mistressofroses 's review for:

The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett

2.0

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I just couldn't get into this as much as I wanted to. At first I thought I was going to like it a lot, but as Theo's narrative voice grew weaker and she quickly dissolved into another heroine who loves her father soooooo much despite being abandoned by him multiple times, his shaming of her sexuality having cost her the one person she loved...yeah, I just didn't buy it. The only thing keeping me reading for the last half of the book was to see if Huck would end up happy because he was the only thing worth reading about (he's not even in the climax because it's all about Daddy. Ugh.). The Lady Rogue is a great title, but it's just one a drunk Theo gives herself; and that probably tells you everything you need to know about this book--you wait for so long for that moment all of this is setting up for, and it just never gets there.