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Love Is a Rogue by Lenora Bell
5.0
✨Tale as old as time✨
This has to be my favorite historical Beauty and the Beast retelling so far! It was a loose reimagining which I really enjoyed, as some books along the same lines get a little too angsty for me. Love is a Rogue however was light and bookish and incredibly charming: Mrs. Kettle serving tea, Mr. Coggins brandishing a candlestick, Beastly Beatrice in love with obscure definitions, and library towers with single roses and sliding ladders. In true historical romance fashion, my favorite addition was its penchant for dirty books and filthy words.
I’m in love with both Beatrice and Ford as well as their love. I love their love okay! I admit it! I’m such a lush. They’re just so fricken fluffy and cute and I just want to dunk them in my coffee. The combination of bookshops and brawny shoulders and old words and trellises and romance novels is seriously intoxicating. This book is all of my favorite things proving why they’re my favorite things. It’s pretty cursive and old parchment and fairy lights in branchy trees and too-close waltzes danced in secret. A mood board of lovely things. But I think what really made it a great book was that it was also sexy and silly and full of surprises.
The sex scenes were light and fluffy too, but still substantial for the couple and story. Also by the time we got to the desk scene I forgot we were promised a desk scene so I was obviously overjoyed. Desk scenes are really just ~built~ different aren’t they. How many times am I going to write desk scene? As many as I very well please because ✨desk scenes✨ that’s why. Ravished by the wood methinks.
The conflict at the end was swift and we were rewarded with—what’s the answer class? That’s right—a desk scene (and others) so I say it was a win for all involved. I liked Beatrice’s final revelation about herself and I really liked how Ford was able to have one of his own. For reasons unbeknownst to me, the whole bookshop renovation was not listed on the back but it was such a fun part of the story!! All bookshops should be bawdy. I also really just love hot, sweaty men breaking (and then fixing) stuff.
I can’t wait for the next books in the series. With so many wallflowers added to the ranks, I think we’re going to be treated to a properly long series of happily ever afters and hunky love muffins. The acknowledgment section said this book was a love song to readers and it truly was.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5
This has to be my favorite historical Beauty and the Beast retelling so far! It was a loose reimagining which I really enjoyed, as some books along the same lines get a little too angsty for me. Love is a Rogue however was light and bookish and incredibly charming: Mrs. Kettle serving tea, Mr. Coggins brandishing a candlestick, Beastly Beatrice in love with obscure definitions, and library towers with single roses and sliding ladders. In true historical romance fashion, my favorite addition was its penchant for dirty books and filthy words.
I’m in love with both Beatrice and Ford as well as their love. I love their love okay! I admit it! I’m such a lush. They’re just so fricken fluffy and cute and I just want to dunk them in my coffee. The combination of bookshops and brawny shoulders and old words and trellises and romance novels is seriously intoxicating. This book is all of my favorite things proving why they’re my favorite things. It’s pretty cursive and old parchment and fairy lights in branchy trees and too-close waltzes danced in secret. A mood board of lovely things. But I think what really made it a great book was that it was also sexy and silly and full of surprises.
The sex scenes were light and fluffy too, but still substantial for the couple and story. Also by the time we got to the desk scene I forgot we were promised a desk scene so I was obviously overjoyed. Desk scenes are really just ~built~ different aren’t they. How many times am I going to write desk scene? As many as I very well please because ✨desk scenes✨ that’s why. Ravished by the wood methinks.
The conflict at the end was swift and we were rewarded with—what’s the answer class? That’s right—a desk scene (and others) so I say it was a win for all involved. I liked Beatrice’s final revelation about herself and I really liked how Ford was able to have one of his own. For reasons unbeknownst to me, the whole bookshop renovation was not listed on the back but it was such a fun part of the story!! All bookshops should be bawdy. I also really just love hot, sweaty men breaking (and then fixing) stuff.
I can’t wait for the next books in the series. With so many wallflowers added to the ranks, I think we’re going to be treated to a properly long series of happily ever afters and hunky love muffins. The acknowledgment section said this book was a love song to readers and it truly was.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5