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    The Virgin and the Rogue: The Rogue Files
    The Virgin and the Rogue: The Rogue Files
    The Virgin and the Rogue: The Rogue Files
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    The Virgin and the Rogue: The Rogue Files

    Written by Sophie Jordan

    Narrated by Carolyn Morris

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    About this audiobook

    Continuing her bestselling Rogue Files series, Sophie Jordan brews up a scintillating romance about a timid wallflower who discovers a love potion and ends up falling for a dashing rogue.

    A love potion…

    Charlotte Langley has always been the prudent middle sister, so her family is not surprised when she makes the safe choice and agrees to wed her childhood sweetheart. But when she finds herself under the weather and drinks a “healing” tonic, the potion provokes the most maddening desire…for someone other than her betrothed.

    With the power…

    Kingston’s rakehell ways are going to destroy him and he’s vowed to change. His stepbrother’s remote estate is just the place for a reformed rogue to hide. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by society, but when he gets stuck alone with a wallflower who is already betrothed... and she astonishes him with a fiery kiss, he forgets all about hiding.

    To alter two destinies.

    Although Charlotte appears meek, Kingston soon discovers there’s a vixen inside, yearning to break free. Unable to forget their illicit moment of passion, Kingston vows to relive the encounter, but Charlotte has sworn it will never happen again—no matter how earth-shattering it was. But will a devilish rogue tempt her to risk everything for a chance at true love?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 28, 2020
    ISBN9780062998750
    The Virgin and the Rogue: The Rogue Files
    Author

    Sophie Jordan

    Sophie Jordan grew up in the Texas hill country, where she wove fantasies of dragons, warriors, and princesses. A former high school English teacher, she’s the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of more than fifty novels. She now lives in Houston with her family. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and streaming anything that has a happily ever after.

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    • 3/5
      Ok it was a bit too predictable for my taste
    • 4/5
      Great story. Narrators voice was good but not so much on the Duke and Kingstons voices.
    • 4/5
      This was a nice book to read. Loved Charlotte and her courage to love a rogue. Samuel was also fun. Nora was my favorite though. I admired her use of the placebo effect on Charlotte. That made me laugh. Great book
    • 2/5
      I've loved books 1-4 in this series. But I don't seem to get along with the Langley sisters. There's nothing inherently wrong with them, I just don't vibe with their stories.
      This time around the premise was sort of original. With the heroine drinking a love tonic by mistake. However, I didn't enjoy how this dragged on throughout the book. And how she used it as an excuse to not take responsibility for her own life.
      Plus, I never felt a real love connection between the two MCs. We only got passion, sex, and fluff. So by the time we got to the "romance" and the end, I wasn't buying it.
      If anyone wants to read this series, I'd say they read 1-4. In my opinion, they are the best.
    • 2/5
      1.5 starsThe first 40% of this wasn't for me. The heroine gets awful cramps and her sister makes concoctions to help with the cramps, except this time her tweaking of it creates an aphrodisiac which causes the heroine to get horny af. She's the quiet sister and has been engaged to a childhood neighbor, who I thought she was kind of friends with but later in the story they don't seem to have that relationship at all. At the same time this aphrodisiac hits her, our hero shows up to stay at his step-brother's house, even though they don't really have a relationship but he's a lost soul right now. At night they meet up in the hallway and the heroine jumps the hero's bones and grinds on him to completion. The first 40% is pretty much the heroine in heat and the hero benefiting?/enduring? it. There was about 10% in the middle that I enjoyed, because our heroine and hero actually talk and show some development of feelings. I love how historical romance can show the heat and emotions in the subtleties and I'm a sucker for innocuous scenes like this:She moistened her lips and pressed, “What is your name?”He sent her a small smile. “You know my name.”“Kingston is a surname.”“It’s all anyone ever calls me.”She frowned. “I’d like to call you by your name. Your true name.”“You’d be the only one to use it.”The only one. At that, she hesitated. She knew she should let the matter drop. It would be far too intimate to be the only person using his Christian name. She didn’t want that intimacy to exist between them. Still, she heard herself saying, “I don’t mind that.”After several beats of silence, he answered. Over the chirping of birds and wind rustling in the branches, he said, “It’s Samuel. Sam.”When they call each other by their first names, gah, I love it because of the closeness/intimacy it shows. Anyway, after that middle, the second half has the heroine still dealing with her childhood betrothal, she begins to question it around 65% and then breaks it off 75%, which is too late in the story for me; it doesn't leave enough time to give me what I want from my mains. The heroine and hero don't spend enough time together in the second half to develop the emotion I wanted between them and then when the hero comes back after leaving and puts his heart out there to ask her to marry him, she brushes him off until an extremely hurried scene of the hero, kind of stupidly, risks his life and “Oh! I just realized I love him!”. MEH. I feel like this tried to meld erotic and historical romance but the beginning was goofy, am I supposed to be laughing at her being in heat? instead of hot, steamy, she's horny and then absurdly their penetrative sex scene was almost blink and you miss it. If I want erotic, I read erotic, this wasn't hot enough to me for that, when I want historical romance, I read historical romance but this didn't have near enough the character development for me to enjoy it in that aspect (Jess Michaels does a better job of melding hot historical). So, yeah, this was a fail for me but I see a lot enjoyed it and thought it was steamy hot, so ymmv!
    • 3/5
      Middle of the road romance. Cute, but no true yearning. I did love Charlotte choosing herself over his proposal the first time. I could never lol.
    • 2/5
      I enjoy some of Ms. Jordan's books very much and others are not for me. This one falls on the side of not for me. Charlotte Langley is the dull daughter, engaged to a childhood friend with overbearing parents. When she takes a potion for her cramps, it affects her like an aphrodisiac, just in time for the arrival of the roguish Kingston who takes some advantage of her fever.The plot was unrealistic, as far as I was concerned. For someone who supposedly has such hidden passions to put up with her future mother-in-law seemed silly. Kingston was a little better but I found most of the characters forgettable and inane. There's a lot of sex which can be fine but not when it takes the place of plot.
    • 4/5
      This was a very fun and interesting read. First you have a wallflower heroine who has agreed to marry her childhood friend, future in law who is unbearable, a hero who is a rake but tired of his life, sisters who only want our heroine to be happy, a brother in law who is determined to keep his family safe and happy.... All in a country estate. It's a very engaging read. I was drawn in from the first sentence and eager to see how it would end. I honestly couldn't decide how the author would handle the ending. I laughed, I sighed, and I kept turning pages or swiping as I read this on my eReader. Fans of well written characters and fun historical romances will enjoy The Virgin and the Rogue. This is part of a series but can be read as a stand alone. I have not read any other books in the series and did not feel lost. A great read.
    • 4/5
      Well! This is an unusual Regency romance!A young engaged woman, Charlotte Langley, takes a concoction to treat the onset of her menses, made up by her herbalist / pharmacutical inclined sister, Nora. After feeling strangely like her skins on fire, she then 'jumps the bones' of her brother-in-law's visiting illegitimate step brother, the rakish, handsome Kingston.My head was reeling and this was just the opening salvo! After deciding she had obviously been under the influence of an aphrodisiac mixture, Charlotte does it again...and again. Like a cat on heat really when she's around the gorgeous Kingston. And this is the quiet, boring, middle sister.It was so ludicrous, verging on the comic, that I found I had to keep reading even as I mentally winced...continually!All this whilst Charlotte is betrothed to a childhood friend, Billy, whose mother is a social climbing tyrant.I'm in two minds about this novel. It's either a five star brilliant parody playing with the rake and innocent young miss genre, or it's a one star trite historical romance relieved by heaps of panting sexuality.I've decided to settle for somewhere in between. The plot calls for suspension of belief of any preconceived notions of how a Regency miss should or would behave. I felt like I'd wandered into an Alice in Wonderland plot, where the innocent Alice (Charlotte) goes down a rabbit hole and comes out at the Fanny Hill end. I kept reading to see what was going to happen! Charlotte overcome by the force of attraction for Kingston keeps succumbing to her feelings, even when the excuse of having unknowingly drunk an elixir that stimulates her hormones runs out.The story is littered with surprisingly insightful cameos, even as the storyline made my head spin. Like Charlotte catching a glimpse of Billy's grandmother peering out from a window, seemingly trapped within the walls of the house, looking out at the world, and never being able to partake. In that moment Charlotte makes the connection of how her future with Billy and his pernickety, bossy mother would be. Hauntingly realistic.I was annoyed when Charlotte kept failing to find her voice. The moments never seemed right for her to exert herself. Someone else's need is always paramount. When Charlotte did find her voice it came as a complete shock to all. Now that was a wonderful show stopper!Kingston the misunderstood rogue is at heart a man who we just know can grow into a better person when given the chance, and of course I kept hoping that Charlotte will be that catalyst.So for this regency reader, this is a winner if somewhat astonishing.I'm now contemplating what the series has in store for Nora, our pharmacy whizz. When she comes into her own I except her story to be equally as strange and complicated.A HarperCollins ARC via NetGalley
    • 3/5
      ** Maybe 3.5 Stars **My thoughts about this book were all over the place – from total disbelief to wondering what was going to happen next. I have read three of the six books in this series and each of the books can easily be read as a standalone. While the female lead in this story is the sister of the female lead in the previous story – the male lead is also related to the previous male lead – you don’t need to have read that story to enjoy this one.Charlotte Langley is the middle sister, the dull one, the uninteresting one, the one who just wants an uneventful, unexciting life. She wants to marry the man she has been friends with since they were children – he is steady, honorable, and … dull. She has convinced herself she is in love with him, but she’s never even kissed him, nor has she had any desire to do so. It never even occurred to her until – THE EVENT.Samuel Kingston is the natural son of The Earl of Norfolk and a famed courtesan. His life has been a hedonistic one – much like his father’s – until he learns his mother is ill and he visits her. What he sees and learns of her illness turns his stomach and he immediately loses interest in his former lifestyle. He’s searching for something, but he doesn’t know exactly what it is. He’s been wandering from place to place for a while now and he finally decides to visit his step-brother. Now, his step-brother has no use for him – nor he for his step-brother – but he’ll stay there for a few days until he decides where to go from there. Except – when he arrives – he finds there is a new wife and her sisters who live there with Nicholas. Kingston is totally unimpressed with the lot of them – especially the middle one who seems like a milksop – and decides to leave the following day.Nora, Charlotte’s younger sister, is an herbalist (she identifies herself as a scientist), and she mixes up a tonic to alleviate Charlotte’s menstrual cramps. However, she adds in a few new ingredients to see if they will be more effective. Well, it was certainly effective – as an aphrodisiac. Charlotte thought she was dying and headed out of her room in the middle of the night to go to Nora’s room for help. Except she encountered Kingston in the hallway and attacked him – seeking her pleasure on him. Luckily, he was gentleman enough to let her achieve her pleasure without him doing more.I liked both Charlotte and Kingston, but I would have liked to get to know them a bit better. I failed to see how they could come to a deep and abiding love for each other when they spent almost no time in each other’s company and the time they did spend was of a more carnal nature.I had to wonder how the Langley family home came to be in the possession and control of Marian who was then giving it to Charlotte. Yes, it meant the most to Charlotte, but – there was a brother. Given the times, why was the family home not under the control of the brother? Yes, he was younger, but still as the only male, and females unable to own property, I have to wonder how that came to be.There are a few anachronisms in the ARC, but I will assume they will be corrected prior to publication. While the story itself felt a bit more modern in its concept, it had very little modern terminology or ways of speaking, etc.Overall, I enjoyed the read and the characters. I would have liked to see at least one scene between Nicholas and Kingston where they come to realize that neither is actually who the other thought he was and maybe form a friendship of sorts. That could have just been mentioned in the epilogue and it would have made for a happier ending because Kingston really needed a friend.I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.