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The Last Days Of A Rake (2010)

by Donna Lea Simpson(Favorite Author)

2.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1426890192 (ISBN13: 9781426890192)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Carina Press

series

Love and Scandal

review 1: Not quite the romance novel really, because it deals with the regrets of a reformed rake on his deathbed and how he was a rather scummy scoundrel. A little like Peter O'Toole's Casanova in the Casanova miniseries, starring David Tennant. The book itself was quite well written - almost lyrical in places, though short. In the end, I came away feeling quite sad for all the characters. I do like the idea of the book within the book, however. Rather like The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey. Hmm!
review 2: We find Edgar Lankin on his deathbed. A man in his 40's who has lived a life caring really about no one but himself. He has always lived a life of self indulgence and self deception always finding a way to blame others for the things he did whenever he ha... mored an ounce of regret for the people he had hurt.Sitting with him at his bedside is his one lifelong friend John Hamilton who took a totally different path than Edgar choosing to study and follow God.Edgar decides to confess to his friend John some of the hurts that he has caused others. He tells how in 1811 right out of Oxford University he meets a young woman, Susan Bailey, whom he seduces and then abandons. He even went so far as to place wagers with his buddies that he could accomplish such a feat. So each yr after he would make a wager with his friends called the Susan wager and he would pick a young girl to seduce never caring how he hurt her reputation.He never alters his path in life until he realizes he is dying, then he does as many good deeds as he can for others trying to make amends for the lives he has ruined.Will Edgar find the forgiveness he longs for in the last days of his life, or will the hurts that he has caused follow him till his dying day? Even though this is a companion piece to a story called Love & Scandal it can be read as a stand alone piece. On a side note this book is only available in e-book form.Thanks to Carina Press and Net Galley for allowing me to read this book. less

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