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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
New favorite author! Loved this book about a “spinster wallflower* Calli who has pined for all the freedoms & privileges men were afforded. Tired of being on the shelf & not living, she makes a list of things she’d like to do. And the first item kicks off a fun, rocky romance with a notorious rake, Ralston. Loved this story! Already planning on reading the other two in this trilogy.
I had so much fun with this book, I loved Lady Calpurnia and her Rake, Gabriel. This is a new author for me and I adored her writing. There were laugh out funny parts, great smexytimes and some that were rip your heart out, smash it up and hand it back to you moments. And lets not forget - 9 things that ladies should never do - even if they are confirmed spinsters! I've got book 2 & 3 in this series waiting for me at home and I am thoroughly looking forward to getting stuck into them.
I don't often read regency, I have been more lately, the last ARRC has encouraged me to try more, so in all honesty I don't know how accurate it is in a 'regency' sense, but really when I'm enjoying a book this much, I just don't care :)
Not only did I enjoy the two main characters, I like the supporting cast, I'm hoping St John & Benedict, Gabriel/Callie's brothers, both get their own books. And even moreso I would absolutely LOVE IT if Anne, Callie's maid/helper lady got her own book. Callie's mother, although you didn't see her much, reminded me of Mrs. Bennett, with her almost volcanic excitement about upcoming marriages.
All in all this was a fantastic romp through the regency era, and a place that I'd love to return to.
I don't often read regency, I have been more lately, the last ARRC has encouraged me to try more, so in all honesty I don't know how accurate it is in a 'regency' sense, but really when I'm enjoying a book this much, I just don't care :)
Not only did I enjoy the two main characters, I like the supporting cast, I'm hoping St John & Benedict, Gabriel/Callie's brothers, both get their own books. And even moreso I would absolutely LOVE IT if Anne, Callie's maid/helper lady got her own book. Callie's mother, although you didn't see her much, reminded me of Mrs. Bennett, with her almost volcanic excitement about upcoming marriages.
All in all this was a fantastic romp through the regency era, and a place that I'd love to return to.
-- A Romantic Book Affairs Review
I started this book a month or more ago. Read to somewhere in the 50's page-wise... And it didn't really capture my interest. It could've been a mood I was in, or maybe the three pages dedicated to a rehashing and romanticizing of The Odyssey. Which felt like filler. Not sure, but it didn't work for me then.
I decided to pick it up again the other day and skimmed through the parts I'd already read, then began in earnest. And what I read was fantastic!
The tasks Callie sets up for herself, the way in which she goes about completing them, how Ralston gets himself tangled in it as well... It was highly entertaining. An excellent plot for the characters to work within.
Who would have thought a fencing match could make your blood boil? Or a game of vingt-et-un could be so scandalous?
It was delightful watching Callie and Ralston complete each task on her list, and the romance that bloomed as a result. MacLean took taverns, gentleman's clubs, and gambling dens and turned them into the most romantic places.
Loved it!
I started this book a month or more ago. Read to somewhere in the 50's page-wise... And it didn't really capture my interest. It could've been a mood I was in, or maybe the three pages dedicated to a rehashing and romanticizing of The Odyssey. Which felt like filler. Not sure, but it didn't work for me then.
I decided to pick it up again the other day and skimmed through the parts I'd already read, then began in earnest. And what I read was fantastic!
The tasks Callie sets up for herself, the way in which she goes about completing them, how Ralston gets himself tangled in it as well... It was highly entertaining. An excellent plot for the characters to work within.
Who would have thought a fencing match could make your blood boil? Or a game of vingt-et-un could be so scandalous?
It was delightful watching Callie and Ralston complete each task on her list, and the romance that bloomed as a result. MacLean took taverns, gentleman's clubs, and gambling dens and turned them into the most romantic places.
Loved it!
This was such a great book! Callie and Gabriel's story made me want to go out and have my own adventures! I was ecstatic to find out that it is actually part of a series! I definitely can't get enough of these characters!
Definitely a good addition to the Regency romance genre. If you like the genre, you will like it. If you don't, you won't.
i liked it enough to give 4 stars but i have kinda problem with sarah maclean's books that it often happens that characters say they can't love each other, then having heated moment, then running away from them, then realizing they actually love other person and running more to say it and all of this is just very tiring to read it sometimes.