Anna Bennett
Author of I Dared the Duke
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Caspar David Friedrich: German Master of the Romantic Landscape--His Life in Paintings (1999) — Translator, some editions — 40 copies
Rembrandt: The Great Dutch Master - His Life in Paintings (DK Art Book) (1998) — Translator, some editions — 37 copies, 1 review
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Kitty is the little troublemaker from book one. Willful, headstrong, clever, orphaned, being raised by a bachelor uncle who has no idea what to do with her. She’s the reason Blake and Hazel met and got their HEA. Kitty? We meet her and kind of forget about her.
Kitty is a young lady in book two, a member with Hazel and Poppy of the little group The Belles of Bellehaven. She’s refined, calmed down a bit, but we can still see her independent streak and determination. But this is Poppy and Keane’s story and we enjoy the trek to their HEA, happy for how Kitty is growing up, how she belongs, but mostly smitten with the two lovebirds.
Book three, though, is all about Kitty. All about all-grown-up Kitty. A talented heiress ready to come into her own. Not so much about getting in trouble these days as knowing her own mind and intending to follow her own path. Which is to become a successful architect. Remember, however, that we are still in the Regency Era and young women don’t really get to do whatever they want without consequences. How is Kitty going to deal with this? By never giving away her heart and never being under the thumb of any man who will try to control her, that’s how.
And now we come to the fun part that Bennett does so well. Enter Leo, childhood friend of Kitty, and an old rival in architectural talent and dreams. When he returns to Bellehaven after several years away, they meet again and Kitty feels something, but she won’t let that little twitch take hold. Nope, no way, not Kitty. She has plans. As for Leo, he has plans too but as soon as he sees her he realizes that childhood crush he came close to acknowledging before chickening out is no long a crush. Nope, now it’s love. Through a series of hilarious misunderstandings where she thinks he’s come back looking for a wife, she offers to teach him to be a rake, to attract women and find that wife, although this soon starts to stick in her throat and grate on her. These two together are laugh-out-loud funny, tender, sweet, hilariously oblivious, and eventually steamy enough to make you break out in a sweat. And, yep, we get our bonus and catch up on Hazel and Blake and Poppy and Keane and everybody else.
Thanks to St. Martin’s Press for providing an advance copy of It Takes a Rake. It was delightful, suspenseful, swoony and totally, completely enjoyable and satisfying. I just hope fantastic author Bennett is busy writing another trilogy; I can’t wait! I voluntarily leave this review; all opinions are my own.… (more)