Release date: December 29th, 2015
Series: Scandal & Scoundrel #1
Pages: 419
Genre: Historical romance
LADY SOPHIE'S SOCIETY SPLASH
The youngest of the infamous Talbot sisters scandalized society at the Liverpool Summer Soiree, striking her sister’s notoriously philandering husband and landing him backside-first in a goldfish pond. And we thought Sophie was the quiet one…
When she finds herself the target of very public aristocratic scorn, Sophie Talbot does what she must to escape the city and its judgment—she flees on the back of a carriage, vowing never to return to London…or to society. But the carriage isn’t saving her from ruin. It’s filled with it.
ROYAL ROGUE'S REIGN OF RAVISHMENT!
The Marquess of Eversley was espied descending a rose trellis—escaping an irate Earl and his once-future countess. No lady is safe from Eversley’s Engagement Ending Escapades!
Kingscote, the Marquess of Eversley, has never met a woman he couldn’t charm, a quality that results in a reputation far worse than the truth, a furious summons home, and a long, boring trip to the Scottish border. When King discovers stowaway Sophie, however, the trip becomes anything but boring.
WAR? OR MORE?
He thinks she’s trying to trick him into marriage. She wouldn’t have him if he were the last man on earth. But carriages bring close quarters, dark secrets, and unbearable temptation, and suddenly opposites are altogether too attractive…
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You have to know that I absolutely love reading historical romance. It's my guilty pleasure and I rarely ever give this genre a bad rating.
But this book ...
Do you ever pick up a book that you're fairly excited to read, but it turns out to be so annoying that you just can't wait to finish it and finally put it down and be over with it? Because this book was like that for me.
It started out really great and interesting, and I have to say this could be a very interesting story if it didn't start to drag on somewhere in the middle. This was my first issue; it became boring to me because nothing was happening anymore and we were moving in a circle.
The next thing that bothered me a lot were the characters. Sophie was alright for the most part, a little naive and stupid, but I overlooked that part because I was reading a historical romance and I kept reminding myself that.
King, however, was a different story. He annoyed me a lot because he was an ass to Sophie - unnecessarily so, especially at the end. No sorry could redeem that for me and I just wanted to smack his head.
All in all, this wasn't really a great read for me and I expected better from this author.
New York Times, Washington Post & USA Today bestseller Sarah MacLean is the author of historical romance novels that have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Sarah is a leading advocate for the romance genre, speaking widely on its place at the nexus of gender and cultural studies. A romance columnist and co-host of the weekly romance novel podcast, Fated Mates, her work in support of romance and the women who read it earned her a place on Jezebel.com's Sheroes list and led Entertainment Weekly to call her "the elegantly fuming, utterly intoxicating queen of historical romance." Sarah is a graduate of Smith College & Harvard University. She lives in New York City
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