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I think you will also. It was good to revisit Richard , Sofie and Phillips again! John is such a strong character. I think Rebecca is just right for him. Lady Chloe was entertaining. I highly recommend you read it.


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Never Resist a Rake Somerfield Park Mia Marlowe 0760789247224 Books Reviews

4.5 Bookmark Review!

Never Resist a Rake is book two in the Somerfield Park Series. These can be read alone, which I love. We start off with John at a fighting mill. To sweeten the pot, in addition to a purse, the people who stage the fights grab a girl of quality off the street (kidnapping) and offer her to the winner. John recognizes the girl as someone he briefly met at a museum. He fights...and wins her. Thankfully, he's a gentleman, although he hasn't been one all that long, and he takes her home to her family.

In return, Rebecca tells his family where he is. He's only recently come into the fold and they've been looking for him. There's quite a bit of back story as to why he's now the heir to the Somerset marquessate. There are also a lot of hard feelings. John has been treated badly, and now they want him to be everything refined. That's rather hard for him, especially because of way they treated him as a youngster.

This is a case of not everything being black and white. Lots of shades of gray here, and finding our way through made for an enjoyable read.

His grandmother made some bad choices, back in the day. But she really does want to make up for them. Every time her bits of dialog came up, I'd hear Maggie Smith speaking as Violet from Downton Abbey. Made me smile. The banter between Sophie (the star of the first book) and Gran was fabulous. Yep, I thought of Maggie every time.

There are some bad guys in this book. I wanted really bad things to happen to them. One was taken care of...the other still needed to have his comeuppance. It bothered me that Rebecca's father didn't get what was coming to him. You'll understand when you read the book. I think he needed to be pushed out a window. Where was Lady Chloe when we needed her? Just kidding, sort of. Lady Chloe was a very interesting addition to the supporting cast. I was worried about her for a while.

As I mentioned Downton Abbey, this read very much like that TV series. We got several POV, including that of some of the below stairs folk. Porter and Theresa were wonderful in their parts.

Another thing, Ms. Marlowe didn't feel the need to rehash anything. She told us once, maybe mentioned things again, but she didn't repeat back story or anything else over and over and over again! Bless you and Thank You! I get rather tired of authors repeating themselves in the narrative. Readers are smarter than you think. We get it when you tell us something. There is no need to #NaNoWriMo us just to make your book fatter. Ms. Marlowe was great!

Yes, very enjoyable. I'll need to find more by this author. AND I'll need to get my copy (that I won) of Plaid Tidings out and give it a read. I highly recommend this one.

Thank you, Sourcebooks Casablanca and NetGalley, for the opportunity to read this book.
This book is a curious beast, because on the one hand it’s a well researched historical novel with lots of nice detail, but on the other it has a pair of characters acting completely at odds with the time period they’re supposed to live in. The plot too falls into two halves, with the stuff about John and his family being quite interesting – especially with his father – while the romance was a little too familiar and farcical for me.

I tried to like Rebecca, honestly I did. She’s the daughter of an impoverished peer who has always existed on the fringe of the ton, she’s also a blue-stocking with a particular interest in astronomy – she even shares my name. There were so many things about her that I should have been able to like. And yet… yes, and yet. The way she bosses John about and orders him to forgive his family, as if the rift between them is completely his fault – even after she knows all the facts – really grated on me. It might also have been nice to have found out more about how she ended up in the boxing crib at the start of the book.

Then there’s her behavior. She mumbles and flutters about propriety, but by that point she’s already been in John’s bedchamber alone, has ridden for hours with him in an open carriage, then stayed unchaperoned at an inn – admittedly not completely overnight, but near enough. If she was really worried about being ruined, she probably should have mentioned it at any of those points, not when they’re just sitting in a garden. As for everything else that follows between them… It just didn’t fit in with a supposedly intelligent young woman who respects societal rules.

John has a few more excuses, since he was raised in the country and only recently came to London after the shock of discovering that he’s the legitimate heir to a marquess. He’s pretty stubborn and obviously wounded by his childhood, but at least he’s not malicious. I couldn’t quite work out what he saw in Rebecca, to be honest, though I definitely understood his stance when it came to his grandmother. He’s an okay hero, I suppose, but he’s going through so many emotional changes that I spent too much time feeling sorry for him to really like him.

Beyond these two there are a lot of other characters, many of whom take over scenes and chapters, keeping sideplots and undercurrents bubbling. John’s family get plenty of time and attention, as do his servants, while friends and villains have their moments too. If I’d cared more about the romance I might have been annoyed by all the side-tracking, but since I didn’t, I didn’t mind too much.

On the whole the research is good and the details are interesting, although I don’t think any Regency resident would have considered Somerset close to London. I also felt quite bad for the pink dress that got hanged in the wardrobe (surely it wasn’t that bad), nor am I entirely sure what chestnut rain looks like, apart from a shade of hair, but the occasional odd phrasing aside this book was a nice easy read with nothing too serious or upsetting.

Depending on how much patience you have for modern behavior from “historical” characters, there is plenty to like in this book. I just wish I’d found the romance as compelling as the relationship between John and his father. It might also have been nice to have seen less of the other characters, but if I’d read the first in the series perhaps I’d be happy to have them all back. In all it’s a pleasant read, but not a keeper.

(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)
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I think you will also. It was good to revisit Richard , Sofie and Phillips again! John is such a strong character. I think Rebecca is just right for him. Lady Chloe was entertaining. I highly recommend you read it.