This is a couple you really want to get together instead of being annoyed at them the whole book.Īlthough there are few love scenes, the passion of their kisses was very well written and made the pages heat up. He saw her in ways that others didn't see. Plus he thought she was still in love/like with Lord Tristan. It was also very sweet how Rothbury really loved Charlotte, but wasn't sure how to let her know that, and didn't feel he had the right to. Instead it was more of a friends to lovers story, and full of humor and quirkly moments which I found enjoyable. What I found refreshing is that Rothbury didn't spend this whole book trying to get Charlotte in bed, and she didn't spend the book chasing or throwing herself at the rake so she could find out 'what it was all about.' I am very sick of this overused storyline in historical romances nowadays, and frankly it irritates me because it's unrealistic that a gently bred young virginal woman of good family would risk her reputation and future that way. Especially since she was was lead on slightly by Lord Tristan, that he would offer for her, but then he offers for another girl instead.Ĭharlotte approaches Rothbury with the offer of friendship, which was mainly a ploy for the author to have Charlotte and Rothbury interact, which they probably wouldn't have otherwise. She doesn't realize how in love he is, because she can't imagine why a sophisticated man of the world would want her.

Mainly it's about the interaction between the on-the- shelf young woman, Charlotte, and Rothbury, who wants what he can't have, her. The plot is rather convoluted, which is strange. He was a rake because he had been taught to be one, and really didn't know any other life. Although rakes are not my favorite heroes, there was heart to this hero, so that I liked him, even from the beginning.

Rothbury comes from a family of degenerate rakes, and was taught to act the same way his whole life. You see, he didn't think he was good enough for her. She thought of herself as a wallflower, and was stuck on his best friend, Lord Tristan, who saved her mother and herself from a carriage accident, for that whole time.Īdam, who is known as Rothbury for this whole book, watched her grow from a skinny young girl into a willowy young woman, admiring her from afar, even loving her bookish, spectacled appearance. I loved the aspect of the hero, Lord Rothbury, being in love with Charlotte for six long years. I picked this one up as an impulse and was very pleasantly entertained by this story.

To wed a wicked earl by olivia parker