The Rakehell of Roth

De: Amalie Howard

Narrado por: Nina Nato

Lord Winter Vance, a notorious scoundrel and the marquess of Roth, must marry to save his inheritance, but a wife is the last thing he needs. Determined to carry on his rakish ways provoking his straitlaced duke of a father and scandalizing the ton, the minute Winter ties the knot, he dumps his starry-eyed debutante of a bride at his country estate and hies back to London.

But three years later, forgotten in slumbering Chelmsford while her husband gallivants in town, Lady Isobel Vance decides enough is enough, and she's ready to take matters into her own hands. When a case of mistaken identity leads to a devilish dance of seduction and an indelicate wager is made, this marchioness will show her marauding marquess just who he married.

©2021 Amalie Howard (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC

decent story

It probably would have been better had i read and not listened. The reader is annoying.

Entertaining

I have to say…. This sat in my cue for many months before finally I was looking for a re-listen and didn’t recall this one….
The characters are very real, and although I admit to skimming through some of the sex scenes I truly enjoyed this book. As a matter of fact my next action will be to purchase the next one in the series.

The narration was excellent and the maleness of the narrator quickly faded to oblivion. He did fabulous!

Heat Factor: it’s full of chemistry, sex, and talk about sex. It doesn’t read like erotica though!

The perfect follow up to The Beast of Beswick!

This was the perfect follow up to The Beast of Beswick! I have definitely found a new author for me. I was glad to see the continuation of the storyline for these two... the storyline its self was strong and detailed (which i like) I was drawn right into the story and felt as if i could envision the characters and atmosphere. The characters were all very in depth and each had a personality and were well done...even the villains. Im hoping for a continuation for one of the other characters in the book; i would love to see where his path leads. The epilogue was very enlightening (lol) never a dull moment. I highly recommend this audible.

Loved this story! ❤️

I laughed, I cried and swooned - a beautifully written story featuring a very spicy and intelligent heroine and a sizzling yet stubborn hero who pulled at my heart strings. I couldn’t get enough of Lord Roth! 🥰

A fun follow up

Definitely recommend reading Beast of Beswick first, but not required. Both books in the series were funny and witty. Different than other regency romances I have read, but not in a negative way.

Poor writing and even worse character

Poor writing and even more pathetic, desperate, annoying, weak main character. Not her best effort.

An insult to feminism within a story with no substance.

This story was painful to finish. It started off well, but it got bad very quickly. My main complaints:

1. This is not historical romance. Aside from the stated year and a reference or two to the Regent Prince, and this story can pass for contemporary romance. Two many F bombs, particularly since they’re said by the main characters in instances where a regular person today would not say them.

2. Incongruous behaviors. The heroine is supposed to be a smart lady, but she spends the whole book making poor decisions risking her safety. She’s also a doormat. The fact that the hero doesn’t recognize her disguises tells me that he’s not very smart either in addition to the grudge he has against his father.

3. Vulgarity is not feminism. This book is an insult to it. I think Astrid in book 1 acted like an empowered woman, but the heroine here is only empowered to be vulgar (language) and to enjoy sex. Nothing wrong with that piece, but what about being independent and assertive?

4. Once the main characters resume their love-making that’s the only thing they do for the remaining of the book. No substance to the story, no real conflict, and predictable “villains.”

In summary, this was a wasted credit. The only reason I finished it it’s because of the performer. I was feeling hopeful about this writer after reading book one, but I won’t dare try another one.

Meh

The sex scenes were nice, the narrator not to bad, but the story was not remarkable. I had a hard time with characters. Isabelle was one contradiction after another. Naive and and yet not, viewing her husband both with fury, and rightly so, if for nothing more than his behavior towards her, and then she sees him and she just forgets 3 years of being ignored and is ready to forgive cause he is hot.
Oliver, and his life long resentment, forgotten in 1 conversation.
Clarissa who is the awesome but so unrealistic as a regency lady. Probably my favorite character.
The story itself was odd although that might have been resolved had I read book 1 in the series.
Overall I just didn’t like it and am sorry.

Silly and boring

This was a waste of money and time. Isabel was ridiculous and immaturity of a 10yr old. Winter was an insipidly dull "hero". I wouldn't recommend this at all.

Enjoyable Heroine

I really wanted to like this book. In fact, up until about halfway through the book I was still really enjoying it.
Isobel is a fantastic heroine, and her best, Clarissa, is just as fabulous.
Isobel marries a rake to escape the clutches of a truly gross guy and because she is in love/infatuated with him. Her hero, Winter, if you can call him a hero, marries her so he can keep his inheritance (which he doesn't give a care about for the rest of the novel and states as much) and because he wants to help save her. Winter's had some loss and it's made him bitter af, of course. And so, he consummates his marriage and then leaves his wife at his hated father's house for over three years without any contact.
The novel picks up at this point, after three years of her husband's affairs and lascivious behaviors being reported in the scandal pages. I won't say it's all true, but it is true that Winter never gave Isobel a second thought. He let all the gossip be printed, encouraged a lot of it (for business purposes, don't you know) and didn't care at all how it made his wife feel. Supporting minor characters tell him he should be better to his wife, and he ignores them or gets annoyed with them by pointing out he shouldn't be a complete bastard. Isobel decides to come to town after it's reported her husband fought a duel for another woman. She's pissed, understandably. She wants to bring him to heel and the author does a great job of putting the reader on her side.
Problem is, I never could root for her to have a HEA with Winter because Winter, time and time again, spurns Isobel and is frequently purposely cruel to her. The author tells us he's trying to protect his heart! He doesn't want love because it leads to ruin! His losses! But these reasons the author gives only feel like excuses. I actually was rooting for her to attempt to find a lover-- as her husband spits out at her more than once-- just so he can feel a taste of the hurt he's shown her. I think if she'd at least attempted to find one, and he would have had to face that prospect, then maybe his level of possessiveness or protectiveness or care might have made a different. But even as he shows his indifference to her, Isobel still wants him. Love, apparently, makes you accept even the worst treatment. Ironically, the reason Winter acts the way he does is because his mother (allegedly) and his sister were treated horribly by the men they loved. But Winter never, not even for a moment, sees that is exactly what he is doing to his own wife. In fact, I wonder if the author even realized the parallel existed. It could have led to Isobel giving an amazing speech or an excellent coming-to-terms with his own words and deeds.
But no. Instead, he still is pushing her away in the last fifth of the book. Then his father (who is a really good guy, Winter was wrong, surprise!) tells him he should go get his wife from the country (where Winter's been trying to get her to go back to the entire novel) and that he does deserve love. Unfortunately, the author does nothing to convince me he deserves Isobel's love. Oh, he feels bad for a few minutes. There's a lackluster love confession (that doesn't feel sincere based on previous actions) where he basically says "I, Lord Winter Yada Yada, love you." And then they have sex. That's it. He doesn't have to work for forgiveness or anything. She just immediately forgives him. Yes, ladies, if a man treats you like you don't exist for three years, then says a bunch of cruel things to you and pushes you away for a month, as long you have a couple of good sexual encounters in there, a simple "I love you" should be sufficient enough to erase all of that hurt and humiliation! It's one of the most unsatisfying conclusions to a romance novel I've ever experienced, and completely undermines the theme of female empowerment in the book. Had his confession had happen two-thirds of the way through the book and Winter had to work at earning Isobel back, this would have been a much better book. But alas, it's not. The hero is excused all his behavior and never truly apologies.
The narrator is okay. Her inflection and emotion is wonderful, but she does sound like (and probably is) an elderly lady when she does all the voices. Her male voices sound almost the exact same as her female ones.
But it's not her fault I didn't like the story.