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A review by gasoline_allie
Her Wicked Ways by Darcy Burke
4.0
Among romances, "Historical" is not my favorite subgenre. In particular, I'm typically bored by Recency romances, which usually feature rich, bored Dukes and Earls of the "indolent scoundrel" type and Ladies who are long-suffering in some way--past prime marrying age, escaped from brutal marriages, tainted by some long ago scandal, etc.
I think that's why I liked Her Wicked Ways so much. It's different, in a good way.
Here we have an untitled, desperately poor, heart-of-gold (though not above donning a highwayman's mask and robbing the rich) hero and a spoiled, snobby, scandalous-and-she-likes-it-that way heroine with daddy issues. See? Different. I liked how Miranda grew over the course of the story, and I flat liked everything about Fox. Yes, he's willing to compromise Miranda to make her marry him--ostensibly for his orphanage, but really all for himself. It may be the first selfish thing he's done.
This is also one of the few historical romances I've read were class is truly an Issue. (It deserves the capital I because it's a real, ugly, painful, nigh-insurmountable problem for them.) Miranda and Fox are in completely different social strata, and basically the whole world wants to keep them apart. I could eat that stuff up with a spoon.
I think that's why I liked Her Wicked Ways so much. It's different, in a good way.
Here we have an untitled, desperately poor, heart-of-gold (though not above donning a highwayman's mask and robbing the rich) hero and a spoiled, snobby, scandalous-and-she-likes-it-that way heroine with daddy issues. See? Different. I liked how Miranda grew over the course of the story, and I flat liked everything about Fox. Yes, he's willing to compromise Miranda to make her marry him--ostensibly for his orphanage, but really all for himself. It may be the first selfish thing he's done.
This is also one of the few historical romances I've read were class is truly an Issue. (It deserves the capital I because it's a real, ugly, painful, nigh-insurmountable problem for them.) Miranda and Fox are in completely different social strata, and basically the whole world wants to keep them apart. I could eat that stuff up with a spoon.