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The Last Days of a Rake (Love and Scandal #2)
by
Donna Lea Simpson (Goodreads Author)
"In "Love & Scandal, " Collette Jardiniere is outraged when notorious roue Charles Jameson appears to take credit for "The Last Days of a Rake, " a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Colin Jenkins to satisfy Victorian convention."
Can a rake be true to himself, yet remain free from sin?
Edgar Lankin has lived the life of rake, a man who cares for nothing but the pleasur...more
Can a rake be true to himself, yet remain free from sin?
Edgar Lankin has lived the life of rake, a man who cares for nothing but the pleasur...more
ebook, EPUB eBook DRM free, 63 pages
Published
June 2010
by Carina Press
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This was a free book over at Carina Press. Apparently, it's a book that's mentioned in a book —a plot device in a romance, a book that a character has written but made real by the author of the romance so it can be sold as an actual book alongside the book in which the title is mentioned. I think?
In any case, it is most definitely not in the same genre. This is NOT a romance. This is a most depressing memoir, more like a deathbed confession, and for me rather reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's Dorian...more
In any case, it is most definitely not in the same genre. This is NOT a romance. This is a most depressing memoir, more like a deathbed confession, and for me rather reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's Dorian...more
We find Edgar Lankin on his deathbed. A man in his 40's who has lived a life caring really about no one but himself. He has always lived a life of self indulgence and self deception always finding a way to blame others for the things he did whenever he had an ounce of regret for the people he had hurt.
Sitting with him at his bedside is his one lifelong friend John Hamilton who took a totally different path than Edgar choosing to study and follow God.
Edgar decides to confess to his friend John s...more
Sitting with him at his bedside is his one lifelong friend John Hamilton who took a totally different path than Edgar choosing to study and follow God.
Edgar decides to confess to his friend John s...more
This short book is an “autobiography” of an English peer who establishes himself as a rake in his early 20s after deliberately betting and setting out to “ruin” a young woman. It is written as he is dying to summarize how this choice he made ruined its life. The book is a companion to another romance novel by the same author.
Without having read the companion, there’s not a lot to recommend this book. If you lead a life of debauchery, it might lead to an early death and self-loathing. Got it.
Without having read the companion, there’s not a lot to recommend this book. If you lead a life of debauchery, it might lead to an early death and self-loathing. Got it.
I wouldn't call this a romance, but pretty darn sad how someone can waste their lives and wake up one day to see the wrong they do in their lives and wish to change.
The big question that the reader have to ask themselves can someone truly redeem the wrongs they do to others?
Free ebook @ Carina Press
The big question that the reader have to ask themselves can someone truly redeem the wrongs they do to others?
Free ebook @ Carina Press
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Not quite the romance novel really, because it deals with the regrets of a reformed rake on his deathbed and how he was a rather scummy scoundrel. A little like Peter O'Toole's Casanova in the Casanova miniseries, starring David Tennant.
The book itself was quite well written - almost lyrical in places, though short. In the end, I came away feeling quite sad for all the characters. I do like the idea of the book within the book, however. Rather like The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey....more
The book itself was quite well written - almost lyrical in places, though short. In the end, I came away feeling quite sad for all the characters. I do like the idea of the book within the book, however. Rather like The Mysteries of Udolpho in Northanger Abbey....more
Edgar certainly got what was coming to him, a slow painful death from all the emotional trauma his ruthless ways brought upon the young ladies he demoralized and the young men who he convinced to gamble away their fortunes and then some. For anyone interested in witnessing the slow painful death a rake deserves, this is the book for you.
fairly well written, but I personally didn't see the point of the story. The main character had already changed at the beginning of the story and seemed to be simply confessing before his death. Self-indulgent in a way.
wonderfully written....to really appreciate, you must go on and read "Love and Scandal" (also by Donna Lea Simpson), about the fictional author of this fictional book. fantastic!
This was my first e-book ever. The tittle doesn't not make a book!
Turned out this was a spiritual read...lol, not what I usualy read.
Verry glad it was free.
Turned out this was a spiritual read...lol, not what I usualy read.
Verry glad it was free.
Good thing it was only 63 pages. It was a sad commentary on a man's life and how he let one mistake lead him to a lifetime of mistakes.
Not really a romance novel in my opinion. But nevertheless, a well written, good book. It was a short,
easy read. I really enjoyed it.
easy read. I really enjoyed it.
While the book was definitely not what I was expecting, I actually wasn't disappointed.
Not my style, it was kind of pointless.
While the story was intriguing in places, it wasn't enough to keep me slogging through the huge chunks of overwritten, slow-paced text. The main character was never likable, and even though he was dying, I couldn't have sympathy for him. Did not finish.
Boring.
A real anti climax. Nothing happens in this. It's all reminiscence. It's written interestingly enough to keep me reading, but disappointed at lack of direction. Not sure whether to bother trying her other books or not.
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Donna Lea Simpson is a nationally bestselling romance and mystery novelist with over twenty titles published in the last ten years. An early love for the novels of Jane Austen and Agatha Christie was a portent of things to come; Donna believes that a dash of mystery adds piquancy to a romantic tale, and a hint of romance adds humanity to a mystery story. Besides writing romance and mystery novels...more
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Sep 12, 2010 02:53pm