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Book Review: 's Lord of Scoundrels
by
Loretta Chase
historical romance that was published by Avon Publications on January 1, 1995 and has 375 pages.
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Third in the Scoundrels historical romance series.
In 2003 and 2001, Lord of Scoundrels won the Romance Readers Anonymous Award for Best All-Time Romance Novel, and in 2003, 2002, and 2001, it won the Best All-Time Historical Romance. In 1996 Lord of Scoundrels won the RITA Award by Romance Writers of America for Best Short Historical. In 1995, it won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Regency Historical Romance. In 1994, it won the Best Historical Single Title Romance. I’m not sure how it won some of these awards over several years . . .
My Take
This was terrible albeit an interesting tale that I slogged through. It was obvious and bore a slight resemblance to the dialog, mores, or culture of the time period.
I will give Lord of Scoundrels this much, Chase does not conform to the usual path an historical romance takes but has both Dain and Jess thumbing their noses at convention and rescuing each other along with a very young man.
The Story
Lord Dain lost his mother when he was 8-years-old when she ran off with another man and his father shipped him off to boarding school to get rid of him. Never knowing love, young Dain grew up believing that women were good for only one thing, and it was best if he simply bought that. Then he finds himself challenged in this regard when he encounters Jessica Trent over a very naughty watch in Paris.
It’s struggle from then on for each of them to stay away from the other. Jess is too smart to be taken in and Dain is in too much lust.
