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How to Get a Rake to Change

by Keira 10.22.2010

Got a thing for historical playboys? Memorize these 10 steps and you will have your rakish fellow eating out of the palm of your hand. Turn His Charm Against Him. A Rake’s charm is his most potent weapon against the opposite sex, and he knows it. Therefore you must turn the tables and make his [...]

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Regency Rakes and Their All Too Often Naughtiest Traits

by Sandra Scholes 09.18.2010

by Sandra Scholes, guest blogger Rakes are numerous in Regency romance novels, as a peek through a Mills and Boon or Jane Austen paperback will tell enough about a supposed gentleman’s personality, but what are the man’s traits that separate men in fiction from the rakish rogues in popular historical novels today? What makes a [...]

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Review: Let Sleeping Rogues Lie by Sabrina Jeffries

by Keira 04.23.2010

Let Sleeping Rogues Lie is as scintillating as the title sounds rolling off the lips. Sabrina Jeffries weaves a tale of deception, half-truths, and omission. Sordid pasts litter throughout the story, many alongside the main characters, and a few directly related to the main characters. The only thing to watch out for is the mention [...]

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Review: When Seducing a Duke by Kathryn Smith

by Keira 12.15.2009

The cover is fantastic on this book. The color scheme is wonderful with gorgeous yellows, blues, and shades of brown. It was an impulse buy because of it. The back blurb was intriguing. That’s about the last truly good thing I can say about the novel. The writing made me wince several times. I’m not [...]

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Review: Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James

by Keira 03.31.2009

Desperate Duchesses is not one of Eloisa James’ best. I could barely focus in the beginning on all the name dropping and afterwards I was more inclined to think poorly despite all the book’s promising potential. The writing style was overly choppy and scenes jumped very helter-skelter throughout making the book a chore instead of [...]