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LITTLE BIT WICKED is followed by A LITTLE BIT SINFUL. This story continues
Clarissa Kinkaid’s story a few months after she recovered from her scandal from
the first book. In this story she is pursuing a man named George Wilbanks
simply because her dearly departed sister-in-law, Rebecca told her at some ball
that George Wilbanks “is the type of guys she should marry” shortly before her
death. Clarissa can’t trust her own judgment because the one guy she tried to
pursue on her own proved to be a jerk. Of course George isn’t much better, but
Rebecca recommended him. So, no matter how many times George proves he’s a
deuce who is only leading her on, she still pursues him. In the meantime a much nicer guy and family friend
named Justin Rodale is also pursuing her. The only problem is, Justin is a
bastard so of course he and a high society girl like Clarissa can’t be
together. However, they do hang out a lot so Justin can teach her to be a
wanton and interesting enough for George to want to marry her.
Eventually,
she tries to trap George into marrying her by compromising herself. George reacts about as well as can be expected
by running off when a society matron named Lady Wooten catches her and George
alone in an empty room. Thankfully, Justin sweeps in to marry her and saves the
day and then the resolution drags a little bit before they finally get their
happy ending.
Normally,
I’d dive in to the hero and heroine here and talk about what I thought about
them, but I need to talk about the plot first.
The plot of her pursuing a hopeless suitor was really, really annoying.
I liked Clarissa I did, but every important secondary character told
her over and over that George Wilbanks was not a good dude. Heck, Justin took
her to an incredibly shading gambling hall where she sees George flirting with
a prostitute. Instead of being like Oh, I guess everyone I know is right, he is
a jerk. Pursuit over, she concludes that the only reason George pays for sex is
that she’s not seductive enough. I mean good God woman! Not to mentions there’s an incredibly sweet
guy right in front of her who thinks she’s the most interesting woman he’s ever
met! Ahem, anyways I should probably move on to the characters before this mini
rant gets any longer.
Despite
my annoyance at Clarissa’s hopeless pursuit, I really did like protagonists in
this story better than the ones in the first book. I liked Clarissa a little
less than Justin, but she was still enjoyable to read about. Basically, she’s a
sweet, naïve woman who believes the best in every one around her besides
herself. She’s also a math whiz which I’m
sure is someone out there’s favorite trope. Her ingénue-like nature is
endearing when it’s not throw-my-tablet-against-the-wall annoying. I love how
her and Justin have a very equal relationship and it’s incredibly sweet that
Justin discounts any sort of doubt she has about herself.
Justin
Rodale is just sweet in general. Now, he is an alpha, but a gentlemanly one. He’s
always there to pick Clarissa back-up (and vice-versa honestly) when she’s feeling
down. He is a bastard so he has a serious inferiority complex, but damn it,
even though he can’t be with Clarissa he will protect her and defend her honor.
I didn’t think it was necessary for him
to be nobility all along towards the end.Something that I love about this books
is it’s charming theme to never judge a book by its cover. George may be noble,
but his a huge deuce and although Justin is a bastard he’s twice the gentleman
George is. Perhaps that theme is why I still loved this story even if the main
plot annoyed me half the time.
The
secondary characters are wonderful to read about as well. Vivian and Marcus are
hardly in it, but it’s still nice to see that their still doing well. My
favorite secondary character though is Clarissa’s friend Ella. She’s spunky and
hopeless romantic with dreams of finding her soulmate. I would love if she was
the protagonist of the next book, but unfortunately the summery of A LITTLE BI
SCANDALOUS proves otherwise. Hopefully, she at least gets to be a beta couple
and find love of her own.
Lastly,
there’s the antagonist George Wilbanks. He’s a jerkass and that’s about all
there is to his character, but I still cheered when both times Justin punched
him out (first, when he finds out he ran when Clarissa was compromised and then
when Mr. Deucebanks attempts to rape Clarissa towards the end). The rest of the characters are mostly window
dressing, but colorful enough for me to want to visit where this series takes
place.
All and
all I’d give this series a four out of five because Justin and Clarissa were
likable enough and sweet enough as a couple for me to enjoy their story and
want to pick it up again one day. However, Clarissa hopeless pursuit of George
made me want to throw my tablet across the room at times, not to mention the
ending dragged a little bit. I’d like to close with the final lines of the last
chapter before the epilogue:
She
looked up a him, his intense amber eyes, the handsome chiseled jaw. Her
husband.” Did you mean what you said?”
“About?”
“Do
you truly love me?”
“Yes.”
He pulled her to him, squeezing her tight. “I love you Chrissy. Or do you
prefer Clarissa?”
“No,
I’ve grown quite fond of Chrissy. But only with you.”
“Yes,
only with me. Forever only with me.”
Most of their lines together are equally as heartwarming. I
still fully recommend picking this series up from Amazon, especially when it only costs $5.99.
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