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is a Rogue
Bookin the Wallflowers vs Rogues Series
Rating:rogueish!!!
Thank you to the author/publisher for the ARC given through NetGalley for review.
All opinions are my own,
Love is a Rogue kicks off what will be an amazing series, A series where we will have some selfproclaimed wallflowers who will tame some rogues with their love,
I really enjoyed this first book, Beatrice and Ford were such likable characters, I really liked both of their personalities, I tend to usually lean towards liking more either the hero or the heroine,
I liked how Beatrice fought her feelings for Ford since the very beginning, She tried every word in her knowledge to describe what she felt for him, Their bantering was so sweet and hot, Ford enjoyed pushing her buttons, but I'm glad he did because it made her admit that she was attracted to him.
Ford was one sexy, sweet rogue, I love that he flirted with Beatrice and said the most sweetest things to her, I especially liked that once he realized her passion for words he was her number one supporter in all that she wanted to accomplish.
Ford was what she needed to build up her confidence and stand up to those that didn't believe in her.
She at the same time showed him that love and stability can bring you happiness,
I look forwards to the rest of the series!!! this one PLEASANTLY surprised me, it's an overall uplifting and feelgood historical romance about a bookish/nerdy girl who was born with palsy and has been sheltered by her mother ever since.
Her mother is stifling and overbearing and rude most of the times but plow through it because the sweet romance between our heroine and our gruff commoner hero is so good.
Our hero has some lineage/broken family issues but he likes the simple life of being a carpenter and repairing the book shop she inherited.
I just really enjoyed it!!!
I ALSO REALLY ENJOYED THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN THIS ONE!! Just getting around to reviewing this read.
I've read another series by Lenora Bell and thought it was a good read, So when I saw this story and some of the reviews, I thought it would be worth the read and received a copy from a club friend to get a chance to do so.
Unfortunately, not sure what the hype was and I read it twice since the time I received it but still it was lacking and just okay.
Sad to give this one aStars but it just didn't appeal to me although like I said, I read it twice to confirm my thoughts.
Hopefully others in this series are better, I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review, This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review,
He was the most maddening of men,
Lady Beatrice Bentley only wants to spend her time isolated and writing her etymology dictionary but the carpenter renovating her brother's mansion keeps interrupting her with noise and his manly physique.
Stamford Wright is normally a ships carpenter for the Royal Navy but is stepping in to help his father.
He can't help but tease and tweak the Duke's sister's nose as she acts like a princess locked in a tower.
When Beatrice promises to give her mother one more season to try and marry her off, she's off to London and ready to leave the carpenter who gives her such confusing feelings.
However, Ford has discovered the Duke's land agent is embezzling and has to get in contact with the Bentley family again.
There he gets press ganged by a group of lady nonknitters and hopelessly entangled with Beatrice,
The attention she was lavishing on the books made him feel restless and, . . jealous
Beatrice was a character that definitely was supposed to connect with booklovers, our introduction has her constantly spouting lines about how much she loves words and books.
Beatrice has Palsy, which caused the right side of her face to droop, a doctor recommended when she was younger that she read the dictionary out loud to exercise those facial muscles.
Hence, her love of words, because she thought if she couldn't be pretty she overheard her mother and father bemoaning her looks she at least could be smart.
In this regard, her character felt a bit overdone, after awhile it felt like an A, I. had written the passages after sourcing tons of “booklover” lines and references,
Ford would do everything in his power to help her win this battle,
Although he was probably going to regret it,
Ford had cute moments with his teasing but for the first half of the book he definitely came off as a young twentyfive year old there was something too light and silly about his posturing as a scoundrel.
He's sensitive to the fact that Beatrice is a Duke's sister and he is way below her class level because his mother was disowned by her father for marrying below her station.
When Beatrice inherits a bookstore and it turns out that the grandfather that disowned his mother and him wants the property, he declares he's Beatrice's carpenter to renovate and joins in the battle to keep the property from his grandfather's clutches.
It's a bit coincidental but easy enough to go along with to keep Beatrice and Ford together,
What was it about this prim, bookish lady that ripped his resolve to shreds like a gale tearing at a canvas sail
The beginning held promise with Ford teasing and Beatrice shyly responding but I never felt their emotions and relationship gain any depth in the middle.
It started to feel like these two were just spouting lines at each other instead of interacting or playing off one another.
Beatrice eventually proposes that they become limited time lovers, she still wants to be a spinster and he's still going to be off sailing.
I'm not sure I would call this move forced but it felt like a mechanism to simply add some sex scenes, instead of a development to or in their relationship.
Their attraction just never developed any depth for me and I missed that emotion that pulls me into a couple's story.
She wanted to be close to him and she felt no shame about it.
Beatrice belonged to a group called Mayfair Ladies Knitting League, where no knitting is actually done but the members work and support each other towards their goals and achievements, it's why she wants to keep the bookstore, to turn it into a clubhouse.
Two of her close friends, Isobel and Viola, are members and highlighted in the story, obviously to entice for future books in the series.
There are a couple quick scenes with the ladies together but I would have liked more interactions that delved into their relationships.
There's a very small side plot about a hidden meaning in the letter Beatrice's aunt left her but I honestly felt it was pointless and only added to the starting to feel overly long feeling the second half of the book started to get.
The ending felt hackneyed and a bit hokey with everyone getting gathered together and suddenly decades of villainy is stopped because of “love” and Beatrice and Ford get to be together a bit too easily.
This was light on the depth but booklovers will certainly see themselves in Beatrice and enjoy those sweet moments.
stars. i enjoyed it, but the feelings both between the mc and me to them were lacking, had potential tho. look at the way i didnt skim
right off the bat i liked this, the heroine was caught spying at the hero making out w another woman bcs her spectacle fell from the balcony
He dangled the spectacles closer to her.
“I
presume these are yours”
“Er , . . yes. I lost them while”trying to see down your trousers“watering the roses, ”
the plot is this
”Do you mean to tell me, Mrs, Kettle,” said Lady Beatrice, speaking very slowly and clearly, “that I have inherited some manner of , . . that is to say, a bookshop that secretly specializes in , . . ”
Ford waited for her to supply the words, She was an etymologist, after all, When she just stood there, her cheeks stained with pink and her lips pressed together, he came to her rescue.
“Obscene books. Naughty scribblings. Onehanded reads. ”
and wright/ford is there to help her rebuilt her bookshop or smth
”You must be thrilled to inherit this collection.
”
“Its like a dream, ” Her face fell. “But I cant possibly read all of them, It keeps me up at night sometimes, knowing that I cant read every book I own, An unread book is a terrible thing, You should see how many books are stacked beside my bed just waiting to be read, And I dont have time to read them all, ”
Her gaze caressed the books lovingly, “Dont worry, my beauties. Well patch the roof and keep the damp away from you and build you a nice safe home,” she crooned.
The attention she was lavishing on the books made him feel restless and , . . jealous
He was jealous of a bunch of old books, He must be losing his mind,
now as to why i liked this
“Im a logophile, a lover of words, as well as a bookdevouring bibliophile.
One might even say I suffer from bibliomania, Reading keeps the mind nimble and gives me fodder for my dictionary, Reading is my greatest pleasure in life, ”
Now that was just too easy, “Spoken like a lady who hasnt experienced real pleasures, ”
“Spoken like a rogue who doesnt read enough books, You could impress your sweethearts with a larger, more varied vocabulary at your disposal, ”
“My sweethearts are more impressed by the size of , . . other things. ”
She rolled her eyes,
”You make words come alive in a unique way, but I can think of hundreds of things more pleasurable than logophilia.
Kissing, for one. ”
“You mean osculation, the place where two curves or surfaces come into contact”
“I mean kissing.
” He dropped his gaze to her full pink lips, “What happens when lips meet, and converse, and learn a few things about each other, Wouldnt you agree that kissing might be slightly more pleasurable than archaic words”
She lifted her straight little nose so that her spectacles reflected his face.
“I would not. ”
“Spoken like a lady whos never been kissed, or not properly kissed, at least, ”
“Osculation could never be as thrilling as discovering a new word, ”
“Is that a challenge, Your Ladyship”
“Its a certainty, ”
Her mothers lectures on proper diet and etiquette for young ladies always made her want to eat everything in sight.
”My mate on the Angela”
“Will be handsomely remunerated, Get in the carriage, Wright, There are too many people staring at me, ”
“Its the bonnet. ”
“Just get in the blasted carriage!”
“Tuttut, Lady Beatrice, Such language. ” His grin was filled with devilry, “I never enter carriages with strange ladies, ”
She glared at him, “Youll want to hear my offer, I assure you, I cant force you into the carriage but my footmen could, ”
“Am I being kidnapped”
“Get, In. The. Carriage. ”
He laughed. “All right, all right. You win, princess. ”
the banter was the main reason i liked this obv but it realllyy still coulda been better.
u could say they felt like a contemporary couple set in historical time but what do i know, i havent read that many hr either
One thing he knew for certain: Lady Beatrice Bentley was trouble.
Flamehaired, nimblefingered, toolbeltwearing trouble,
She made him laugh, She was intelligent and talented,
She looked incredible in a tool belt,
But forbidden things were always alluring, And what was alluring as well was that she needed his help to best Foxton and keep this property.
Being her knight in sawdusty trousers was exhilarating,
overall : is it better than any HR ive dnfed not really, maybe not at all, but it was easier for me to get into ford amp beatrices story, both characters didnt feel so prim and proper wtf right its clear its HR wth did i expect lmaoo i liked em enough This was very fun, light hearted, low angst.
Very sweet romance with a nod to beauty and the beast,.stars
sitelinkLove Is a Rogue was an enjoyable historical romance by sitelinkLenora Bell, even if it didn't keep my attention as much as I was hoping it would.
I read a lot of historical romance, and I'm always on the hunt for MCs who are a little different.
I loved how we got a female MC with a facial palsy, as it's fairly rare to see a female MC with any sort of physical "imperfections.
" We get roguishly scarred male MCs, but in a female MC Super rare, I know people who have permanent paralysis from Bell's Palsy, so I could exactly picture Beatrice, I loved that the author added that detail to her story,
There was a bit of instalust, which was meh for me, and I thought the overall chemistry suffered a bit because of it.
I like things to grow slowly over time, However, I enjoyed Beatrice's intrepid group of friends a great deal, and Beatrice herself was an interesting character, so that made up for a lot of imperfections in the story.
The plot was a little meandering for me, and had a few too many details that stretched my imagination.
I wanted the oppositesattract romance to work, but I didn't really see these two as a couple, longterm.
They bantered a good deal, but it didn't solidify into a stable romance for me, and their differences in society seemed vast and not fully addressed.
A nice romance with some unique characters, I think I wanted to like sitelinkLove Is a Rogue more than I did.
However, I would certainly move on with the series and see what else this author has in store for me.
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