Reviews for Wicked Rake, Defiant Mistress

The average rating for Wicked Rake, Defiant Mistress based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-12-17 00:00:00 Kaye Steeno I wasn't sure what to expect with this story. I knew the plot was familiar, Lady down on her luck and ends up mistress to the Lord, and never have read anything from Ann Lethbridge before I kinda expected a kind of cookie cutter story. That was not at all how this book turned out. She took the familiar theme and then made it fresh and exciting. I know I will be looking for more of her books and if I had paid money for this book I would have thought that I surely had gotten my moneys worth. Eleanor (h), while her twin brother was out of the country fighting the war, had lost most of her family money. She had her younger sister and some loyal family servents to take care of and not really seeing any other options decided to become a highwayman. She blames Garrick (H) for calling in the mortage of her estate and so she holds up his carraige one night. Garrick, feeling guilty over something he was wrongly (unknowingly to him) accused of, couldn't wait to join the army. He just had to settle some things with his uncle first.On his way to see his uncle he's held up by some women highwayman and a ring that was his fathers was taken. Now he has to stay long enough to catch her and get his father's ring back. There are many twists and turns in this story befor they get their HEA but it's a fun adventure and a great story.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-04-26 00:00:00 Thomas Morse Another disappointing freebie. Not really bad, not poorly written but not really good either. Both characterization and timelines seemed off to me. Let's start with the characterization. The hero is supposedly a rake. However he's just 24, sometimes behaves as if he just turned 18 and his main achievement to confirm his rake reputation is not having had a relationship for more than 3 months. At 24, it did not seem that weird to me and certainly not enough to warrant such a fake moniker and reputation. In my book, he is not and never would be a real rake. Then the defiant heroine. Supposedly she's 3 years after her come-out that did not occur - hence 20-21. However she behaves with all the maturity of a 16-17 years old. At best! And the brain the size of a pea. How she could have squandered her family money like she did was unrealistic at best and her remedies to that situation completely brainless. Every time she appeared on the page, I wanted to slap her back into reality. TSTL is not an adjective I often use but I really can't think of another better one for her. Her brother is an overbearing and inconsistent ass, who did not seem to be the same age as the heroine at all; though as twins, they should have been. The younger sister made her come-out 4 years after the beginning of the story. And I believed during the whole first part that she could not have been more than 8 years old, 10 if I really stretched it.