A review by rhodesee
A Rogue of One's Own, by Evie Dunmore

3.0

Well, I was all over the place with this book. I loved, loved, loved Bringing Down the Duke so I was so excited to read this. That may have led me to judge it unfairly but I really liked the beginning and then somewhere along the way it took a turn where I just started to hate the male lead so much that I honestly did not think he would be able to be redeemed by the end of the book. He was just infuriating with no redeeming qualities whatsoever for soooo much of this book! Usually when you have the point of view of both characters it allows the reader to overlook the shortcomings that each character sees in the other because for the most part they come down to misunderstandings and when we are inside the head of the other we can see that it is in fact, a misunderstanding and not a true character flaw. That was not the case with Tristan! His pov did not redeem him because being a war hero who loved his mother was not enough to overcome the way he treated Lucie and that is really all we had to go on to get us to like him. I'll admit that the author did give us more in the end, but it was literally in the end! It is just very difficult to get the bad taste out of my mouth that I had through so much of this book with a few throw away lines in the last 10% of the book. If this had been the first of the series I don't think I would've read the second.