Review: A delight for the price.  Ignore all typos for optimal pleasure.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2012
This little book has an overused plot about a very rakish rake and a bluestocking, yet it was a superb read from beginning to end and I never once felt exasperated or annoyed by silly plot contrivances.  The e-book is full of ridiculous typos, spelling, punctuation and even grammar errors, but I just concentrated on the story and pretended it didn't matter to me.  Seriously, the romance is good enough to let it all slide.This is a bit like Georgette Heyer'sVenetia.  Our rake here is as superbly rakish yet tortured and noble at the same time as Heyer's rake was.  The heroine is as delightful as Venetia.  She's a 28-year-old educated woman who unexpectedly finds herself the guardian of her newly-orphaned nephew.  She and the nephew move to a cottage near that oh-so-charismatic rake.He and she meet cute and the rest of the story is a great fall into love with excellent dialogue and pacing.  All the characters are well drawn, the interactions between the nephew and his aunt who at first knows nothing about children are spot on, and heck, there's even a dog in the mix.  I was surprised and delighted by this book.  (Keep in mind that as a historical romance, it's much more romance than historical, but I didn't care.)