And the end, well I think it speaks to the type of life Prue has had at home. The opening is a different world than when the girls escape to London. And for the most part it is readable in The Perfect Rake, even when your opening scene is a young girl getting the shit beat out of her by a man who do deserves to die, slowly and painfully.Ĭheryl talks about a ‘schizophrenic aspect’ to the book, which I agree is there. It is a hard plot point to have in a book, how do you write it without making it over the top? How do you write it without making it offensive? How do you write it and keep the romance in a novel? Because it is offensive, it is over the top and most of all it isn’t romantic but it is a fact of life and it does happen. And not because it is ugly, which it is and not because it is a true fact of life, which it is. I don’t really like to read about ‘beating’ in books – child, wife, kittens whatever. Hee so I guess that makes him the perfect rake ). The rake here is a rake’s rake not a fake rake but he is a REFORMED rake from the moment he meets the heroine, uh unless you count trying to seduce the heroine. Give me creative, witty banter between two well drawn likable characters without treating me or the characters like we are stupid and I am sold. And as much as I like steam I love good banter. The madcap regency romps aren’t much my thing but this does have something of that flavor with really good writing thrown in. The scene was amusing and the hero just caught me. It was a short scene with the heroine and some random exmistress. bad jay bad bad.Īnyway as I picked it up to put aside with the other hundreds of newly purchased books to be read I turned to the back to read the author profile, which lead to reading the last page (yes gasp in horror) which lead to me randomly opening the book to read a few pages (yes gasp again). I picked this up yesterday at Barnes and Noble – it was Jay’s fault I was there. Cheryl Sneed’s review is mostly on target with what I thought about the book.
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