[Review] One Rogue Too Many by Samantha Grace

One Rogue Too Many
Rival Rogue 
Samantha Grace
January 7, 2013
Sourcebooks Casablanca


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From the Betting Book at Brook's Gentleman's Club:

Wager: £2,000 that Lord Ellis will throw the first punch when he discovers Lord Throne is wooing a certain duke's sister.


All Bets Are Off When the Game is Love


Lady Gabrielle is thrilled when Anthony Keaton, earl of Ellis, asks for her hand in marriage. She's not so pleased when he then leaves the country and four months pass without a word. Clearly, the scoundrel has changed his mind and is too cowardly to tell her. There's nothing to do but go back on the marriage mart...


When Anthony returns to town and finds his ultimate rival has set sights on Gabby, his continual battle of one-upmanship with Sebastian Thorne ceases to be a game. Anthony is determined to win back the woman who holds his heart--but he's not expecting Gabby herself to up the stakes...
 

If you are looking for a quick light read, full of cheesy romance then I recommend I just finished One Rouge Too Many by Samantha Grace.  This book is about a Lady Gabrielle who has always been in love with brothers’ friend Lord Ellis.  After a night of passion it seems things are looking up because the Lord proposes to Lady Gabby only to leave for four months without a word.  Since their betrothal was a secret Lady Gabrielle lets herself start being courted by Lord Ellis’s rival Lord Thorne.  Now Lord Ellis is back in town and must use all the wooing powers he possesses to convince Lady Gabby that he is the man she must marry.

 

When I heard what this book was about I knew I wanted to read it because I am sucker for a good historical romance.  I liked this book this book for the most part.  I really liked the beginning because I liked the chemistry between Lord Ellis and Lady Gaby that steamed up the pages from the get go.  I could tell that Lord Ellis really had the hots for Lady Gaby and I liked it.  I thought that it was sweet and funny the depths of humiliation we was willing to put himself through to win the hand of his ladylove.  I could tell that both them had been carrying a torch for the other for a long time but were too stupid and too young that they couldn’t get it right.  Sometimes the timing is just off and one must be patient for love to come back around with that special someone. 

 

By the middle of the story it had taken a turn so out there that I wanted to shake Lady Gaby and yell at her to stop being such a ninny.  She gets in a caught in a kiss by her mother and her mother’s friend and in her mind now she must marry that man.  Only that man is not Lord Ellis he is the other man chasing after her Lord Thorne.  In mind she blames herself for her father’s death and all the unhappiness it caused her mother so she put aside her own happiness and prepares to walk down the aisle with wrong man.  Lord Ellis is unhappy and Lady Gabby is unhappy all because she too dimwitted to believe that her that mother does not blame her and just wants her to happy.  I understand there must be some kind of conflict but come on Lady Gabby don’t be so dimwitted. 

 

By the end of the book it redeems itself and once again my faith is restored in historical romance novels is restored because it ends with a happily ever after.  I liked the ending and epilogue they were very sweet.  I liked that by then both Lord Ellis and Lady Gabby have put away the past and are now able to focus on the present together.  I give One Rouge Too Many three laser pistols because it was very cute, cheesy, romantic, and sexy; but I felt that middle of book lagged a bit. 

 

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