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Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian

22 reviews

mnatale100's review

emotional hopeful relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Medical content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

wanderlust_romance's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Gosh I love Cat Sebastian. Two Rogues Make a Right was just the soft, tender, slightly angsty, queer historical romance I needed. This is the third book in the Seducing the Sedgwicks series, and for the most part it can standalone. I found myself a little confused in the beginning but the story focus quickly shifted to  the relationship between Martin and Will. This book looks at queer visibility and safety networks, chronic illness, disability caretaking, and class difference. And as per Cat Sebastian's norm, looks at these themes without centering the story around LGBTQIA+ trauma.

Two Rogues had much the same tenderness and friendship as We Could Be So Good. The audiobook also had the same narrator for both books, and I liked this book's narrator performance only slightly more. There was very little distinction between MMC character voices, which occasionally made it difficult to determine who was speaking. That's my only hang up.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Drug abuse, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

emmahe's review

emotional funny hopeful

4.5

My favourite of the trilogy, it wrapped up nicely and everything turned out for everyone which is wildly unrealistic but I ate up. Honourable mention to Daisy for being a huge bitch who I love 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Pedophilia, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

buttermellow's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse

writewithapendragon's review

emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I think I expected it to be more erotic than romantic, but it was a lovely romance novel for a relaxing weekend with low stakes and sweet characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Outing, and Classism

A lot of the content warnings are genre-typical and/or occur off the page. Sexual content gets explicit but never lasts more than a couple pages.

unsuccessfulbookclub's review

emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Mental illness, and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug abuse and Torture

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Classism

wilybooklover's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

5.0

This is so soft and tender and sweet. I loved it so much. The affection and intimacy that Will and Martin had was just lovely. I’m a sucker for idiots in love and hurt/comfort and this book had both of those in spades. There is no semblance of a plot, which is not a criticism — I loved the complete focus on these two idiots in their cottage, but for those who love more plot-driven books: this is not for you. 

I did find the Americanisms in this one a bit grating. I’ve resigned myself to the odd ‘gotten’ and missing prepositions in historicals written by Americans (and Cat Sebastian is by far one of the better authors for not having Americanisms in her work), but this even had American wildflowers in it! It’s a testament to how much I loved this book that I’m still giving it five stars despite them. 

I’m so sad I have finished this series because it was cosy and gentle in all the best ways. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Torture, and Death of parent

onlyonebookshelf's review

emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Homophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship