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| Jack of Clubs (The House of Cards Trilogy, Book 2) | 
| Author: Barbara Metzger
Publisher: Signet Eclipse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 96377
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451218051
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780451218056
ASIN: 0451218051
Publication Date: March 7, 2006
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Product Description
Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.
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 jACK OF CLUBS August 7, 2008
I ENJOYED THE BOOK VERY MUCH AND I HOPE THE READ MORE BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR.
enjoyable but... August 29, 2007
Overall I enjoyed the book. It was funny, and the chemistry between the characters was steamy without being trashy. I like a regency romances that expand my vocabulary- it makes me feel like reading romances isn't totally wasting my brain. I did feel that the story dragged a little in the middle, and based on other regencies I've read, I think they didn't emphasize enough how beyond the pale it would have been for him to open the Red and Black and at the same time they over emphasized her expectation of still being treated like a lady after becoming a governess. Also some of the exchanges felt too modern.
Still the pluses out numbered the minuses.
Not her best but Metzger's second rate June 11, 2007
is still my idea of a wonderful time.
The only thing that might keep it from my keeper shelf was the heroine. I got tired of her harping about her Good Name and not being seen with the hero so that her reputation might be preserved. She came across as a ninny. I didn't see what Jack found attractive....She did redeem herself slightly by dealing well with Harriet the demon child and later on, she's less of a pill. I almost put it down, which never happens with Metzger.
But the hero, the secondary characters the fun of the Metzger style make it worth the money.
Very Enjoyable Read January 24, 2007
Maybe it's because I've read so much pap lately, but when I chanced upon this book, I was delighted. Bright, literate dialogue laced with laugh-out-loud humor, a heroine who stayed in character and was not prototypically gorgeous, and lots of side characters with personality plus - including a child patterned after several I recall from my teaching days. The story line stands alone just fine; I have not read the book's predecessor. Metzger is an author who "gets" the difference between sex and sexy, too, and that fact alone should propel her to the top of the contemporary historical romance list. Check out my Amazon list of favorite historical romance novels and you'll find I just added this book to it.
 ....partially written August 11, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is lighthearted and a slightly humorous regency.
Although the writing and storyline had me reminiscing about the kind of books that I would have found very interesting when I was in middle school, I still enjoyed the lightness of it.
No strong plot, most of the storyline was dealing with the reputation of a gentle bred woman and her relationship with a debaucher.
Don't expect any hidden secrets or dark past.
There were neither intriguing aspects in the novel nor emotional palpitations to make you not want to put the book down. As a matter of fact it was needlessly easy for me to skim through pages at a time because the same thoughts were repeated over and over again from chapter to chapter. I didn't know how many times or in how many ways one could lament about a soiled reputation.
All in all, because I have enjoyed Ms Metzger's work in the past and I'm a little partial to her I'll rate this book 3 stars. I'm also in no hurry nor do I care to read about the lost Endicott Sister in the last book of the trilogy. But since I do own the book in my library, hopefully when I have no other choice I just might oblige myself.
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