Review: Excellent Love Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Saved by a Rake starts off with Rebecca going through what no woman should ever have to go through. And more tragic she lives in a time when a woman is considered ruined even though she is not at fault. But I loved her fight, her will to rise above idol gossip mongers and try to find happiness in the aftermath.Her parents and brother want to protect her yet they truly are not like the normal society and allow her to remain with them, I am so glad they did, because oh how I love Daniel, rake or not this man is gorgeous. Or as Rebecca calls him an adonis. I agree, and more than that he sees past what was done to her, sees her beauty, wants to protect her. There is an immediate chemistry and this man who did not want to marry until he was ready, may just be rethinking all that. And not just because of his dying fathers ultimatum.Lady Rebecca stopped to admire one of the roses. Still a relatively young Bloom cupped in her hand.“It’s so beautiful…so pure and undamaged.”“It is well protected from the elements here. But flowers which are not so well protected are just as beautiful.”“But not pure.” He blanched. She sounded so defeated – as if by his insult, Newthorpe had stolen the last of her fight. He waited a moment, choosing his words carefully.“There are different kinds of purity my lady. I believe purity in heart and mind are most important. A flower may have a blemish which was cause by a violent storm, but its fragrance will remain sweet and its beauty intact.”Ohhhhhhhhh this rake won me over right then and there with that statement. And right then I was rooting for him to take her and make her his forever. I wanted Rebecca to have her happily ever after.So I read this book in one entire sitting in about 5 hours and OMG I LOVED THIS BOOK. I can not say that enough. How absolutely tender and patient Daniel was with Rebecca, how as much as he did not want to admit to being in love, to falling in love, to thinking he would just marry to have an heir to please his father, Rebecca changes all of that.And Rebecca accepting his hand in marriage thinking it is a nice offer and really her only hope of ever being married learns with Daniels tender touch that marriage and love with a man is not anything like what she first experienced.Of course what is a book without some twists and there are some in here and Daniel and Rebecca certainly have their bumps along the way, but in the end, wow what these two share is so amazing. The love scenes are always so tender, enticing, exciting, titillating and oh make you want to hurry through the in between parts to see how they interact in the next scene, will she explore more, will he be restrained or will he finally just show her everything. Oh man I could not put this book down and once you open it up neither will you.