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    Love is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues
    Love is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues
    Love is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues
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    Love is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues

    Written by Lenora Bell

    Narrated by Beverley A. Crick

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    About this audiobook

    Once upon a time in Mayfair a group of wallflowers formed a secret society with goals that had absolutely nothing to do with matrimony. Their most troublesome obstacle? Rogues! 

     

    They call her Beastly Beatrice. 

    Wallflower Lady Beatrice Bentley longs to remain in the wilds of Cornwall to complete her etymological dictionary. Too bad her brother’s Gothic mansion is under renovation. How can she work with an annoyingly arrogant and too-handsome rogue swinging a hammer nearby?

    Rogue. Scoundrel. Call him anything you like as long as you pay him.

    Navy man Stamford Wright is leaving England soon and renovating Thornhill House is just a job. It’s not about the duke’s bookish sister or her fiery copper hair. Or the etymology lessons the prim-yet-alluring lady insists on giving him. Or the forbidden things he'd love to teach her.

    They say never mix business with pleasure. But when Beatrice and Ford aren't arguing, they're kissing. 

    Sometimes temptation proves too strong to resist…even if the cost is a heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateOct 27, 2020
    ISBN9780063041714
    Love is a Rogue: Wallflowers vs. Rogues
    Author

    Lenora Bell

    Lenora Bell is a USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of historical romances. A teacher with an MFA in Creative Writing, Lenora has lived and worked on five continents. She currently lives in Colombia with her partner and two tiger-striped rescue kitties. She loves hearing from readers! Sign up for her mailing list to hear about new books, sales, and giveaways.

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    • 2/5
      No! No. No!I couldn't find the strength to finish this because of the MCs. This couple, Lady Beatrice Bentley and Stamford Wright, would have never worked out and as the story progressed, it was difficult to envision a relationship between them.A bibliophile and a scoundrel? Nope. I love the opposites attract trope as much as the next reader but our heroine was in another stratosphere. Incompatible is putting it lightly and the main characters differences negatively impacted my thoughts about them and this book inself.To add on, this novel was not engaging. I was bored and disinterested and left scratching my head on the 'romance' segment of this read. It didn't do it for me for obvious reasons and I can only hope with the next installment, I can find a deeper connection or attachment with the characters, plot and storyline.
    • 5/5
      I love how they fell in love. Beautifully done LB
    • 5/5
      The fact that the protagonist was a book loving early feminist with a bookshop made sure that this would be a five star read for me! First book by Lenora Bell that I have read but will definitely check out more.
    • 5/5
      Review originally published at Romancing Romances.I received an eARC at no cost from the publisher, and I am leaving a voluntary and honest review. Thank you.I absolutely loved this book. A hero that’s a carpenter and a heroine who is an etymologist – perfect combination!One of the things that always makes my heart flutter is acts of service. Because acts of service mean that you’ve been paying attention to your partner (or your friend, or whoever the other person is in this situation) and it just makes me so happy that the characters listen to each other’s needs *swoon*.This book is a bit of a Beauty and The Beast retelling, since our heroine “was born with palsy of the facial nerve caused by damage from the instruments the doctors used” (in Love is a Rogue, by Lenora Bell) during her birth, which means one side of her face does not move “normaly”, and her smile is lopsided.Lady Beatrice Bentley, this beautiful, rich lady, who prefers a comfortable blue dress than the somewhat growing and starting to be exaggerated creations of the 1830’s, can’t help but feel the attraction to Stamford Wright, the roguish carpenter working on her brother’s estate.I loved falling in love with Ford and Beatrice, and seeing their love develop and overcome what would be thought of as a barrier for the time, or if not a barrier, at least a strong detriment for their union.Beatrice loves words, and she is fascinated with the words that disappear from our language, and the ones that are almost “chosen” to remain, and for Ford this is not an interest, but he becomes fascinated with how happy Beatrice is when she’s talking about writing her dictionary, and how caring he is for her and her love of books. I mean… he built her BOOKSHELVES!Also, this book is full of feminism, sisterhood, all the things we want to see in this world. As I was reading this book, I found myself mirrored in the women of The Mayfair Ladies Knitting League, with the same wishes and desires: “Why should being female preclude me from being an entrepreneur? I say, smash down the barriers” (Love is A Rogue, by Lenora Bell). One of my favourite quotes from this book is exactly related to women (women as in anyone that identifies as female), and how we see ourselves in the world and society: “We women are all so critical of ourselves. We’re too plump, or too thin. Too tall, or too short. Our hair is too curly, or too straight. We live in a society that rewards conformity to a strict set of physical standards and an even more rigid set of rules for proper behaviour. We have these unpleasant thoughts running round and round in our minds. Wouldn’t it be revolutionary if we decided to love ourselves exactly the way we are?” (in Love is a Rogue, by Lenora Bell). Apologies for the long quote, but I loved it so much, that I remember shedding a tear when I read this. Self-love, and supporting ourselves and others, shouldn’t that be the ultimate goal?Anyway, this book was also a love dedication to all of us readers, as I’m sure you can understand from the above mentioned love of books and words. As I was reading this book, I found myself highlighting these sentences that put into words a feeling that I’m sure most readers relate to: “But I can’t possibly read all of them [books]. It keeps me up at night sometimes, knowing that I can’t read every book I own. You should see how many books are stacked beside by bed just waiting to be read. And I don’t have the time to read them all” (in Love is A Rogue, by Lenora Bell).Of course, this book is a romance, and the love story is the main element. But in this case, for me, it felt like there was more than ONE love story – there was the love between Beatrice and Ford, but also the love between these women supporting each other’s endeavours, and the love for words, and for your own passions!All in all, I loved this book. It is romantic, sexy, powerful, all you want in a good book.P.S. Make sure you read the acknowledgements at the end!
    • 4/5
      The attraction of words!First in the Wallflowers vs Rogues series. Lady Beatrice Bentley, a studious young woman whose desire is to write an etymological dictionary and not marry runs smack bang into the desire she's rarely been brave enough to think about. The attraction she experiences for the carpenter Stamford Wright, her brother Drew, Duke of Thorndon has employed, to make repairs to his Cornwall property destroyed any notion of the tranquility she'd hoped to find for her special project. Beatrice's time to pursue her word smithing for her great dictionary is precious and the permission to do this was a bargain Beatrice had reached with her mother. The point of their understanding is that when she returns to London she'll fully participate in the coming season, and not hang about amongst the pot plants avoiding all and sundry. Beatrice's mother is quite desperate to marry her off. Beatrice is quite determined to remain a spinster.What Beatrice hasn't counted on is inheriting a dilapidated bookstore from an eccentric aunt. With the support of her friends from the Mayfair Ladies Knitting League (Yes, more than a knitting circle!) Beatrice is determined that the building be turned into a meeting place for the club with the help of a certain 'carpenter' before he returns to the navy. One Mr. Wright no less! That situation becomes even more charged when a wealthy property developer wants the building and is ready to go to any lengths to ensure he will win.Wright may have a roguish twinkle in his eye, enjoy reading Beatrice's gothic romances and flexing his gorgeous muscles (very hilarious) but he's nowhere near hardened rogue material. Although Beatrice and Wright's relationship does go delightfully Rogue!A nicely executed tale taking a more original and humorous tack than most Wallflower/Bluestocking meets Rogue tropes.A HarperCollins ARC via NetGalley
    • 2/5
      I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. He was the most maddening of men.Lady Beatrice Bentley only wants to spend her time isolated and writing her etymology dictionary but the carpenter renovating her brother's mansion keeps interrupting her with noise and his manly physique. Stamford Wright is normally a ships carpenter for the Royal Navy but is stepping in to help his father. He can't help but tease and tweak the Duke's sister's nose as she acts like a princess locked in a tower. When Beatrice promises to give her mother one more season to try and marry her off, she's off to London and ready to leave the carpenter who gives her such confusing feelings. However, Ford has discovered the Duke's land agent is embezzling and has to get in contact with the Bentley family again. There he gets press ganged by a group of lady non-knitters and hopelessly entangled with Beatrice. The attention she was lavishing on the books made him feel restless and...jealous?Beatrice was a character that definitely was supposed to connect with booklovers, our introduction has her constantly spouting lines about how much she loves words and books. Beatrice has Palsy, which caused the right side of her face to droop, a doctor recommended when she was younger that she read the dictionary out loud to exercise those facial muscles. Hence, her love of words, because she thought if she couldn't be pretty (she overheard her mother and father bemoaning her looks) she at least could be smart. In this regard, her character felt a bit overdone, after awhile it felt like an A.I. had written the passages after sourcing tons of “booklover” lines and references. Ford would do everything in his power to help her win this battle.Although he was probably going to regret it.Ford had cute moments with his teasing but for the first half of the book he definitely came off as a young twenty-five year old; there was something too light and silly about his posturing as a scoundrel. He's sensitive to the fact that Beatrice is a Duke's sister and he is way below her class level because his mother was disowned by her father for marrying below her station. When Beatrice inherits a bookstore and it turns out that the grandfather that disowned his mother and him wants the property, he declares he's Beatrice's carpenter to renovate and joins in the battle to keep the property from his grandfather's clutches. It's a bit coincidental but easy enough to go along with to keep Beatrice and Ford together. What was it about this prim, bookish lady that ripped his resolve to shreds like a gale tearing at a canvas sail?The beginning held promise with Ford teasing and Beatrice shyly responding but I never felt their emotions and relationship gain any depth in the middle. It started to feel like these two were just spouting lines at each other instead of interacting or playing off one another. Beatrice eventually proposes that they become limited time lovers, she still wants to be a spinster and he's still going to be off sailing. I'm not sure I would call this move forced but it felt like a mechanism to simply add some sex scenes, instead of a development to or in their relationship. Their attraction just never developed any depth for me and I missed that emotion that pulls me into a couple's story.She wanted to be close to him and she felt no shame about it. Beatrice belonged to a group called Mayfair Ladies Knitting League, where no knitting is actually done but the members work and support each other towards their goals and achievements, it's why she wants to keep the bookstore, to turn it into a clubhouse. Two of her close friends, Isobel and Viola, are members and highlighted in the story, obviously to entice for future books in the series. There are a couple quick scenes with the ladies together but I would have liked more interactions that delved into their relationships. There's a very small side plot about a hidden meaning in the letter Beatrice's aunt left her but I honestly felt it was pointless and only added to the starting to feel overly long feeling the second half of the book started to get. The ending felt hackneyed and a bit hokey with everyone getting gathered together and suddenly decades of villainy is stopped because of “love” and Beatrice and Ford get to be together a bit too easily. This was light on the depth but booklovers will certainly see themselves in Beatrice and enjoy those sweet moments.