A review by jackiehorne
The Rake's Daughter by Anne Gracie

3.0

Enjoyable, if conventional, Regency from stalwart Gracie. A new Earl discovers that he's been saddled with the guardianship of a 20-year-old heiress—and her illegitimate sister. And of course he finds said illegitimate sister stunningly attractive... The best part of the novel is the relationship between Isobel and Clarissa, the two sisters, one legitimate, one illegitimate, especially the opening prologue. Not much plot here, the character development is rather lacking, and improbable behavior goes unremarked (for example, Isobel, who, along with her sister, was raised in the countryside, without any education or even exposure to conventional society, somehow fits in quite well to the ton when she arrives in London). Pleasurable, if not at all memorable.