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Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian

7 reviews

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

_isabel_'s review

challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted sad slow-paced

4.5

THESE TWO. I'm crying.

"Two Rogues Make a Right" was an absolutely wonderful gem of a book, and Martin and Will are literally the most precious idiots to have ever lived: they miscommunicate more than any other romance heros I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, but they're damned precious together, so I forgive them.

Their story was sweet and lovely and angsty and soft, just as I expected. 
And Cat Sebastian writing was, just as I expected, absolutely lovely, vivid and beautiful, and in general, utterly gut-wrenching. I think I have probably underlined half of the book: oops? 

Although, I certainly wasn't expecting to love Martin so damn much. I loved Will too, of course: who doesn't love absolute sweethearts, with an endless supply of patience, kindness and affection to dole out?
But Martin! God. Prickly, snarky disasters, with a secretly vulnerable and unsure side, AND a secretly soft and sweet one too, are my favourite kind of MCs. And I loved Martin with my whole soul. Plus, as a fellow chronic illness sufferer, his character really resonated with me: we need more protagonists like him.

Both Will and Martin deserved all the happiness in the world. Idiot bff to lovers, with a side of soul-wrecking pining and a hefty dose of hurt/comfort on top; I loved them to bits.

This series is packed with a rich cast of side characters that are all equally unforgettable: from the Sedgwick brothers and their significant others, to the snarky, lovely women and men in their life: I loved every single one of them, and Daisy especially stole the show here.

Anyway, I've read most of Cat Sebastian's older books now, but I'm missing a bit of her latest stuff, so I'm excited about reading those, and whatever else she has come up with to destroy her readers' hearts. I can't wait! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture and Blood

purplepenning's review

emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

3.75

Quite fond of these two idiots — their relationship was really lovely, lots of mutual caregiving — but the pace is pretty leisurely and it did drag a bit for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

breadbees's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Abandonment

emily_mh's review against another edition

funny lighthearted 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

4.25

This was THOROUGHLY enjoyable. The sheer TENSION between Will and Martin was unbelievable. I loved the conversations they shared, especially their pet names for one another. And Sebastian just knows how to write angst like no other. It makes the HEA all the more sweet. Also, the chronic illness rep in this book was so good, it was so nuanced and relatable. My one critique is that Sebastian didn’t write the reactions of the characters to their situations all too well in the first half. Where was the realisation for Will that he was in love with his best friend, and where was the shock and joy for Martin when they got together?

I think that their get together moment needed to be much more sudden and all-at-once, rather than easing into it as it what happened.

The friends-to-lovers trope could have been played up so much more if these reactions were recorded. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

notagreatreader's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Yes! This was so good and tender! I love the slow-burn friends-to-lovers development, beautifully done over a period that's longer than two weeks. This story has barely any plot at all, which is how I like my romance tbh - just a nice domestic slice-of-life story and watching the relationship develop and characters unfold. I love how both characters are very concerned for each other's well-being. I appreciate the exploration of chronic illness and trauma as well as sexuality of both characters, but in particular what is quite obviously demisexuality of one of the characters. And I especially loved all the tenderness. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Blood, and Medical trauma