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    The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton

    By Stacy Reid

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    Beneath Lily Layton’s sweet and charming exterior beats the heart of a vixen—one with shocking and scandalous secrets and desires. But as a genteel lady, she confines her forbidden fantasies, like those about her employer’s devastatingly handsome son, to her diary…until she loses it.

    Oliver Carlyle, Marquess of Ambrose, has finally found the perfect wife, a woman who will not hide from his dark, carnal cravings. He just needs to figure out who she is. When he has a secret rendezvous with a mysterious stranger, suddenly he starts to believe she might be the author of the diary.

    He’s determined to find out who his mystery woman is…

    His biggest fear—and deepest fantasy—is she may be the one woman he cannot have.

    Each book in the Sweetest Taboo series is STANDALONE:
    * Sin and Ink by Naima Simone
    * Passion and Ink by Naima Simone
    * The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton by Stacy Reid

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 18, 2019
    ISBN9781640636101
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    Stacy Reid

    I am an avid reader of novels with a deep passion for writing. I especially love romance and adore writing about people falling in love. I live a lot in the worlds I create and I actively speak to my characters (out loud). I have a warrior way “never give up on my dream.” When I am not writing, I spend a copious amount of time drooling over Rick Grimes from Walking Dead, watching Japanese Anime and playing video games with my love. I also have a horrible weakness for Ice cream. :)

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    • 2/5
      I really like several books by this author, but this one was quite poor. I'm surprised that I've heard so many readers mention it (I'm thinking it must be like 90% just for the high steam). It seems like a first effort at writing, but I've read books by Reid that were published before this one that were much better. (Even if this *had* been written first and then set aside, I would still expect her later revisions to have improved it above this quality). The plot was laughable, the writing was sort of blundering, everything just seemed so amateur. It does have steam, and a lot of it, and I suppose that's its main selling point, but it's kind of sorry otherwise. The good news is that she's greatly improved from some of these early books!
    • 4/5
      I wish more people knew about Stacy Reid as she is becoming one of my favourite authors. Her books are interesting with good plots and full of heat.
    • 3/5
      This book was a little out there. In a roundabout way it is a love story. We have Mrs. Layton a widow who decided to keep a diary of all of her wanted thoughts. Her last husband was a vicar and constantly told her how she was wicked so Lily thought that her thoughts were wrong but she couldn't help her desires. She is working for Lady Ambrose and her son is gorgeous and she does have some scandalous thoughts about him. Lord Ambrose find this diary and sets out to find this woman, they have some secret liasons threw some secret passages in his home not knowing who the other was since it was dark. When he does find out who it is, he can't help but pursue her knowing that he could never marry her, she is not in his social circles but atlast love will conquer all and he wont care that he turns his mistress into his wife..There is some voyeurism involved..Rcvd an ARC at no cost to author..(netgalley) Voluntarily reviewed with my own thoughts and opinions.
    • 3/5
      This book was a little out there. In a roundabout way it is a love story. We have Mrs. Layton a widow who decided to keep a diary of all of her wanted thoughts. Her last husband was a vicar and constantly told her how she was wicked so Lily thought that her thoughts were wrong but she couldn't help her desires. She is working for Lady Ambrose and her son is gorgeous and she does have some scandalous thoughts about him. Lord Ambrose find this diary and sets out to find this woman, they have some secret liasons threw some secret passages in his home not knowing who the other was since it was dark. When he does find out who it is, he can't help but pursue her knowing that he could never marry her, she is not in his social circles but atlast love will conquer all and he wont care that he turns his mistress into his wife..There is some voyeurism involved..Rcvd an ARC at no cost to author..(netgalley) Voluntarily reviewed with my own thoughts and opinions.
    • 5/5
      Normally I choose the audiobooks, and while I did listen to this book, it was so wonderfully witty, smart and sexy that I will be revisiting it in book form just to delight in Lily and Oliver's delightful banter again. The Marquis' journey to discover the owner of the diary was truly scorching. Highly recommend.
    • 1/5
      It was a bit raunchy. I didn’t finish reading it. Bailed.

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    • 5/5
      The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton by Stacy ReidSimon Carlyle, 9th Marquess of Ambrose has found a diary that has him intrigued. He would LOVE to find the woman who wrote it as she seems made for him. He is in the market for a wife and wants to be true to her...but...he also wants to have a wife who will meet his needs...all of them. This book felt “of the times” and at times reminded me of the book Fanny Hill and yet with a bit more heat and better quality of writing. Clandestine meetings, couplings in the dark secret passages of an estate home, fantasies fulfilled and even though I felt this in some ways more fantasy than reality I truly did relate to Lily and Ambrose as they worked their way toward love and what that could and would mean to both of them with the differences in their stations and having to deal with a secret Lily was carrying.Did I enjoy this book? YesWould I read more in this series? YesWould I read more by this author? YesThank you to NetGalley and Entangled – Scorched for the ARC – This is my honest review. 5 Stars