I love the story....it reminded me of of stories written by Lisa Kleypas, Sarah Maclean, Juliana Gray (well.....these are some of my favourites). There's witty banter, the bumbling yet adorable hero, his mysterious and intriguing friends (who will get stories of their own for sure), the kickass but sometimes silly heroine and the noble wildcard character (guess which one).The premise is simple, girl wants to steal something from the hero for reasons of her own, girl was caught so hero decided to have some fun with the girl, then hero's plan backfired. Hero has no idea who the girl is - cue friends coming to the rescue. Along the way, hero realizes that she's THE ONE. The story is light, sweet and has a reasonable ending (no soppy HEA with kids running around and hero thanking his lucky stars etc). Makes you look forward to the other stories starring the rest of the friends.(Sigh)...if only these stories get turned into some TV series or something..... I guess I'm more of a prude than I realized, because this book and I got off to a bad start when the very first scene involved the hero and heroine meeting for the first time, and her promptly (and cheerfully) surrendering her virginity to him. It rather went downhill from there, with several Too Stupid To Live moments, a hero and heroine who BOTH really deserved to be horsewhipped on occasion, and quite a bit of utter ridiculous behavior from people who were supposedly in the upper echelon of society. Don't get me wrong, it was delightfully steamy, with plenty of naughty romps, but in the end, that wasn't enough to save me from characters that I wanted to throttle for more than half of the book. Just not my cuppa - 2.5/5 Stars.
What do You think about Devil's Thief: A Loveswept Historical Romance (2014)?
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