[Livro] Lord of Pleasure, de Erica Ridley

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Série: Rogues to Riches #2
Autor(a): Erica Ridley
Editora: Webmotion
Páginas: 350
Data de Publicação: 2 de Maio de 2017

Sinopse:

In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses… Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
Nondescript “good girl” Miss Camellia Grenville only ever opens her mouth when forced to sing at her family’s musicales. That is, until the night she infiltrates the ton’s most scandalous masquerade ball on behalf of her sister, and finds herself in the arms—and the bed—of the one man she’d sworn to hate.
Irresistibly arrogant and unapologetically sensuous, infamous rake Lord Wainwright always gets his way. When he accepts a wager to turn his rakish image respectable in just forty days, he never anticipates falling for an anonymous masked lover...or that discovering her identity would destroy them both.

~ Recebemos este livro directamente da autora Erica Ridley, em troca desta opinião honesta. Obrigada! ~

Opinião:
Lord of Pleasure foi muito melhor que Lord of Chance.

Desde logo senti uma empatia muito maior com as personagens, tanto com Camellia como com Michael.

Camellia é uma irmã protectora e amiga que sente que tem de compensar o comportamento das irmãs, sendo por isso “ a boazinha”. Já Michael é visto como um playboy que basta entrar numa sala para as senhoras desmaiarem – o que ele não gosta particularmente. A maneira como as pessoas o vêem faz com que as suas palavras sejam distorcidas e isso é o que ele mais odeia.

Cada um deles sentia-se preso a um papel e é interessante ver como máscaras físicas permitem que as máscaras emocionais que usam no dia-a-dia possam cair. Gostei da evolução da relação deles, apesar de achar que, se calhar, não iria durar pois eles conhecem-se só como aquelas pessoas que estão atrás das máscaras, praticamente e, na realidade, eles são como que uma união do que mostram ao mundo e do que mostram um ao outro.

Apesar disso, foi uma leitura super rápida e de que gostei bastante, sempre curiosa para saber mais sobre as personagens. Achei que o “entrave/problema” não existia na realidade e poderia ter sido usado algo melhor, mas para o enredo que se desenrolou, algo simples chegou.

Foi um livro que foi difícil de pousar e que me deu bastante prazer a ler mas que, ao escrever esta opinião, percebi que tinha pequenos problemas, daí a pontuação não ser tão alto como as 4 bolachas inicialmente pensadas.

Title: Lord of Pleasure
Serie: Rogues to Riches #2
Author: Erica Ridley
Publisher: WebMotion
Pages: 350
Publication date: May 2nd 2017

Synopsis:

In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses… Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
Nondescript “good girl” Miss Camellia Grenville only ever opens her mouth when forced to sing at her family’s musicales. That is, until the night she infiltrates the ton’s most scandalous masquerade ball on behalf of her sister, and finds herself in the arms—and the bed—of the one man she’d sworn to hate.
Irresistibly arrogant and unapologetically sensuous, infamous rake Lord Wainwright always gets his way. When he accepts a wager to turn his rakish image respectable in just forty days, he never anticipates falling for an anonymous masked lover...or that discovering her identity would destroy them both.

~ We’ve received this eARC in exchange for an honest review directly from the author, Erica Ridley. Thank you! ~

Review:
Lord of Pleasure was much better than Lord of Chance.

From the start, I felt a much bigger empathy with the characters, both Camellia and Michael.

Camellia is a friendly and protective sister and she feels like she has to compensate her family for her sisters’ behaviour – making her the “good girl”. Michael on the other hand, is seen as a rake/rogue/playboy, someone that walks into a room and makes all the ladies swoon – which he doesn’t particularly appreciates. Why? Because how people see him makes them change and twist his words, and he hates that.

Each of them felt stuck to a roll and it’s interesting to see how real masks allow for emotional and fake personality masks to fall and disappear. I liked the evolution of their relationship but, to be honest, I don’t know if it would last long, because they only know each other like the person behind the masks and, in truth, they are a bit of both – the ones behind the mask and that they show each other, and the ones they show the world.

Still, it was a fun and fast paced read that I quite enjoyed. I was always eager to know more about the characters. In truth, I think the “problem” didn’t really exist and something better could have been used to twist the story a bit but, for the kind of plot, this simple ruse and scheme worked fine.

It was a book that was hard to put down and gave me quite a lot pleasure to read, but, as I started to write this review, I concentrated a bit more on the problems that I was seeing, and that’s why the rating isn’t as high as I thought it would be (4*).

• Lord of Chance (Rogues to Riches #1) (Joana)