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    The Rogue's Return
    The Rogue's Return
    The Rogue's Return
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Rogue's Return

    Written by Jo Beverley

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Rogue's Return continues the popular Company of Rogues series by New York Times best-selling author Jo Beverley. Simon St. Bride has been in Canada fighting the War of 1812-but the war is over now, and Simon is ready to come home. Before he leaves, however, Simon must defend a young woman's honor. What does her past hide? "... an exquisitely sensual love story ... one sublime romance."-Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 24, 2009
    ISBN9781436142489
    The Rogue's Return
    Author

    Jo Beverley

    The NYT bestselling author of over thirty historical romance novels, all set in her native England in the medieval, Georgian, and Regency periods, Jo Beverley firmly believes that reading should be fun, and every book should leave the reader with a smile. You can find Jo on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jo.beverley and at www.wordwenches.com where she blogs regularly.

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    • 3/5
      Simon St Bride is planning to return home to England from Canada along with evidence of wrongdoing in Indian affairs by some British officials. He becomes entangled in a duel that goes wrong and he is forced to marry the niece of a friend. Jane has had a crush on Simon since she met him, but is living a life of lies; she's not who she says she is. Rather than confess she marries him anyway, somehow reasoning that she'll tell him the truth when they reach England and everything will work out. Of course, they fall in love along the way.I was never quite sure why Simon fell in love with Jane. She's kind of whiney and a liar. I thought Simon deserved someone better. I did enjoy the Canada setting and reading about some of the other Rogues.
    • 2/5
      I have been a fan of Beverley for ages...but I couldn't finish this book.

      What bothered me was a disconnect in the kind of relationship being portrayed and the way that Beverley wrote about it. Simon St. Bride and Jane Otterburn are forced to marry; they have had a cordial relationship but no more. Both appear to be pretty mature, self-controlled people; willing to make the best of their circumstances. The romance that follows is therefore, by necessity, of the slow but steady kind; they learn to trust one another, they learn to love one another. A lot of the bonding occurs, for example, while they are clearing out the house of Jane's deceased uncle, or suffering through a long sea voyage.

      What really bugged me were the moments where really extreme, dramatic emotions were inserted into this fairly quiet plot - when Simon said something about a "thunderbolt" revealing his love for Jane I kind of gave up on the book. It is just not a thunderbolt. Really awkward insertions of sexual heat hit me the same way.

      I didn't like Beverley's last book (Shattered Rose) either; I hope she isn't heading downhill.
    • 3/5
      Perfectly good, but not exciting. The characters were interesting and well-presented, the situation was interesting - a clever way to force a marriage. Jancy's great secrets annoyed me, mostly - if she didn't care about him or believed he didn't care about her, she'd have reason to keep quiet, but as it was she should have told him much earlier. And she got off way too easily. The blackmail attempt was almost funny - blackmail him right back! The one wrong note was Simon's father's reaction to his offer - crying just seems out of character for him and in that situation. Whatever. Not bad but it didn't catch me. I'll look for others by her, though - another story may ring the right bells and she certainly can write.
    • 3/5
      This book started out really well with an interesting plot/premise but didn't carry through as well as I would have hoped. It was still very entertaining, but the abrupt ending, seemed to be forced rather than really thought through.
    • 4/5
      In the Rogues series, Simon has been in Canada in search of adventure, and finds it--he's in the middle of a duel instigated because he accused a man of corruption, when Jane, the niece of the friend with whom he's been residing, interrupts, saying that her uncle is dying. Uncle Isaiah, on his deathbed, begs the two to wed, for his niece's protection. Unfortunately, Jane isn't really Jane--she's her illegitimate sister Nan, also known as Jancy. They plan to settle Isaiah's estate, then return to England, but there's the matter of the aborted duel and the associated corruption, the secret hanging over Jancy's head, and the impending death of Simon's uncle and cousin, putting him unexpectedly in line for an earldom. Lots of romance and adventure, and a really nice portrayal of how keeping a big secret (Jancy's true identity) can eat at you.
    • 3/5
      It was nice to revisit the Rogue's -- especially to see how Hal was doing and to visit Dare. While I liked the relationship, Canada scenes, etc. The "drama" of the story is, for lack of a better word, lame. What is it with these historicals when the main character has some horrible secret that she can't tell anyone. She just can't!!!! It would ruin everything!!!! And then you find out that it's a tiny tiny mole on the bottom of her big toe. Like I said lame.