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A review by pammie823
Lord of Wicked Intentions by Lorraine Heath
emotional
mysterious
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
4.5
This is my favorite of the Lost Lords of Pembrook series. It has many of the hallmarks of a Lorraine Heath novel while giving us some fresh elements that made it original.
Lord Rafe Easton is by far the most mysterious of the three lords of Pembrook. He was left at the workhouse at 10 years old by a brother who was too young and too naive to have to have made that decision. We see Rafe in the previous two books, but he exists in the shadows; always keeping himself apart from his brothers and their lives. We know something terrible happened to him, but we don't know what.
Evelyn Chambers is the illegitimate daughter of an Earl, who loved and cared for his daughter, but kept her completely sheltered from society and made no provision for her future. When he dies, she is left at the mercy of her awful half brother who tries to sell her to a lord to pay off his immense gambling debts. Rafe is drawn to Evelyn and claims her for his own. The trouble is Evelyn doesn't know she is being sold off as a mistress until after it has already happened.
I loved many things about this book. Rafe is a classic Lorraine Heath hero (one foot in society, one in the gutter), the supporting cast was lovely and we got to see characters from her other books and series. But my favorite thing was how Lorraine juxtaposed Rafe's childhood abandonment and exposure to the worst of the world with Evelyn's cloistered existence that was more like a prison than a home.
Lord Rafe Easton is by far the most mysterious of the three lords of Pembrook. He was left at the workhouse at 10 years old by a brother who was too young and too naive to have to have made that decision. We see Rafe in the previous two books, but he exists in the shadows; always keeping himself apart from his brothers and their lives. We know something terrible happened to him, but we don't know what.
Evelyn Chambers is the illegitimate daughter of an Earl, who loved and cared for his daughter, but kept her completely sheltered from society and made no provision for her future. When he dies, she is left at the mercy of her awful half brother who tries to sell her to a lord to pay off his immense gambling debts. Rafe is drawn to Evelyn and claims her for his own. The trouble is Evelyn doesn't know she is being sold off as a mistress until after it has already happened.
I loved many things about this book. Rafe is a classic Lorraine Heath hero (one foot in society, one in the gutter), the supporting cast was lovely and we got to see characters from her other books and series. But my favorite thing was how Lorraine juxtaposed Rafe's childhood abandonment and exposure to the worst of the world with Evelyn's cloistered existence that was more like a prison than a home.