Review: heartfelt and enjoyable characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
From the first page, this book drew me in.  By chapter 5 I was wanting to scan ahead to see what happened.  Isabelle was forced to leave her beloved home to go to London with her stepmother. Two years before, her father had past away, and Meredith, Isabelle’s step-mother was ready to go back into society.  Meredith rents a house across the street from London’s most reputed scoundrel, Lord Constantine Highborough.  Her intention was to lure Lord Highborough into an affair.  As fate would intervene, Lord Highborough first sights Isabelle across the ballroom and falls hard.  As he is use to having women fall and his feet and do all manner of things to get his attention, Isabelle is too realistic for that.  Give her a garden, and that is all she wants.  After an unexpected meeting in the park, the two are drawn to each other.  Isabelle knows he’s a scoundrel of the worst kind, plus Meredith has her eyes on him, yet she wants him.  Being realistic, she knows he’s not for her.  Lord Highborough has other ideas.  From here the story is cute and cunning.  Lord Highborough is chasing her, trying to convince her he wants her, and Isabelle not trusting him, or herself when she is with him. TO LOVE A WICKED SCOUNDREL is a romantic, charming story.  It will have you rooting for the couple to work through all the rules of London’s ton.  I enjoyed Anabelle Bryant’s ability to write a story that was filled with humor, romance, wooing and secret meetings.  Wonderful book.  Would of gave it more stars if I could.I was given a book from NetGalley to review honestly.