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An entertaining Regency debut.... The 19th-century clothes are luscious, the 21st-century sensibility is raunchy, and it’s all implausible, escapist fun. (Publishers Weekly )
MacLean’s devilishly fun debut novel is an absolute delight: rich in supple wit, suffused with sensuality, and enlivened with a wonderfully engaging cast of characters. (Booklist (starred review) )
MacLean has penned a fast-paced, funny tale with a marvelous cast of characters who captivate and enchant. This book should come with a warning: Once you start, you won’t want to put it down! (Romantic Times BOOKclub )
Wow, what a great book! I love it. One of the best wrenching-heart scenes ever...Fabulous! (Eloisa James )
MacLean’s devilishly fun debut novel is an absolute delight: rich in supple wit, suffused with sensuality, and enlivened with a wonderfully engaging cast of characters. (Booklist (starred review) )
MacLean has penned a fast-paced, funny tale with a marvelous cast of characters who captivate and enchant. This book should come with a warning: Once you start, you won’t want to put it down! (Romantic Times BOOKclub )
Wow, what a great book! I love it. One of the best wrenching-heart scenes ever...Fabulous! (Eloisa James )
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A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at a gentlemen's club.
Lady Calpurnia Hartwell has always followed the rules, rules that have left her unmarried—and more than a little unsatisfied. And so she's vowed to break the rules and live the life of pleasure she's been missing.
But to dance every dance, to steal a midnight kiss—to do those things, Callie will need a willing partner. Someone who knows everything about rule-breaking. Someone like Gabriel St. John, the Marquess of Ralston—charming and devastatingly handsome, his wicked reputation matched only by his sinful smile.
If she's not careful, she'll break the most important rule of all—the one that says that pleasure-seekers should never fall hopelessly, desperately in love . . .
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ok,
By Book-Rants(dot)blogspot(dot)com (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake (Mass Market Paperback)
I enjoyed this novel. I liked the characters and the plot. However, there were quite a few things I didn't like. I'm very picky when it comes to historical romance novels, I've been reading this genre since I was 14 and so I know what I want when it comes to a romance book. What I look for is more romance less sex. To me sex scenes do not equal romance and this book had far to many cheesy sexual scenes for my taste. I thought the hero and heroine didn't spend enough time just talking to one another, instead every time they were together it was about something sexual. Personally I don't know how he fell in love with her based on their time together, but I've learned to accept that that is how it works in the world of romance novels. Anyways, this is just mostly my opinion, the writing itself was excellent and I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan of this genre. There were plenty of laugh out loud moments and quite a few lines that were just perfectly delivered at the right time. I most likely will read another by MacLean and I give this book 3 out of 5. I should probably say I rate historical romance novels a little more harshly than others because this is my favorite genre and I expect a lot of the books I read in it, so maybe if this book had been a different genre it would have gotten a higher rating
5.0 out of 5 stars
Something Old, but Something New....,
This review is from: Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake (Mass Market Paperback)
As a rule, I never buy a book that is not a New York Times Bestseller or A USA TOday Bestseller. Somehow, from the corner of my eye, I spied Ms. MacLean's book sitting at the bottom of a shelf in our local bookstore. I was trying on new books that day and I had four, for some reason, I picked Nine Rules... to read first. And oh boy was I glad I did!!!!
This book is definitely going to be in my must-read-every-night-before-I-go-to-bed books! Admittedly, the plot is a cliche of the many historical romances out there. In fact, I could see the influence of Julia Quinn, Judith McNaught and Lisa Kleypas in the story. This is probably part of the reason why I loved it. The story was not hurried, you could actually tell when the characters are starting to fall in love. In short, the romance was not forcefully written. The drama was controlled,and it was quite a lot. I love the fact that it was always the girl who was being aggravated. The misunderstandings between the hero and heroine have been written a lot of times before, but the way they were thrown in the story and how the heroine dealt with it was less predictable. What i mind quite a bit was their fights did not last that long, which kind of took the fun out of them cause I couldn`t wallow in the bittersweet feeling as much, but that`s just me. The epilogue was very short, but also sweet. It kind of ended where everything started. I just wish that the author could have shown what their lives were like after four or five years. It just gives the story a more continuous feeling. Other than that. It was a great read! It`s been a long time since I read a book that I didn`t feel the need to skip pages to get to the end. With Nine Rules...time and pages flew by, and I wish there were 400 more pages to read after that. =) The story is kind of like an accumulation of the books that I`ve read and still love to read, it`s old and tried already and the author is someone new I can follow. I`m so excited to read her other works. =)
4.0 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this one,
By JJBB (Toronto ON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake (Mass Market Paperback)
I read about 6 books a week so I go through a lot of books. I really enjoyed this one and am almost tempted to name something Calpurnia just because I liked the heroine so much. Laugh out loud humour. Will definitely be reading the next one in the series.
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