A Lady Dreaming of Love
Lady Genevieve Farendale has a scandalous past. Jilted at the altar years earlier and exiled by her family, she’s now returned to London to prove she can be a proper lady. Even though she’s not given up on the hope of marrying for love, she’s wary of trusting again. Then she meets Cedric Falcot, the Marquess of St. Albans, whose seductive ways set her heart aflutter. But with her sordid history, Genevieve knows a rake can also easily destroy her.
An Unlikely Pairing
What begins as a chance encounter between Cedric and Genevieve becomes something more. As they continue to meet, passions stir. But with Genevieve’s hope for true love, she fears Cedric will be unable to give up his wayward lifestyle. After all, Cedric has spent years protecting his heart and keeping everyone out. Slowly, she chips away at all the walls he’s built, but when he falters, Genevieve can’t offer him redemption. Now it’s up to Cedric to prove to Genevieve that the love of a man is far more powerful than the lure of a rake.
Waggling Eyebrows and Fizzled Love Story I was loving this book so much until about the middle of it. After the wedding, the magic and chemistry between the two main characters seemed to fizzle. Against all the efforts of the author to make it romantic in the end, it got sappy, boring and way too drawn out. And there was too much eyebrow “waggling” throughout the entire book. I swear that each character at one time or another “waggled” their eyebrows and it became annoyingly redundant.
A beautiful, ugly and Messy about what it takes to make love work Christi Caldwell has created a another masterpiece with The Lure of a Rake. She paints a real, raw and honest picture of the struggles Cedric and Genevieve have in trying to make their relationship work.Â
Can Two Ruins Make a Right? In this 9th book in Christi Caldwell’s Heart of a Duke Series she introduces us to a bookful of chracters who are hard to like. The Farendales are possibly the worst parents ever. When their daughter Genevieve is left at the altar on her wedding day with a note from her betrothed saying she was ruined, instead of standing up for their daughter, they accuse her of creating a scandal and send her away to the country. They bring her back to town 5 years later, not because she has been…