There's not much here to recommend. I didn't like the plot. I didn't like the characters. And the romance positively sucked. And it was long. So long that it became torturous to finish.

I've read a bunch of this author's works and they're varying degrees of decency - but they usually have swoonworthy romantic moments. This did not.

Here's the problem - in 300 pages we are shown pretty much nothing. There's no rhyme or reason to what the hero/heroine thinks. Rebecca in particular, swishes back and forth between hating him and not when he literally has not done anything. Devlin doesn't even think much of her. I liked the following thought.

Her intelligence was remarkable, he had always known that. But, there was more. Almost as if she thought herself his equal. The thought gave him pause. She was, he realized. One of the many reasons that he liked her so much.

Snodgrass, G.L.. Confronting a Rake (A Rake's Redemption Book 1) . Purple Herb. Kindle Edition.


Ah yes, how dare she think to be worthy of him. But then, on the other hand, she is an idiot. She whinges that he thinks her naive and innocent - um, maybe because you are? She had literally just asked a question she didn't know the answer to.

And then 300 pages in SURPRISE! They're in love. No fkn idea why. But yay. And I think that may be worse than just having instalove cause at least with that it happens quick and you know what's going on - you don't expect more. Plus they get to the romance quick. This never gets to any romance and just suffers from indecision.

I wish I could rate negative stars. But I will settle for 1. But it's really -1. Or half a star. Something like that anyway. Read something else. ( )