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Hero unappealing, and heroine the same. Seemed like modern-day characters placed into a jumpy,boring historical plot. The heroine is meant to be bold and desperate to keep her past as a thief secret, but just comes off as silly and unbelievable as she punches the hero in the jaw, and later says "You won't be grinning quite so smugly when my knee smashes into your testiculos." Full of cliches and choppy and clumsy language,like "Kate's scowl quirked into a rueful smile," and "His inner compass was behaving oddly..." and "Ire now animated her features..." this story will probably not please those looking for historical romance true to form.


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To Tempt a Rake Circle of Sin Cara Elliott 9780446541305 Books Reviews

Last year, Regency author Cara Elliott introduced us to the Circle of Sin -a group of scholarly ladies who would rather engage in scientific experiments than make afternoon calls. Elliott released back to back books, To SIN WITH A SCOUNDREL and TO SURRENDER TO A ROGUE, with a hint that the third member of the Circle, Kate, would find adventure and romance in the final book of the series. TO TEMPT A RAKE delivers both a transcontinental adventure and a passionate romance with Comte Giovanni Marco Musto della Ghiradelli. Marco portrays himself as a disinterested rake seeking pleasure, but his façade hides many secrets.

TO TEMPT A RAKE opens in London with Kate - the daughter of an American privateer and a runaway English lady - trying to make peace with her aristocrat grandfather. As Kate tries to find a place in polite society, enter Marco with a mysterious past. They flirt at social functions but Kate keeps her distance to protect her own secrets.

Kate accompanies her Grandfather to his ducal estate for a house party with European diplomats ready to embark for the Congress of Vienna. Marco follows Kate under the guise of entertaining the diplomats when in fact he is there to unmask a traitor. Kate becomes entangled in the web of intrigue as the traitor casts suspicion on Kate as a cover for his exit. Marco and Kate proceed to the Congress of Vienna to prevent an assassination that would disrupt Europe's delicately brokered peace. As Kate and Marco unmask the traitor, they also unmask their feelings for each other. In the end, Elliott delivers another satisfying romantic adventure. The book may be part of a series, but it stands alone in character development.

I enjoyed Kate's growth as a rebellious "American" to a resourceful "lady" who realizes her life, and the world around her, is not all black and white. But the special treat was Marco. Like his famous chocolate namesake, Marco is multilayered and richly fulfilling.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that the publishers released TO TEMPT A RAKE in time for Valentine's Day - it is a classic romance book worthY of Cupid's arrow.
I really enjoyed this book. The details were well written and the plot was clever. Very good romantic scenes. Steamy!
A very enjoyable series.
I was very excited to read this book after reading the first reviews here, but while it was good and worth reading, the love story was not as great as I was expecting/hoping. Furthermore, Cara Elliott's subplots continue to feel rushed IMO and seem to go on mostly outside of the reader's view.

SERIES
This is the last book in the Circle of Sin Trilogy.
Book 1 - To Sin With A Scoundrel (Circle of Sin), Ciara's story (4 stars)
Book 2 - To Surrender To A Rogue, Alessandra's story
Book 3 - TO TEMPT A RAKE, Kate's story

MAIN CHARACTERS
Kate got quite tiresome constantly harping - both in her mind and out loud - about how different she was, her unusual past, the darkness that she had within her, blah di blah di blah. I did feel that she was too stubborn and quick to judge, though in a way it was a nice change to have real flaws in a heroine.

I wish that we had seen more of her vulnerability and/or that she had shown more of that to Marco. There kept being these moments when he would start to be sweet and tender and Kate would be vulnerable, and then she withdraws, which grew quite frustrating (for me at least).

Marco was fun, and had more depth than a lot of the rake heroes we see. I felt that his love of debauchery was authentic, but so was his despair regarding his life and its direction, which oftentimes writers are not able to portray authentically - here, Elliott definitely succeeded.

There are allusions from the beginning about this darkness in both Marco and Kate's lives and this hidden past or secret that haunts them. Personally, I like to know those types of things more towards the beginning of the book than the end. When it's about the main characters, I feel like we understand them more if we're aware upfront, as opposed to this morsel and hint dropping, which maybe I'm just too impatient for.

ROMANCE
I felt that more could have been done with their relationship - much more. Kate and Marco spent most of the book at odds with one another, which starts to overlap with quick and heated love scenes (though they're still at odds), and only in the final scene is everything HEA (in the extreme) ... and I'm not one for corniness, so I found it all somewhat nauseating.

They had a lot in common and I really feel that their relationship could have been one of the strongest ones we've seen recently, but it fell rather flat for me. Besides for the fact that Marco antagonizes Kate and that they're both private and stubborn people, I'm not really sure what the obstacle for their relationship is, yet to have them both just give in at the end without any discussion or resolution felt odd. Ex he's supposedly a womanizer, she is concerned he'll never be faithful ... and then they're both happy and committed.

Along with the subplot, all of these things made the relationship feel too rushed and not fully developed.

BOTTOM LINE
I know I just listed several criticisms, but it was worth reading and for some reason I'm going to hang on to the book for now and not post it on PBS.

NEXT ELLIOTT BOOK
There's a preview at the end of Book 1 in Elliott's new series the Lords of Midnight, Too Wicked to Wed, which comes out at the end of October 2011 (seems so far off!). Not sure yet how I feel about the heroine, Alexa, but I am definitely intrigued by the "hero," who seems to be of the Derek Craven variety ;-) (from Kleypas' Dreaming of You).
Hero unappealing, and heroine the same. Seemed like modern-day characters placed into a jumpy,boring historical plot. The heroine is meant to be bold and desperate to keep her past as a thief secret, but just comes off as silly and unbelievable as she punches the hero in the jaw, and later says "You won't be grinning quite so smugly when my knee smashes into your testiculos." Full of cliches and choppy and clumsy language,like "Kate's scowl quirked into a rueful smile," and "His inner compass was behaving oddly..." and "Ire now animated her features..." this story will probably not please those looking for historical romance true to form.