![]() ![]() It also doesn’t start with the somewhat cryptic and overly dramatic prologue that began Wicked and the Wallflower and seemed like it’d be plugged into the beginning of every book in this series, so that’s already a good start. It has been some time since I read book one ( Wicked and the Wallflower) of this new series, the Bareknuckle Bastards (which, come on–it’s hard to take seriously…and then it’s impossible not to), but I would say that Brazen and the Beast is stronger. It’s the perfect combination of everything I like in a historical romance and just enough over-the-top everything else to be riveting and, as I had previously stated, delightful. Characters from other books are mentioned or crop up throughout the story.Something threatens the heroine that seems to require brute strength but actually requires unlocking an emotional vault. ![]() An alpha-ish hero with 1000% too much testosterone and a serious case of emotional constipation.A heroine who thinks there’s something wrong with herself that makes her unloveable.What might one pretty much always find in a MacLean novel? ![]() It’s dramatic and emotional and lively and a little bit outrageous. It has all the hallmarks of a MacLean novel, which is to say, it’s delightful. I so hope I can adequately describe this book. ![]() A+Ĭharacter Chemistry: The bickering-because-I’m-into-you is great Heat Factor: I love the way MacLean writes sex. ![]()
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