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Saint Who Stole My Heart: A Regency Rogues Novel (2014)

by Stefanie Sloane(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1299087477 (ISBN13: 9781299087477)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ballantine Books

series

Regency Rogues

review 1: I like Stephanie Sloan stories. This book is a part of a series...I am addicted to series. The only problem with them is that I forget the story by the time the next installment is published. Yea! for Goodreads. I can refresh my memory by reading the reviews of the preceding books. It is better than the author bringing me up to date during the story. This is Dash's story...and Elena's. We still have not caught the villain, the Bishop. There is a hint in this installment of the existence of a King. The only downside of this story is the quick transition of Dash from the nitwit to the intelligent rogue that falls in love at first sight with Elena, the plain Jane blue stocking. The moment was so quick that it didn't seem realist. Otherwise, it was a good installment ... morethat kept me waiting for the next one...Nicholas! hmmmmmm?
review 2: DNF-- I gave up on this one at Chapter 11 (appropriate, no?). To be fair, I started this book thinking it belonged to a different series entirely, because I confused the description of the hero with that of a character from the other series. That said...I feel that, particularly in romantic series (where the focus of each book is on a couple), books should be able to mostly stand on their own from the rest of the series. Supporting characters who obviously have more backstory elsewhere, fine. Overarching plot that neither begins nor ends with this title, fine. But at least a FEW extra words of introduction or description to get new readers up to speed (and hopefully make them hungry for the books they missed) would be appreciated.Not only did this book NOT do that at all (from the flashback introduction, I expected the heroine to be an entirely different character), but even the main couple's plot made wild and unexplained leaps. (Her maid's abduction and bizarre rescue? Where the heck did THAT come from?) And when one of those unexplained leaps is when, exactly, the main characters have grown so close as to passionately "become one" in a coach... yeah. (Honestly, I actually flipped back. I thought I'd somehow skipped 20 or 30 pages of romantic plot development.)Add to that the hero's unconvincing and healfhearted "emptyheaded" act (despite the fact that this is a facade he's supposedly perfected over years) and the heroine's odd terror of Society (people called her a bluestocking SIX YEARS AGO. They did not beat her with sticks. Why is she so spooked that she can't even exchange civilities with a stranger in the street without freaking out?)Yeah. Time to call it quits... and it's left me with absolutely no desire to read any of the rest of this series. less

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