Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #4) By Sarah MacLean

Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It took me a while to start this book, it's just that somehow for some reason I was afraid to start. But now I finished.

I liked the book, but I won't go as far as to say it's my favorite, My favorites by Sarah Maclean are Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake from the Love By Numbers series, and No Good Duke Goes Unpunished from The Rules of Scoundrels series.

Since the Previous series Love by Numbers I was curious abut Georgiana, and I won't deny the shock I received when I knew she was the mysterious Chase, and the only thing I could think of was WOW!, like she's amazing, she went all the way from being a single mo at the age of 19 to an owner and founder of one of London's most successful gaming hell's. What a women! ^^

And Duncan was in a way similar to the other owners but a bit different, if I need to compare him to someone it would be to Cross, in a way he gave the same impression, because Bourne and Temple are more ruthless. He was the kind who sets his sight on something he goes and gets it, most of the book pictured him chasing after something or someone.

What I most liked in this book were the secondary characters:

- The 3 other owners of the club were hilarious, like some matchmaking mama, in a way they wanted to pay Chase back, because she had a huge part in helping all three of them.

- I liked her daughter Caroline, she was smart and witty for her age, and she was the thing that solved the " I'm not fit for you" issue

Overall, *thumps up*

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No Good Duke Goes Unpunished (The Rules of Scoundrels, #3) By Sarah MacLean

No Good Duke Goes Unpunished by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Did I ever say that I have a very special weak knee for hulking handsome brutes *sigh*, Temple became one of my favorite characters, I just loved him since the beginning of the series and loving him more I did.

Temple was falsely accused of murder, yet he built himself from scratch, and I loved how he was with his friends, with the kids, he wanted a normal life with wife and children. He thought himself dark, all brute force that can squash anyone, but little did he knew that he was an absolute darling.

Mara .. For the most part of the story I hated her, it didn't matter that because of her Temple was exiled and labeled a murderer, she kept insisting that she haven't taken all that from him, she kept insisting he didn't suffer, that he was rich and titled. She kept the truth he deserved t know from him for a single sentence he told her "Nothing you can say will make me forgive you" and her deceit kept going on and on. And truthfully it was Temple that made me like her eventually, he understood her, made her say things she didn't want to admit.

- I cried at the scene where Temple was stabbed and how his friends ached for him, I sensed the deep affection they held for one another and loved it, I liked the only amusing part in that scene when Bourne and Cross announced to their wives that they love them

- Loved the scenes where Temple interacted with the children, the boxing lesson, introducing them to manhood and all

- Adored him all the more when he was always with her pig, I bet it presented a humorous image, a hulk of a man carrying a piglet XD

- Sarah MacLean can create such sexy scenes, in each book of hers I can't help but have one sexy favorite scene

Overall, *thumps up*

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One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels, #2) By Sarah MacLean

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a wonderful book!!
I loved the idea of the sister and the friend of the first couple coming together, they were so delightfully different, so unique.

Phillipa "Piper" was such a blue stocking, that you can't help but to love, I loved how she unnerved Cross when they first met, she's stalking him, him backing away trying to cover up XD.

Cross confused me at the beginning honestly, from the first book he was pictured as the one with the devil may-care attitude, but his magnetic attraction to Piper was confusing, it wasn't like Piper when she fell in love by the day and it wasn't love at first sight. anyway I loved how he potently cared about her and loved her.

What I liked about the book:

- I liked their interactions and how he was extremely possessive of her

- I liked every time he told himself I'm not asking and then .. he asks

- I honestly liked Castleton, to me he didn't look like the simpleton everyone imagined him, but a good hearted man that didn't care what people thought about him, and I liked his ending.

- I liked how Piper interacted with all of Cross's acquaintances from Temple to Knight to the prostitute to the pride and prejudice doorman and finally to the mystery lady at the gaming table.

- Loved Piper daring act that resulted n a riot, I would have have wagered just to see knight's face *snickers*

- I have to admit that the chair scene was one hell of an erotic sexy one.

- Cross kinda broke my heart with every interaction he had with his sister, and I was a bit disheartened when they didn't mention at the end a resolved ending to their conflict

- And Cross was an idiot under the hazard table, but he did the smart thing at the end *sigh*

Overall, *thumps up* and I'm looking forward to Temples story.


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A Rogue by Any Other Name (The Rules of Scoundrels, #1) By Sarah MacLean

A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the second series by Sarah MacLean that I have read so far and I have to say I'm being enamored, her writing was so exquisite it contained all the necessary ingredient from the writing to the plot to the characters, a touch of shy/bold heroine, a sever dose of mean ass of fine specimen of male, plenty of funny comments/moments and Viola one great book.

Penelope was the abandoned fiance of the Hero from Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart, she's the quiet obedient type, but even then she looked obvious that she didn't want the engagement. I liked her, she was caring, gentle, when I read about her, I feel serene somehow she gives me this huge sense of relaxation that I can't help, even on her intense parts. I liked how she went to the gaming club from the other side, her way with the doormen, her way in ordering the men, Penelope was poor Penelope no more (that's what I liked mostly about her). She's the type that you can easily figure her emotions out, since the beginning it honestly felt that she stayed a spinster just to be with him, waiting fr him just to come back ... her Micheal.

The stupid asshole Bourne he was a cruel handsome man, will use whatever means if it was to get what he wanted, and what he wanted was through Penelope. It was cruel taunting Penelope since the beginning (even though it lessened throughout the book till it vanished entirely) that she was just a means to an end, and their marriage wasn't a love match just an act. He kept the farce for a long while, and whenever his true feelings for Penelope wanted to emerge he evaporated them, he didn't even wanted to admit that he cared for her, her feelings, her happiness, he only wanted to believe that he was a cold man. But he did care, and I loved him for that, he was the typical bad boy sort who would prefer wounding people than show how they honestly feel, but Penelope cracked his shell.

What I Noticed in the book:

- I liked that it was a continuation of the Love By Numbers series, even though it happened after a long while, but it was continuation nonetheless, were I was familiar with some of the characters, in a way it's like a reunion.

- Adored the letters parts, at first it was cute how they were so attached to each other it looked obvious through their correspondences, and later when he stopped and she kept on going, it looked like that her letters to him were a huge part of her that it took her a long long while till she finally admitted defeat and stopped.

- I liked the part when they finally reunited how happy she was seeing him, even he wasn't as enthusiastic as she was but it cracked his facade as well, she touched his cheeks and he hugged her, and oh how I loved the smack, and honestly I was a bit regretful that their wasn't more of it *snickers*

- I liked the idea of them as childhood sweethearts, even if they pretended at the beginning, it was true.

- I liked Bourne's interactions with his friends, and their interactions with Penelope and especially when they taunted Bourne about Penelope XD

Overall, *thumps up*

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Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart (Love By Numbers, #3)

Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I strongly believe I just got to add one more author to my authors list, Sarah MacLean is a great writer that makes the reader enthralled with her words, compelled to the story to the very end.

I feel that this book might hold the same sentiments to me as the previous one, I liked the story at a whole, Loved Juliana, and her whole family, I loved Simon but he in times pissed me off, when he kept pushing her for his family's reputation, like ALWAYS! felt sorry for him in the end.

- Juliana: brave, bold, passionate and caring.

- Simon: rigid, cold on the outside but a volcano that is waiting to be irrupted and all it needed was Juliana

- I hated the mothers from both sides, to me even though they are different but it looked like the similarities are more frequent than naught ( and I noticed they didn't tell us how they solved the issue with Juliana's mom yet)

- I noticed that the dress maker plays the role of the fairy godmother in all of series, her dresses play a great role here

- I hated the intense focus on scandals here in this book, its not that I can blame them, and its similar to book 2 wherein then it was focused on trust

Overall, *thumps up* (it's morning so excuse me if there isn't much)

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Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love By Numbers, #2) By Sarah MacLean

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Considering my standard rating of 4's or 5's, I couldn't help but rate this one was 3, it's not that it's bad or awful, but its for the fact that it had plenty of things that annoyed me. mostly with the heroine.

The Hero was the twin brother from the prequel book Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake and his appearance there gave me a hint of a romantic soul. I wasn't disappointed, he appeared to be more romantic than the heroine actually. He mostly spent his whole life chasing after women, not in the usual sense. First it started as looking for his mother, then it moved after a women he thought he loved, and now with another women he loved. The poor guy, I really felt sympathetic of him, he spent most of the book trying to please the heroine, I know he did some idiotic things, He's a man!! of course he's going to do something idiotic, but the things was he acknowledged his mistakes and apologized and tried to redeem himself to her.

The heroine to me was another matter, I liked her when she interacted with characters other that the Hero, cause when she does interact with him she just end up mucking things up. She's strong, independent and fiercely protective of her own. But when it comes to Nick she finds faults in him, thinks the worse of him, doesn't believe or trust him and every single time gets mad at him. It kinda annoyed me that her reactions were that intense, which led him every time to ask for her forgiveness, and personally I didn't think the faults were that drastic or singularly blamable. I won't ignore that she tried to fix everything in the last part, and I think it was finally good that she admitted and realized her error in judgment and tried to mend it.

- I have to admit my most enjoyable part were the cross-dressing staff, I couldn't help my bark of laughter when I first read that the butler and the stable-master were a "She"

- I also loved the other couple, even though their match wasn't that much of a talk in this book, but I honestly was more interested in their romance than the main couple, they were just so endearingly adorable, the hulk brute of a Turk and a simple blond English miss, the differences between them was a huge attraction to my interests.

Overall, a good read *thumps up*

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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers, #1) By Sarah MacLean

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh how Wonderful the book was!! from the summary I knew it would be interesting but I didn't realize then how much exciting . Since this book is my first by Sarah MacLean, I realized that this book was a great start in getting to know a great author, it contained all the pleasures I absorb in books.

Callie was a great heroine, I kinda felt close to her, since I'm similar in behavior and body shape, which made me feel for her. She the good girl, the perfect in manners, reputation but not in the area of marriage. Men to seek her, people keep telling her that she's a spinster and she should be glad if anyone looked at her twice, which thoroughly infuriated me. Callie was a good-hearted person, but enough was enough, since shes basically far away on the miserable shelf she decided to make her stand and do what she always desired and wanted to try, which resulted in creating The List. Her love for Gabriel was so pure and deep and started with a kiss that in my opinion shock His axis.

Gabriel was a lewd gentlemanly hero, I loved him *sigh*. To me he was always misunderstood for him debauched reputation, I loved how he cared for his sister, but especially how he cared for Callie and her reputation more than she did herself. He was the best touch in the book, lewd, humorous, he gave every scene the credit it deserved. And in a very ironic twist of fate he seemed to be in the right place and time whenever Callie wanted to do one f her items on the list. What I really truly loved about him, is that he saw Callie as beautiful and he always wanted her to realize how beautiful he saw her and have more self confidence.

- I loved the parts were Callie was cross-dressing to sneak in to places, and how she always ended up with Gabriel accompanying her and escorting her back.

- I loved the side characters, especially the brothers and sisters from both sides, and I have to say I like the mistress and the dress-maker after their scene at the dress shop.

Overall, *All fingers up*


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