Author: Sabrina Jeffries
Original Title: When the Rogue Returns
Release Year: 2014
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: Scotland and England, regency
Series: 2° of The Duke's Men series
Vote: 9/10
Every time I start a Sabrina Jeffries' novel review I promise myself to mention two things: the first one is about her characters, they are all connected through her books, which creates the beautiful imagine of a real society; you can meet a minor character in a romance (not expecting, but often wishing, to meet him again) and then you find him, or her, as a protagonist...I know she's not the only one to do that but honestly she is the only one, who I have the pleasure to know, to design this idea of a real world with many different series protagonists, so well.
Second, I must express the enormous
appreciation I have for the tense she uses in her titles, thank you
for using the present and not the past! It gives me a feeling of
reality and authenticity and especially the feeling that, despite the
age in which the story is settled, what I'm going to read is not
gone;
I loved this romance, which is not
exactly an unexpected news: I am a devoted and enthusiast Sabrina
Jeffries' admirer.
I've always thought that for the
sequels on a series is easier to catch the reader attention, who
normally already knows the protagonist (or both of them) and maybe
already loves them, but a sequel, for an author, I think, can also be
tricky (see Julia Quinn's Splendid series for example); well, in When
the rogue returns, everything is in the right place but I won't
hide that I favoured What the duke desires, which I adore, so
lets be clear on the fact that the comparison is very high!
