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A review by mzdeb
The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan
2.0
Received a digital ARC from NetGalley.
Maybe wandering into the middle of this series didn't help, but some other people reading this series didn't seem as thrilled with the character development as well. It's always a tough sell when a character does a practical 180 from their usual character in previous books--especially when it rapidly devolves into what sounds like a bad porn flick the first quarter of the book. Reverse-engineering sexual tension from what's usually the near-apex of a typical Regency/Victorian-era story arc (now I know I've read too many of these--I used the word "apex") is always tricky. I might've given it another star if I had already known the other characters in this series; as a standalone it didn't work for me here.
Maybe wandering into the middle of this series didn't help, but some other people reading this series didn't seem as thrilled with the character development as well. It's always a tough sell when a character does a practical 180 from their usual character in previous books--especially when it rapidly devolves into what sounds like a bad porn flick the first quarter of the book. Reverse-engineering sexual tension from what's usually the near-apex of a typical Regency/Victorian-era story arc (now I know I've read too many of these--I used the word "apex") is always tricky. I might've given it another star if I had already known the other characters in this series; as a standalone it didn't work for me here.