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I absolutely LOVED this book. It was well written, funny and intelligent. The characters were well developed and worked perfectly together.

Sophie was a wonderful heroine. She was bright, funny and loved her family unconditionally. That love of family is what really got her into trouble. Her father's title was new (only created 10 years ago) and the family was viewed as upstarts. When Sophie caught her sister's husband in the greenhouse with another woman -- well -- she did what any uncouth, ill bred, upstart would do -- she pushed him into a fishpond and told him off -- at a garden party -- in front of the entire ton. Her stubborn fortitude lands her in all kinds of situations. You just can't help but smile at her and love her. She's a great heroine.

King is a hurt-by-love-so-can't-love-again hero. Poor fellow -- he just can't help himself. He tries to get away from Sophie and keeps telling himself she's not his problem -- but he keeps right on rescuing her. Even after she sells all of his curricle wheels in order to buy herself a ticket on the mail coach.

One thing I didn't like was that her older sister's difficulties weren't wrapped up. The other sisters were sort of handled, but the older one was left dangling. I can't imagine that she'll be featured in another story because she's married to a Duke (the one Sophie pushed into the fish pond).

I do hope you'll give this wonderful book a read. I am sure you'll love it


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The Rogue Not Taken Scandal Scoundrel Book I Sarah MacLean 9780062379412 Books Reviews

I'd like to begin by stating that I always enjoy Sarah MacLean's books. I've read them all and have given them great reviews. Her Rules of Scoundrels series was wonderful. However, this story was just plain terrible. King was so immature and unlikeable. If he had been written as a young man in his early twenties versus thirties then perhaps you could forgive his actions. Sophie was just silly but shouldn't have been. She started out witty, strong, and intelligent. However she quickly deteriorated to silly and weak. The story situation was far fetched and became overly annoying. Sophie's family was ridiculous. However, my absolute biggest complaint and disappointment was in Sarah MacLean's writing. Where was her editor? There were many repetitive paragraphs and it was noticeable. There was modern American slang scattered throughout her story. It would just snap you out of the story and make you stop and say to yourself... no way they said this in Regency England. This is becoming so common in Historical Romances and is a trend that should quickly be rectified. I am so saddened to even write this negative review but this was not up to the author's abilities. I gave the book two stars because I have enjoyed Sarah MacClean's books in the past. Sad to say that it was just a huge disappointment.
The story is basically the Kardashians or whatever celebrity scandal is currently the rage, but set in the Regency Era.

The heroine is the youngest of 7 sisters, all whose names begin with S. Their father is "new" money and he won the title of earl off the Prince Regent in a card game. "Society" looks down on them, but there's the money involved, and, of course, the fun of the gossip papers that the seven sisters love to be in. Well, all of the sisters except the heroine.

I wanted to like the story. See, I strongly dislike celebrity anything. The only celebrity news I follow is whatever headlines catch my attention at the check out lane in the grocery store. Most of which make me roll my eyes.

Characters

I did like the heroine. The youngest of the sisters, she is the least scandalous. Although she does push her eldest sister's husband, a duke no less, into a pond for fornicating at a party with a woman that wasn't her sister. Of course this caused outrage, but I was not entirely sold on every member of the aristocracy pulling their investments out of her father's hands because of it. You see, they needed coal during this time and it was very profitable. I can't see too many people risking fortunes because a duke got embarrassed doing something he was allowed to do only if he didn't get caught.

I also liked that she was bold and tried to take care of herself. Not sure anyone would mistake her for a boy, even in livery, but I let it slide and enjoyed it for the silly it was.

The hero was ... Well, he was not a gentleman. He wasn't even an alpha hero that sort of gets away with being a bit over-bearing. He's actually rather rude to her, insulting, and arrogant in all the wrong ways. He has taken serious liberties with the heroine, and then when he gets caught taking her virginity, well, clearly she was out to get him the whole time! Really?!? I have no idea what the heroine saw in him.

Hero's father - I wanted to like him, but I didn't believe he'd allow a misunderstanding between him and his son to continue for 15 years.

Plot

After dunking her brother-in-law, the heroine wants to make an escape from the party, but can't. When the hero won't help her, she bribes his stable boy for his livery and thinks they are going back to London. It's only when they're out in the country that she realizes they went the wrong way. The hero is actually going to his country home because he believes his father is on his deathbed.

Sarcasm ensues when he realizes one of the Scandalous S sisters has stowed away with him, and when he again refuses to help her, she takes matters into her own hands and manages to get fare for the stagecoach.

Like I said, totally not a gentleman. He even leaves her to sleep with the male servants...

Of course the stagecoach is robbed, she's shot, and the hero gets there just in time to save her.

A bit of falling in love happens as he sees to her recovery. Not entirely sure what she sees in him as he continues to be rather insulting.

More hi-jinks, and when she's at her lowest point, the hero decides to take her home with him as his fiancee to help his father into the grave. After all, she is a Scandalous S sister. And clearly he thinks she has no feelings at all as he uses her so callously, especially when he knows how lost and adrift she is. He's a gem.

When he gets home, however, he learns his father is hale and whole and nowhere near death. Father and son have some unresolved issues which get resolved amidst more misunderstandings with the heroine.

This is a romance novel, so it all gets resolved and you get your happy ever after ending.

All in all, I wish the heroine would've kicked the hero to curb and found someone that knew how to treat another human being. You might like it better if you like celebrity gossip, but still don;t see much redeeming in the hero.
I absolutely LOVED this book. It was well written, funny and intelligent. The characters were well developed and worked perfectly together.

Sophie was a wonderful heroine. She was bright, funny and loved her family unconditionally. That love of family is what really got her into trouble. Her father's title was new (only created 10 years ago) and the family was viewed as upstarts. When Sophie caught her sister's husband in the greenhouse with another woman -- well -- she did what any uncouth, ill bred, upstart would do -- she pushed him into a fishpond and told him off -- at a garden party -- in front of the entire ton. Her stubborn fortitude lands her in all kinds of situations. You just can't help but smile at her and love her. She's a great heroine.

King is a hurt-by-love-so-can't-love-again hero. Poor fellow -- he just can't help himself. He tries to get away from Sophie and keeps telling himself she's not his problem -- but he keeps right on rescuing her. Even after she sells all of his curricle wheels in order to buy herself a ticket on the mail coach.

One thing I didn't like was that her older sister's difficulties weren't wrapped up. The other sisters were sort of handled, but the older one was left dangling. I can't imagine that she'll be featured in another story because she's married to a Duke (the one Sophie pushed into the fish pond).

I do hope you'll give this wonderful book a read. I am sure you'll love it