To Wed A Wicked Earl

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Internet Explorer (IE) is not the only game in town for browsing the web anymore. There are now numerous more viable selections for web browsers. I have not so long ago tried a few and I want to share with you my experience. Until I started out investigating substitute browsers I thought that Firefox was the be all and end all of tabbed browsing. While it seems to be the frequent bearer, there are a few other choices out there. In portion one of this article I will be talking about Mozilla Firefox and IE.

Let’s commence with Firefox. I have been using this as my necessary browser for a number of years and it has performed particularly well. It has a wide potpourri of choices for customization, a few of which I use regularly such as forecast fox, fire ftp and download status bar. There are a few others that I am intrigued by and will in all likelihood try at a great deal of point in the near future. Overall, I find Firefox to be fast, secure, stable and very easy to use. The one complaint that I have is that it uses a lot of resources and if you have a lot of tabs open and don’t reboot regularly, it will freeze up and need to be forcibly stopped and restarted. This is a minor annoyance that does not take place often.

Internet Explorer has been lagging behind in the browser market but at last has gotten it is act together – to a degree – with the release of IE7. I say to a degree because it is only available to users with XP SP2 or Vista. The other browsers function commonly on older versions of Windows as well as most flavors of Linux. Some changes that were made did help make this browser more secure but rather of leaping in front of all of it is competitors, it scarcely caught up. The engineering science applied to render web pages has not changed substantially since IE4 so the other browsers that are cited here are still a little faster. A lot of the changes made in IE7 are cosmetic – Microsoft saw fit to move the command bar from the left to the right of the screen. Don’t ask why or what intention that serves because I haven’t the foggiest.

Having said that, if you watch any TV shows online, IE seems to be the best option. I don’t believe that this is due to it’s superiority as a browser, but rather the laziness of the developers and their unwillingness to the right way test and make sure that their content is compatible with other browsers. Next on the list is Opera. In share two of this article I will touch on this little gem, as well as Avant and Safari.

He’s on the hunt for a bride . . .

Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife—immediately!—or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he’s lusted after—and loved—for years. It’s rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte Greene would never consent to be the blushing bride of a rogue . . . or so he thinks.

Charlotte believes that the earl, the only man whose touch leaves her trembling, would never want a woman like her. Weary of her wallflower ways, Charlotte decides that a friendship with the earl just might give her the excitement she desires. Keeping their true sensations hidden, she and Adam plan a sham ceremony to placate the dowager. But when the “marriage of convenience” takes an unexpected turn, will Charlotte and her wicked earl in the long run disclose their irresistible, unforgettable love—and delight in a lifetime of passion?

ReviewMs. Parker has written a delightful read with sparkling characters, specially Charlotte. She is a riot with her witty and clever conversations with herself. Then add the dialog amid Charlotte and Adam and a more or less nutty grandmother and you have a winning combination. (Fresh Fiction )

You’d be absurd to miss this book! (Rakehell Productions )

TO WED A WICKED EARL is an engaging and charming Regency historical romance. Light, frothy, and humorous, TO WED A WICKED EARL sparkles. (Romance Readers Connection )

TO WED A WICKED EARL is a charming, fun read that kept me up various nights. The secondary characters add humor as do numerous of the situations in which the hero and heroine are embroiled. (Romance Reviews Today )

A pair of appealing, rather improbable protagonists ultimately sort things out in this sexy, funny title that resolves things a bit too neatly but is still delightfully agreeably diverting (Library Journal )

Parker’s characters are so endearing and the sexual tension so high that readers will be enraptured by the second installment of her Bride Hunt Ball series. (Romantic Times BOOKclub )

“Utterly charming.” (NYT bestselling author Julia Quinn )

About the Author

At eight years old, Olivia Parker wrote her introductory romance with a fat red marker. It made one’s eyes injure to read it, but it did have a tortured hero. Since then, she’s devoted her attempts to bettering her craft (now using pencils) and divides her time among her love of writing, reading, and relaxing with her family. She presently resides in northern Ohio with her husband, three children, a border collie, and a cockatiel, who eats a worrisome amount of popcorn.

Most helpful customer reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
It was worth the wait!!!!
By tabbyannabel
Having read and loved, Olivia Parker’s debut book, At the Bride Hunt Ball, I was eagerly awaiting her latest offering and I was not disappointed. I loved, loved, loved Lord Rothbury. He was humourous and sweet and romantic and arrogant and vulnerable and kind despite having a bad reputation. Having read the whole book, I understood why he acted as he had and why he felt that Charlotte would never marry him.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it was funny and entertaining. The romance felt genuine and the relationship between Rothbury and Charlotte wasn’t rushed, but grew as the book went on. I finished the book feeling happy and cannot wait for the next book by the author, Lady Rosalind’s story, perhaps?

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointed after long wait
By Texan Reader
I was eagerly awaiting this book after the author’s first work, Bride Hunt Ball. Even the premise of the story sounded intriguing, and the day I got it I couldn’t wait to pick it up. Unfortunately, I really had a hard time actually getting all the way through the story. While the concept was good, the execution was poor and the characters hard to like. The plot was weak, but what I really struggled with were all the jumps the author made in the story’s time line. The first chapter was great, but then the second chapter jumped to a year later, and the third to a few months after that. Then the fourth to a week or so after that. It honestly felt as if the author wrote four starts to the book and then mashed them together. The characters seemed to change, especially the heroine. She seemed sweet and shy at the beggining, but then quickly had the nerve to break into the hero’s house. She only knew of the hero’s horrible reputation, but pushed all that aside pretty quickly to be his friend. However, we were never given the chance to see how their friendship developed. The author just does a time jump in between chapters and throws in a sentences describing a few meetings between them. The chapters that are actually consistent in a time sequence are pretty good, I just wish that their changing relationship had been more focued throughout the book so that we could really discover and see its development between the two charachters more fully.

I was really disappointed after waiting so long for this book. It had the potential to be really great, and I found it fairly mediocre. I wanted so much to like the characters, but I think I ended up liking the idea of the author’s story rather than what the author actually wrote. The book was to disjointed for me to see a clear progression of their romance.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Could have been great…left me angry
By Anne in VA
The plot was good. Writing…not so good. I was disappointed with how little the author shows growth in the relationship between main characters. Like another reviewer said, the story kept jumping over months at a time. I HATED the fact that we never get to see how they first met and why the hero ever fell in love with the heroine. All we know is that from the get go he’s loved her for years…why? How did they meet? When did he know he loved her? We never find this out. I kept thinking every time I turned the page that she would explain SOMETHING, but it never happened. I think the thing that makes me the most angry with this book was that it was such a waste. It really could have been a great book–really great.

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