Review: review of the thief and the rogue
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2013
This is the first book that I have read from Ms. Rachel Donnelly and I sure was not disappointed!  The hero Hunter the Duke of Wallshire came across as being a very churlish guy just to the heroine “Kay” Katherine Hamilton who was pretty curt to him as well.  Throughout much of the book Hunter and Kay were sparring and fighting that it did get a little bit old.I adored the story Katherine or “Kay” who is quite a nonconformist of a lady loves horses and riding lives freely.  Kay is very sheltered being raised in the country by her loving uncles Fabian and Fergus who are both so hilarious that I loved their characters and reading about them.  I really enjoyed the book because of them!  I did wish that they were in the story more especially Fabian.  When Kay meets Hunter the hero of the piece sparks fly and the physical chemistry is pretty evident.  Hunter offers marriage to Kay to settle a score with her. Hunter and Kay are constantly at each other’s throats with all the quarrelling they do yet fighting the physical temptation of each other distracted me somewhat and I wanted them to just stop acting like they hated each other and just admit they loved each other all ready.I really didn’t understand the plot twist of Phelia her deception to Lord Herrington and him murdering Hartley who is a friend to Hunter but then Kay and Charlie are also involved somehow by association.  I felt that it could have been explained a little bit better. I did notice some spelling errors but not enough to really distract from the story.  Despite my rating of 4 stars I did enjoy the story and will read another book from Ms. Donnelly.