The Rogue Not Taken (Scandal & Scoundrel) Paperback – 29 Dec. 2015

I am a huge Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn fan and was looking for a new author to read. OMG I absolutely love this book and am already ordering the next book in the series. The heroine is brave, kind and vulnerable and the hero is perfect to match her. A must read for anyone who loves regency love stories!

I have found a new author. Real characterisation, engrossing storyline. I loved both characters. I laughed and I cried. Great read

I'm a big fan of this author and this book was just as good as all the rest.We first met Sophie in the story of Chase and West ( Never Judge a Lady by her Cover) along with a mention of the Marquess of E. We don't get to meet him other than Anna 'choosing' him as Sophie's reward for her kindness.I agree with some of the other reviews that Sophie's family sound a bit ridiculous but surely that's the point of the story?What did I love about this book and why would I recommend it?Sarah's writing is once again, funny, romantic, expressive, colourful and just erotic enough to make it hot without being pornographic.I loved King. That lazy, sprawling, insolence is like cat nip. His humour, his kindness, his sarcasm, and the descriptive way he kisses.... Just yum.Sophie was a delight; sharp, witty and with a backbone of steel.The growing romance between the two is believable, paced and well written and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series. Sarah please, please write Sera and the Duke of Haven's story! I know there is one there.......

I liked this book, but the problem is that I expect much more from Sarah MacLean. The story was fast and went along at a terrific pace, and I liked the hero's and heroine's characters. In truth, I preferred the heroine's character, because she was feisty, knew what she wanted and what she didn't want, and was prepared to go after it; she was honest with herself and mostly with others, even to the extent of revealing her feelings to the hero when she knew he wouldn't return those feelings. As others have noted, the hero's character was really stretching credulity; he was 33, I believe, and suffered from an earlier disastrous love, but he went around London like the Love Fairy, pretending to ravish aristocratic women who actually wanted to marry someone 'ordinary' rather than the aristocratic person chosen for them because he believed in love matches? And he had been doing this for 15 years? What I didn't like, however, was the rushed way in which the story went from episode to episode - the best part was the road trip, when the couple got to understand one another, and their mutual attraction, but after the return to King's home, it became so fractured that some parts seemed to have been thrown in for the sake of bringing the story to its conclusion! Most particularly, the heroine's family never came across as real people - the mother seemed to have little to say other than telling her daughters to watch their language, and the father who the heroine adored had nothing to say to flesh out his character [since we didn't meet him until the end of the book, I really thought there was going to be some depth revealed to the man] instead of which he was complicit in prostituting his youngest daughter in order to restore the family fortunes. The sisters didn't seem to have any bond between them, except for the 'gentle' eldest sister, and that was such an obvious ploy because she has been wronged by the duke to whom she is married and whose child she is carrying.I hope this is a sort of settling in to the new series - Warnick, the Scot, sounds great and his is the next story, I believe. I hope the 'gentle' sister gets a happy conclusion; hers was the only situation in the entire story that made me feel quite moved!I have enjoyed the previous series by this author, and I hope she is back on form soon! As another reviewer said, a lot of repetitious words and phrases, and the language is far too modern. The latter isn't such a problem if the story engulfs you totally, but it wasn't the case for me here.

This was a rollercoaster of a story, with great humour, intense emotion and lots of love! What more do you need really?

Good reads all of them.

Thoroughly enjoyed this regency romp especially when Sophie and King are at each other's throat bickering their way to his pile in Cumbria. The banter was a great deal of fun. Sophie is the 'unfun' daughter of a family of notorious social-climbing sisters who gets into a bit of a pickle when she decides to stow away on the coach of the womanising and unrepentantly disreputable Marquis of Everly ... It turns out to be a delightfully bumpy road to love (and Cumbria).

It was an excellent read. Good, well drawn characters. And a great plot. Moments of fun as well as some quite sad moments. An excellent romp with overtones of Julia Quinn. I really enjoyed the book.