Thursday, November 16, 2017

A Rogue by Any Other Name/ Sarah MacLean/ 386 pgs

I loved the heroine in this story but did not care for the hero at all. This is a revenge plot. Michael, Lord Bourn, lost all of his inheritance, money and land, on a card game when he was 21. Does he take personal responsibility for his choice to wager everything he had? No he does not. Not on page 1 and not on page 386 either. I kept reading, hoping he would do so, but nope. I also kept reading because initially the heroine was awesome. Penelope is a pawn in Michael's plan to revenge himself against the man who won everything he owned. She called the hero out on his behavior again and again. Still, he never owned up to his choices. Eventually she falls in love with him and then I just felt sorry for her. This was one story where the hero needed much, much more self-reflection than just the few pages at the end. On a positive note, the writing was good and Michael has three friends in need of stories:-)

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