Author: Kelly Bowen
Original Title: A Good Rogue Is Hard to Find
Release Year: 2015 (April)
Literary Genre: Historical Romance
Setting: England, Regency Era
Series: 2nd of The Lords of Worth
Vote: 10
This is one of the best romances I've recently read!
There's a lot here and that's why, while reading, more than once I though 'Here it comes the misstep...', well no it doesn't, there is none! And trust me, considering the story-line, what the author did wasn't easy at all.
A sweet, breathtaking love story, painful pasts, a lot of secrets, a 'Robin Hood' like masterplan, strong women, funny and witty lines, horsesracings, St Giles, eccentricity, chickens...
I've read several romances which tried to do the same, puting up a story full of details, sub-plots and intrigues, and failed, sometime miserably as well. I've previously seen similar premises to the ones laid down by Kelly Bowen, with packs of pugs in place of chickens or with too perfect polyglottal, expert-horse-riders, intelligent heroines, one of those who can do everything magnificently, one of those who irritate me immensely...however, she managed to portrait a resolute, sweet, caring and capable heroine, a woman with her weaknesses and her great qualities, far from perfect and therefore very close to be highly realistic. Hallelujah!
