The Rake (Davenport, #2) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

Dec 31, 2008 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bad-boy-rake-or-rogue, flawed-hero, angsty-read, owned-copy, aar-top-100-romance, bbw-heroine, favorites, beauty-is-in-the-eye, historical-romance, regency

Another example of how romantic fiction is not fluff. This book was deep as the ocean. I loved how this book brought together two people who had been hurt or damaged by life, and helped them to find peace and love.

The Rake is an excellent portrayal of a person suffering from alcoholism. And coming from a family where both side has members who were alcoholics, I can testify to this. Reggie reminded me of a few of my uncles. They could have been better men had they not been under the influence of ...more

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Feb 26, 2009 ♡Karlyn P♡ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: steam-warm, genre-historical, read-2009

What a GREAT historcial regency-era romance. The passion, desire and tension is taught between the hero/heroine, but in a typical 90's style regecy romances there was very little bedroom action. But I swear I didn't miss it as the romance and tension was so good.

The story centers around Alys, a 30-year old spinster working as a land manager at a country Estate. And Reggie, a wealthy commoner who takes ownership of the estate where Alys works and is shocked to discover a woman running the proper ...more

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Jul 29, 2009 Juliana Philippa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance-historical, hr-hero-not-drop-dead-gorgeous-gasp, 2009-reads, hr-sizzling-chemistry, 4-half-to-5-romance-books, hr-emotional-read, favorite-romance-heroines-ever, 0-own-in-dead-tree-form, hr-light-mystery-subplot, 5-plus-stars

Absolutely utterly fantastic!! Wow—a definite reread. Completely distracted me from my homework, but it was just so wonderful. I was glad to read a good Putney book after finding her most recent release pretty weak. The Rake, however, is not weak at all, but rather completely 100% great!!!

One of the greatest things about this book was that it tackled the very serious issue of alcoholism extremely well, dealt with it compassionately, and portrayed it very vividly/starkly. I *never* get emotional ...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Kelly rated it did not like it

After reading someone's review that this book was amazing I was eager to read it.
Guess it is true that reading is so subjective.
I found the book so slow, I never really connected with the h/h.
After page 185 I still was not emotionally invested at that point I was going to finish. I stuck with it. I won't do that again. I will probably stay away from Mary Jo Putney.
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Jan 14, 2009 Cindy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: keepers

Good read. FYI this is a rewrite of The Rake and the Reformer. Has a bit more intensity that R & R - we have both versions on our keeper shelves.

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Dec 06, 2009 Liz B rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance

4.5 stars.

Oh, how I miss long romances. It seems like everything now has way too much white space on the page. This was long enough to allow some beautiful character development, and I was able to be absorbed in the story for more than an hour or two.

This is a story about redemption and transformation--and what I liked about it most is that the original title (The Rake and the Reformer) is misleading. Reggie is in fact reformed, but not by Alys. He does it himself. Loving Alys is part of Reggie' ...more

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