The Virgin and the Rogue by Sophie Jordan
An accidental dosing of an aphrodisiac (from her little sister no less) kicks off opening up Charlotte to expressing her needs… and getting them met by Kingston.
Title: The Virgin and the Rogue
Author: Sophie Jordan
Part of a Series: The Rogue Files Book #6
Genre: Historical Romance
Plot: Charlotte Langley, the quiet and dutiful middle sister is engaged to be married to her childhood sweetheart, despite feeling silenced his terribly overbearing mother and his sisters’ dislike of them.
The night her future in-laws are visiting for dinner with her sister’s husband the Duke, his stepbrother Kingston unexpectedly shows up and is not impressed by the wallflower across the table, as beautiful as she may be. But that night, after Charlotte takes a healing tonic with an accidental aphrodisiac from her botanist sister, she dives into Kingsly’s arms to ease the ache.
After coming face-to-face with his mother’s terrible illness, Kingston is completely uninterested in his past rake ways. Escaping to his stepbrother’s remote estate, he hopes for some solitude to figure out his next steps. The last thing he expects is the wallflower from dinner to jump him in the library.
As Charlotte discovers her inner vixen and Kingston tempts her to be with him again, they both have to discover if they can put aside their preconceived notions and take a chance on love.
Thoughts: I fell for this book. It had such a great mix of yearning with unbridled passion and the desire to buck decorum that always makes historical romance fun to read. I thought Charlotte finding her voice throughout the book was really realistic and that embracing this inner core of herself to protect her wants and desires was truly great.
Her sexual awakening, confusion about the desires she was having, and then the growing pull towards Kingston was so well done. I loved that he never believed her about the tonic causing her to act that way in the library. I was hoping that she and her sister were going to give him a dose at some point!
This book gave me feminism vibes within the construct of the historical setting. When Charlotte’s sisters and Kingston remind her that she has the luxury of not needing to marry to secure her future, it reminded me how lucky we are in modern times to not constantly have to think about that! Like we will not eat and be destitute without a man marrying us. So it was cool that she got to choose Kingston not because she had to be with him, but because she wanted to be with him.
One thing about the rake trope that I don’t always enjoy is that when he meets this woman, his whole personality changes. I liked that in this book, he had already stepped away from his rake patterns and past and so it was the perfect time to meet someone and be willing to contemplate a new future.
McDreamy to McSteamy: McSteamy showing her all the lusty things that a body can do
Classy to Nasty: Classy and PASSIONATE with some risky locations!
Hero rating: 🍆🍆🍆🍆 - He definitely gave a great game of pursuing her, as always was kinda an idiot about whether she liked him, but he recovered well.
Heroine rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 - She was a lady in the street but a freak in the sheets (hehe!)
Overall rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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