The Rake
2022 · 733m
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Publisher's Summary Boston’s most infamous femme fatale meets her match in a dangerously mild Englishman who has vowed to never marry in this romantic stand-alone from Washington Post best-selling author L.J. Shen Emmabelle Penrose has cruised through life never needing a man, a plan that has worked stunningly well until about five minutes ago, when she decided she must have a baby. Devon Whitehall is 6’2” of premium DNA, financial security, and British royal titles. Best of all, he fears the one thing she dreads the most: getting hitched. Emmabelle figures it’s a no-brainer when Devon offers his services - sperm and involvement in her future child’s life. What begins as an innocent modern-family arrangement quickly erodes into a web of lies, dark pasts, and unfurled secrets. Inside this chaos, Emmabelle and Devon are forced to face the awful truth - they are capable of love. Even worse, they might feel it toward each other. ©2022 L.J. Shen (P)2022 Audible, Inc.
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This is by far my favorite story from the Boston Belles series.I did want to strangle Bella a couple times, but this was a captivating read.
I'm glad he didn't give up on getting through to her. I absolutely ❤️ everything LJ Shen writes this book included. Devin is part of the richEnglish royal lineage that decided to live in the US, where he meets Emmabelle. Emmabelle is a femme fatale who would rather cut her leg off than let a man have any power over her. They have feelings, but she can't get over letting a man inside and accept the inevitable. Narrators worked well with the book. Joe's British accent was yummy and Maxine was great as always.
The plot was ridiculous,Belle spoke like a teenage boy (what 30 yr old professional, beautiful woman uses words like Bruh and Dude?), and sex scenes were more like 50 shades of Gray but woven in purely to enhance the remainder of a very juvenile and weak plot and poorly developed characters. author's idea of a strong female is very warped.Any professional women reading this will back me up.would not recommend.
Male character sleeps with all of Boston and female character pushes him to do it to punish herself...I tried to continue listening after he details a one night stand he had the night before, then sleeps with the main female, then sleeps with his new fiance...I tried but it just gets worse....not a fan of this title but loved all the others in this series...
Not sure what everyone else was reading/listening to but this was horrible.Joe Arden couldn't save this book - Kind of embarrassed that he actually had anything to do with this. 1. Belle - The MOST immature heroine to date.The fact that she even pointed out when she was acting like a child (at least once a chapter)made it worse. 2. TOO many tropes and not enough follow through. Pick a trope or two and actually build on them.There was easily 6 tropes going on here and neither advanced the story or the characters. 3. How do you make Belle the strong female for 3 entire books and then make her the whiniest weakest heroine ever? So weak. 4. Devon - LOLOLOL What a clown and scumbag. 5. This book had a lot of triggers - reader beware. 6.The chemistry between these two was so forced it was almost non existent.Everything was very clinical and boring. All in all worse book I've purchased since 2020.Glad I was able to get a refund.