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A review by fv_angela
Love Is a Rogue by Lenora Bell
3.0
Review originally posted at https://smexybooks.com/2020/10/angelas-minis-reviews-for-love-is-a-rogue-and-crazy-stupid-bromance.html
I simply adored this author’s last release and was very excited to get an early copy of this first book in her newest series. Wallflowers vs. Rogues has many of the same characters as her School for Dukes series but seems to be introducing a fresh, new group of Wallflowers/women who want something different for their lives other than balls and shopping and letting men control them. Love is a Rogue turned out to be a sweet, not overly angst-filled romance.
The heroine, Beatrice, is a young woman who has a slight palsy and has dealt with it by falling into books and forming true friendships with other women who want a life not normally acceptable of the times for women. Her hero is Ford, a carpenter on her brother’s estate. I liked that this book featured an everyday working man rather than a duke or earl or another member of the aristocracy. Ford is a steady, capable man whose own mother fell in love with a carpenter and was disowned by her family. He knows what a relationship with Beatrice would mean for her, but nevertheless falls for her anyway.
You would think there would be A LOT of angst and drama in this story, but there really isn’t. There is a villain, and a mama who is overly ambitious for her daughter, but neither is really terrible and the ‘big misunderstanding’ lasts about two pages. The conflict is wrapped up nice and neat with a bow… almost a little too easily. But I liked the romance and am really looking forward to seeing more of the secondary characters in the rest of the series.
Final grade- C+/B-
I simply adored this author’s last release and was very excited to get an early copy of this first book in her newest series. Wallflowers vs. Rogues has many of the same characters as her School for Dukes series but seems to be introducing a fresh, new group of Wallflowers/women who want something different for their lives other than balls and shopping and letting men control them. Love is a Rogue turned out to be a sweet, not overly angst-filled romance.
The heroine, Beatrice, is a young woman who has a slight palsy and has dealt with it by falling into books and forming true friendships with other women who want a life not normally acceptable of the times for women. Her hero is Ford, a carpenter on her brother’s estate. I liked that this book featured an everyday working man rather than a duke or earl or another member of the aristocracy. Ford is a steady, capable man whose own mother fell in love with a carpenter and was disowned by her family. He knows what a relationship with Beatrice would mean for her, but nevertheless falls for her anyway.
You would think there would be A LOT of angst and drama in this story, but there really isn’t. There is a villain, and a mama who is overly ambitious for her daughter, but neither is really terrible and the ‘big misunderstanding’ lasts about two pages. The conflict is wrapped up nice and neat with a bow… almost a little too easily. But I liked the romance and am really looking forward to seeing more of the secondary characters in the rest of the series.
Final grade- C+/B-