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kathflynn's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
language_loving_amateur's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Death of parent and Kidnapping
bettybumpkins's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting premise that that started hot, but seemed forced at the end.
writer595's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
crystalroses68's review against another edition
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lumbermouth's review
4.0
Maybe if I now reread book 7, which I rated "who will save us from the fragile egos of men," I would enjoy it more, or maybe not. I enjoyed the relationship of Gareth and Felicity, but the "oh no we could never marry or admit our feelings, it would not do" was laid on a bit thick.
veronian's review
1.0
This has got to be one of the more confusing and incomprehensible plots in romance I've come across
bananatricky's review against another edition
3.0
The story of Gareth and Felicity. Well this explains why I had no blinking idea who Gareth and Felicity were in one of the previous books! It kind of spoils the story (even though we all know it's inevitable) when you have already seen the couple happily married in a previous book in the series.
There was nothing wrong with the book per se. It's just the hoary old chestnut of a young noblewoman down on her luck inheriting a brothel from a distant cousin, on the proviso that she is taught the business by Gareth, Marquess Heathgate. Poor Gareth succeeded to the title on the sudden death of FIVE close relatives in a boating accident - yep, highly suspicious! Suddenly elevated from a plain mister to the peerage amid scandal and gossip around the deaths of his father, grandfather, uncle and elder brother (I forget who the other one was)he has become a notorious rake.
So the story was well-explained and made sense but I found the concept a bit hackneyed - if someone with half a brain had none of the angst would have ensued.
Also, and I know this is heresy to readers of historicals, I am bored, bored, bored of these men speaking in such a melodramatic way.
There was nothing wrong with the book per se. It's just the hoary old chestnut of a young noblewoman down on her luck inheriting a brothel from a distant cousin, on the proviso that she is taught the business by Gareth, Marquess Heathgate. Poor Gareth succeeded to the title on the sudden death of FIVE close relatives in a boating accident - yep, highly suspicious! Suddenly elevated from a plain mister to the peerage amid scandal and gossip around the deaths of his father, grandfather, uncle and elder brother (I forget who the other one was)he has become a notorious rake.
So the story was well-explained and made sense but I found the concept a bit hackneyed - if someone with half a brain had
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read the will carefullyAlso, and I know this is heresy to readers of historicals, I am bored, bored, bored of these men speaking in such a melodramatic way.