. She is clever enough to suspect the handsome (though badly scarred), rich, scottish lord who asks her to marry him after spending just one night with him. As the reader knows, she is right to suspect him, since he starts out to get revenge from her because it was her parents that had him scarred. He may start out this way, but he slowly comes to care for her and becomes enchanted by her. To admit that he loves her is another story though...
It was certainly a fast paced book with tight plot and intriguing characters who acted as real persons and not idiots. I enjoyed reading it and it managed to grab my interest. I did not love it as many reviewers did since I did find the settings dark (the most part takes place in the slums of Paris) and the heroes spent too much time apart to make it a keeper.
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