An Arranged Marriage (Company of Rogues, #1)

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In the tradition of Amanda Quick, New York Times bestselling author Jo Beverley has won the hearts of readers everywhere with her historical romances set in the Georgian and Regency periods An Arranged Marriage is the first of Beverley s beloved tales that began her popular Company of Rogues series Eleanor Chivenham didn t put much past her vile brother, but even she had not anticipated his greedy scheme to dupe a rich earl into mistaking her for a lightskirt With her reputation in shreds and her future ruined, a defeated Eleanor was forced to agree to a hasty wedding But marriage to the mysterious Nicholas Delaney was than she d bargained for He doubtless thought the worst of her, but when society gossip soon told her all about his beautiful French mistress, Eleanor tried to act with the cool dignity required in a marriage of convenience But how long could she hold out against his undeniable charm or the secret desires of her heart For the sake of family honor, Nicolas Delaney agreed to wed a wronged lady In truth, such chivalry ran counter to his carefully wrought image of a carousing, dissolute rogue the guise so vital to his secret political mission He hoped to keep his new wife in the background until a spy was trapped, but Eleanor s beauty and fighting wit were impossible to ignore In fact, she presented quite a challenge to his prowess with women and a test of his formidable will Download An Arranged Marriage (Company of Rogues, #1) – kino-fada.fr OK This was me at various points in the book when I wasn tHere s the basic story maybe you ll see what I mean.Eleanor Chivenham is in a bad situation that just keeps getting worse Before their parents died, her brother Lionel persuaded them to make him her guardian She can t claim her inheritance unless she either marries with his consent or turns 25 without shaming herself She s stuck in his house, with twoyears on her sentence, since she s not meeting anyone worth marrying among Lion OK This was me at various points in the book when I wasn tHere s the basic story maybe you ll see what I mean.Eleanor Chivenham is in a bad situation that just keeps getting worse Before their parents died, her brother Lionel persuaded them to make him her guardian She can t claim her inheritance unless she either marries with his consent or turns 25 without shaming herself She s stuck in his house, with twoyears on her sentence, since she s not meeting anyone worth marrying among Lione...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Although Forbidden is still my favorite because I loved Frances and Serena as a couple so much plus Francis is a virgin hero , this is an incredibly effective book There are so many reasons why this story could have gone the wrong way for me First and foremost, the hero commits the unthinkable for me in a romance, adultery However, he has reasons that I could not argue with He has been asked to cozy up to his former mistress who is actually a morally bankrupt spy, and in order to do that, p Although Forbidden is still my favorite because I loved Frances and Serena as a couple so much plus Francis is a virgin hero , this is an incredibly effective book There are so many reasons why this story could have gone the wrong way for me First and foremost, the hero commits the unthinkable for me in a romance, adultery However, he has reasons that I could ...So I m home sick with a terrible cold and thought to myself, self, you need to read something pleasant Perhaps a re read of a book you love Nope, did that yesterday with Goddess of the Hunt Aaah, LOVE that book Maybe I ll try one I bought last week at the used book store Like this one, An Arranged Marriage Sounds promising.My first inclination that this book wa...From K Ami I spent all night working and torturing myself listening to Jo Beverley s An Arranged Marriage I think I stuck with it so long because my 50% audiobooks were turning out to be a lesson in you get what you pay for, and I didn t want ALL of them to be one huge waste of money This book was just flat out awful If I sat down and wrote out a list of plot devices that I would despise in a romance novelthis book would contain them all.1 Top of the list Cheating However, From K Ami I spent all night working and torturing myself listening to Jo Beverley s An Arranged Marriage I think I stuck with it so long because my 50% audiobooks were turning out to be a lesson in you get what you pay for, and I didn t want ALL of them to...I cannot say how glad I am that this wasn t my first experience with Jo Beverley What a dismal story The interesting thing is that her general craft and characterization are okay, but the plot is a great big pile of suck that distorts every other element into the suck pit of amazing suckitude.I mean, if you re going to have a hero that you claim is smart and a natural leader and all, then having a story where he s run ragged by a floozy for months on end, interfering with his relationship with I cannot ...One of the heaviest and most brutal books I have ever read Heroine gets raped by hero s gay brother, to prove that he s a hetero, and forced to marry hero in case of consequences And soon after their marriage, there is another scene where the hero practically rapes the heroine, because if she does get pregnant, the child could be her husband s, so they could rest easy knowing that Ugh I don t know how I read the story after that, but I did It was several years ago.This put put me off Beve One of the heaviest and most brutal books I have ever read Heroine gets raped by hero s gay brother, to prove that he s a heter...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I listened to this story as a free audiobook download from my library I thought the premise of the book was completely ludicrous, even by regency smut standards At the beginning, the heroine is living with her brother who is a Grade A Pervert of the highest class He throws wild, drinking parties where men and women canoodle under the influence of alcohol and touch each other in bad places Eleanor doesn t approve of the goings on and knows the only reason she is still clinging to her virginit I listened to this story as a free audiobook download from my library I thought the premise of the book was completely ludicrous, even by regency smut standards At the beginning, the heroine is living with her brother who is a Grade A Pervert of the highest class He throws wild, drinking parties where men and women canoodle under the influence of alcohol and touch each other in bad places Eleanor doesn t approve of the goings on and knows the only reason she is still clinging to her virginity is because she religiously locks her door every night But one night, the pervy brother orchestrates the administration of drugs to both Eleanor and the Earl of Stainbridge so she can t lock her door and neither of them are in complete control of their faculties The purpose for this being that after being raped by the earl, Eleanor would be r...Horrible story It starts off with the heroine being raped by the hero s brother, who was drugged by the heroine s vile and useless brother, after which the hero agrees to marry her for honour or something, although it s advertised to others as an elopement The hero then spends most of the book in an affair with a French whore because he s some sort of a spy ...0.5This is one of those times I should have read all the damn spoilers I could have spared myself One can never know I won t tell everything that happens here but I won t bother marking anything as spoiler either Be warned I wish I had been.I am too lazy to list all the things that are horrible in this book and I don t think it deservesthan a reminder of why I hated it I ll just mention some of the worst.The hero cheats on his wife almost the whole book I m sorry, but it stops being 0.5This is one of those times I should have read all the damn spoilers I could have spared myself One can never know I won t tell everything that happens here but I won t bother marking anything as spoiler either Be warned I wish I had been.I am too lazy to list all the things that are horrible in this book and I don t think it deserve...This book didn t work for me on pretty much any level The hero is so unlikable he s cheating on his pregnant wife for most of the book But it s all for some supposed espionage plot that he s trying to uncover, so that makes it all okay He is quite conceited, treats Eleanor badly and hopes she ll get over it someday He doesn t even really make an effort to get to know her, but gives her a few presents and hopes that makes it all better Eleanor, the heroine, is so flat as a character it was This book didn t work for me on pretty much any level ...

An Arranged Marriage (Company of Rogues, #1)
  • English
  • 03 May 2017
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 351 pages
  • 0821764012
  • Jo Beverley
  • An Arranged Marriage (Company of Rogues, #1)