by Loretta Chase
With Lilith I was reminded quite a bit of the female lead in "The Nonesuch" (Ancilla Trent). Also the storyline of the younger relative (of the male lead) who wants to marry a girl of bad reputation reminded me of "Faro's daughter" though the constellation was not exactly the same. The [spoiler...
Thanks to Mrs. Julien for her awesome romance review template! Knaves’ Wager is a romance of the you are everything I never knew I always wanted AND opposites attract variety: Boy meets girl. He is the reprobate former best friend of her now-dead husband. She hates him because she believes he drove ...
Starchy heroine vs rake, with a very cute secondary character- loved the young niece! I assume this was very early LC, written in that very sweet regency style, but with Chase's trademark humor and bite. I thought it was just light fun til my eyes filled up!
2,5Knave's Wager is an impeccable story, but it is unexciting for my taste.
The first half of the book wasn't engaging at all and I would have put it into the DNF pile if it wasn't a Loretta Chase book - the hero was a cold, blase, arrogant SOB and the heroine was the Ice Queen who despised him, with good reason. But after the heroine was goaded into tearing a strip off the...
Two-quality, two-enjoyment. Just okay. Wagers are a bad idea, yanno? I did find the scheming niece to be a delight, though.
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