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“Missing you is profoundly inconvenient, I’ll have you know. I have things to do and places to be, and all the while I’ll feel like I’ve mislaid a piece of my soul and I won’t get it back until I see you again. That can’t be normal.”

The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian

April 11, 2020 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I should have read this one much closer to the previous two in the series, The Soldier’s Scoundrel and The Lawrence Brown Affair because so many of our previous characters reappear here and are woven into the plot. As a reader you can tell that Sebastian was getting more comfortable in her writing, overall, this book is stronger than the previous two, even if Sebastian shortchanges the plot a smidge in the final third. I continue to really like how Cat Sebastian builds her stories: […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, faintingviolet, LGBTQ romance, M/M historical romance, queer author, read harder challenge, read women, the ruin of a rake, The Turner Series

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, faintingviolet, LGBTQ romance, M/M historical romance, queer author, read harder challenge, read women, the ruin of a rake, The Turner Series ·
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I seriously can’t decide which book in this trilogy is my favorite. I love them all.

December 30, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

I’m so into this author right now, and I’m so upset she has only published three books so far. I want her next book right frickin now. (Out in two weeks, already pre-ordered.) This is the last book in the Turner series, and it’s just as good as the first two. We met our heroes last book. Julian Medlock is the brother of Eleanor Standish, Lawrence’s science friend, and Lord Courtenay his son’s uncle. Courtenay is the titular rake, an infamous scapegrace who has spent […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, historical romance, m/m, M/M historical romance, narfna, romance, the ruin of a rake, The Turner Series

narfna's CBR9 Review No:121 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, historical romance, m/m, M/M historical romance, narfna, romance, the ruin of a rake, The Turner Series ·
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