Review: A Rake for all Seasons
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
Some books beg to be hugged. This is one of them. Jocelyn Vale, after all, is an adorably imperfect hero any red-blooded woman would love to throw her arms around. Then there's the book itself. Holding it to your chest for a few moments might ease the transition as you leave this delightful corner of Regency England and face the fact that you've reached The End. Which, trust me, is the last place you'll want to be.Jocelyn is a rake and a reprobate who died a hundred years earlier while indulging his rakishness and reprobatehood to the hilt. His otherwise-not-too-sinful life earns him what seems to him to be an eternity in limbo. At long last, though, he's offered one more chance. He can go back to earth, but with a mission: he must fix things for the descendants of two families suffering in a vendetta set in motion by his peccadillo. The prize if he succeeds: getting his own sybaritic life back, with all its flitting from pleasure to pleasure.This is a finely crafted story that's very difficult to put down and impossible to read without a smile that stretches from beginning to end. I'm off to find out whether these two authors could possibly do it again.