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Always a Scoundrel (Mass Market Paperback)

by Suzanne Enoch (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books (1 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0061456756
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061456756
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,586 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lord Bramwell Johns is a wastrel, a rake, a scoundrel...and proud of it. The second son of the Duke of Levonzy, Bram is bored enough and reckless enough to break into the homes of his peers just for the excitement. But then he overhears a couple arranging the marriage of their daughter to an even more notorious rake than Bram...Lady Rosamund likes to think of herself as practical. If she has to marry, a titled rake is better than a penniless gentleman. But what about an untitled rake? For suddenly Brams appears everywhere she is, and doing his best to sweep her off her feet. If Rose isn't careful, she may believe that reformed rakes really do make the best husbands...

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3.0 out of 5 stars Implausible reformation of a rake, 11 Jun 2009
By Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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'Dazzling, delicious and delightful' says the front cover in a quote from Karen Hawkins. Well no, I don't agree with that description of this book, although it had some moments of charm.

Could a young boy actually be a wizard with a tame owl? Could Mr Darcy really defy family expectation and marry Elizabeth Bennet? The key to plunging deep into a story and being taken to another place is plausibility. It may be odd or unexpected, but if the book writes the situation well enough, we can believe it.

The problem with 'Always a Scoundrel' by Suzanne Enoch is that I found two central premises entirely implausible. She's working hard at a new-ish angle on the reformed rake type of story, but unfortunately I was in no way convinced why the rake, Lord Bramwell Johns, was reformed by heroine Rosamunde. And, even less believable was the strange plot of the Duke of Cosgrove to marry Rosamunde in order to degrade her. Why was he so keen to do that? It just didn't add up at all. So I spent most of the book not believing in the situation in which the characters found themselves. And that doesn't make for satisfying reading.

I was even less convinced that Rosamunde, a gently-bred woman from the aristocracy, would (a) understand the rough words that Cosgrove said to her (to be insulted by them), and (b) would decide to behave in quite the way she did to spoil his prize of a virginal bride. Some things feel like they could only happen at the pen of an author, rather than in real life.

Despite these rather glaring problems with the story for me, it did improve as the tale moved along. The final third of the book, where Bram was trying to reform and trying to rescue Rose from a potentially disastrous marriage, was much more satisfying. I still found implausibilities everywhere, and felt that Bram's final method of dealing with Cosgrove rather unheroic, but it was at least more interesting a story at that stage.

As a reader I find it hard to appreciate rakes, reformed or otherwise, and Bram was no different. His former wild lifestyle didn't appeal to me and I wasn't entirely convinced that Rose could keep him on the straight and narrow, or indeed why her influence so changed him. But I suppose that this is fiction and that it's escapism and fantasy. For this reader, however, a little more plausibility would have gone a long way.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2009
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4.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining read, 13 Jun 2009
I really enjoyed this book. Of course, like most books of this genre, it is riven with implausabilities and ridiculous historically-inaccurate behaviour but I found it an enthralling read, all the same. Bram was an interesting character and offered a bit more than the average alpha hero. Suspend disbelief and get stuck in!
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