Review: Love is a Rogue

📖 Thank you Avon Books for the complementary ARC of Love is a Rogue! Out October 27, 2020! 📖

This was my first Lenora Bell and I adored everything about this story! 😍 If you love Tessa Dare and historical romances with a rom-com tone, you must add Love is a Rogue to your TBR immediately. This is the first book in the Wallflowers vs. Rogues series and it was such a delightful read from start to finish. It’s evident from page one that the characters are inspired by Gaston and The Beast from Beauty and The Beast, and I was all about a heroine inspired by The Beast! 👏

Beatrice has palsy and can’t smile or look as perfect as society thinks the sister of a duke should. She’s bookish and a total wallflower when it comes to balls and society events (she quite literally hides behind plants to read instead). I loved her, she vowed never to marry and is a little skeptical/grumpy about the possibility of love. 

Ford is a delightfully swoony hero. He’s the carpenter working on her brothers mansion and he’s in the Royal Navy. The first scene with Ford and Beatrice together is EVERYTHING. Ford scales the wall of the mansion to crawl into her window, and the way Lenora Bell wrote the scene is delightful and funny. I audibly squealed when reading it 😂 The chemistry between these two is perfection! It’s a bit of a slow burn to get to the steam, but the banter between Ford and Beatrice makes it all worth it 🔥 

I loved that Beatrice was such an obvious feminist. She has a knitting group with her friends that they use as a cover to get together, and her friends are such joyful characters! I laughed so many times while reading this story, especially during scenes with Beatrice’s friends and the other side characters. Lenora Bell has a real knack for writing detailed and engaging characters, and I cannot wait for the next book in this series!

I loved this book so so much! Love is a Rogue was amazing and deserves all the stars! 🥰💜 Kellisa