The last hellion ebook

Search Search Search Browse menu. Sign in. Learn Something New This Year! See all. The Last Hellion. Description Details Reviews A ferocious conflict of wills An incendiary passion Languages English. A ferocious conflict of wills Details Publisher: HarperCollins Awards:. Loretta Chase - Author. This has made me want to go back and reread Lord of Scoundrels, which I read years ago. After having read many HRs since then, it will be interesting to go back and see what I make of LoS now.

This book was intense and fast-paced, with an interesting back story for both characters. Lydia's background isn't really unravelled till the end, and I found her story quite touching. I also liked the way the sensitive side of Vere was revealed in bits and pieces.

Overall, a really good HR. I'm definitely going to read more of Ms Chase's backlist. View all 3 comments. What can I say? I just loved this. I loved the heroine, I loved the hero, I loved the dog. I really don't have anything bad to say. Loretta Chase has a talent beyond romance. She took a very unpleasant fact of life in the 18th century - one that is rarely addressed in romance novels - and created the base for a great pairing.

At its core this book deals with the fact that dealing with death was very much a part of everyone's daily lives during this time in history. In particular the death of chil What can I say? In particular the death of children. Of course children die today, but in wealthy countries it's almost as infrequent as to be blessedly rare. We have antibiotics and vaccinations now.

For many of us, death is something that mostly stays in it's place and visits the old. Honestly, it's hard to imagine how people made it through the things that were facts of life in those days. Both the hero and heroine had their own little ghosts as well as the loss of various older but not old enough to die loved ones to shoulder.

The heroine lost her young sister to tuberculosis and the hero his young ward to diphtheria. Both of them dealt with their losses in vastly different ways, but the courses of both of their lives were deeply affected.

Was this book depressing? It wasn't. That's what's great about this author. She sees both the tragedy and the comedy in life and, despite what has happened to the characters, manages to make you laugh as well as cry and the tone is overall very positive and fun.

I really don't know what to say. I have nothing snarky to add. The narrator was fabulous. Revisiting Dain and Jessica was fabulous. Jessica's goofy brother from the previous book even turns out to be a pleasant surprise with more depth than expected. I highly recommend this and plan on going back to the first 2 novels in the series. Obviously, these don't need to be read in order to be enjoyed or followed.

View all 4 comments. Please click here for my full review of the audiobook. Just finished reading this book for the third time, and I love it even more. Loretta Chase is just amazing! Upon rereading -- I've moved this from 4 to 5 stars. It isn't quite as good as Lord of Scoundrels , but it's right up there. The hero's tragedy and redemption are moving, and the heroine is a delightful atypical Regency miss. A lovely 4. Fabulous narration by Kate Reading and a terrific story, as only Loretta Chase can write when she is on fire.

This book finally deals with Vere, now the Duke of Ainswood, the best mate of that awful man Dane in Lord of Scoundrels who I never liked. I felt the same about this man Vere- don't get me started view spoiler [ on how they laugh about sharing a woman at the same time! No, really. S A lovely 4. She falls pregnant and they don't know whose child it is. Luckily, he looks totes like Dane, so that makes ascertaining paternity a little easier hide spoiler ] Somehow, Chase manages to turn Vere into a truly wonderful person.

But the heroine, Lydia, truly shines in this story. She is magnificent : independent, intelligent and fearless. She will not allow Vere to bully or belittle her and it is a joy to see what she puts him through to help him grow. At the same time, he, a man who apparently completely disrespects women- and Chase rather alarmingly repeats this fact, so that I was struggling to find anything likeable about him at all- falls hard for this Amazon and is forced to question all his assumptions.

He is also pushed to examine his own actions after some deaths in his family, and accept that they were cowardly, egotistical and self-indulgent. I am not really sure why he treated women so contemptuously. The sad things that befell his friends and family were not caused by women, nor did they have anything in particular to do with them. I get the wallowing in drink and gambling etc to forget.

I get that sex can be used to forget for a while. But if he was going to treat women like "whores", he was the biggest of them all. Mr One-Night-Stand, in fact. So half a star off because I don't feel Chase really explained the cause of this misogyny. And his sudden turn-around was a little hard to take. Lydia does not pull any punches. She demands he examine his heart and he becomes a truly wonderful man in the end, while at the same time giving Lydia the love and respect she had been denied by the unfortunate set of circumstances she encountered in her life.

This is what HR is all about, folks! But I do respect it. Lydia and Vere kept me on my toes. And they frequently had some odd reactions - that ended up making sense.

But threw me in the moment. Most of the book was a 3 star read. Vere was so funny and obtuse. I thought the book was cute. But slowly it developed into something a little More. Mar 20, Aou rated it really liked it Shelves: virgin-h , funny , oldies.

Loved the MCs, especially the besotted kind hearted hero. Apr 08, Jane Stewart rated it liked it Shelves: historical-romance.

Weak 3 stars. This barely kept my interest. I was hoping this might be similar. The two main characters sounded similar. Lydia in this book is competent, smart, and not afraid of Vere. They have multiple spats. But the magic is not here the way it was in LOS. The LOS dialogue was witty and creative.

But here the dialogue, events, and relationship felt too much like most other romance novels - nothing to Weak 3 stars. But here the dialogue, events, and relationship felt too much like most other romance novels - nothing to set it apart.

It was ok. Her main enemy is Coralie who forces young girls into prostitution. Lydia frequently wears a disguise for investigative reporting. Vere follows her and rescues her more than once. Once he beds them he no longer wants them. DATA: Story length: pages.

Swearing language: mild, including religious swear words. Sexual language: none to mild. Number of sex scenes: 3. Estimated number of sex scene pages: Setting: to England.

Genre: historical romance. Dates are copyright dates. Lord of Scoundrels. Lord Perfect. The Sandalwood Princess. The Last Hellion. Your Scandalous Ways. Oct 14, Deniz rated it really liked it Shelves: alpha-hero , virgin-heroine , historical-romance.

I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to read a fun regency It was funny and entertaining from front to back Well worth reading! Jan 03, Aly is so frigging bored rated it it was amazing Recommended to Aly is so frigging bored by: Catherine.

Shelves: historical , favorites , hh-duke. I had so much fun reading this book. Thank you Catherin for tempting me with it. Here are some quotes that I loved: He gave her a wounded look. I was consumed by curiosity. What have you done with your breasts? She looked down at herself, then up at him.

Then her jaw set and between her teeth she said, "It's a I had so much fun reading this book. Then her jaw set and between her teeth she said, "It's a specially designed corset. The front is shaped like a man's torso. The back is like any other stays. Back lacing. Not in the least interesting. Nothing you haven't seen many hundreds of times before. I'm not going to steal anything. I only want to get my clothes. I shouldn't know what to do with one.

Here's your chance to give me the pair of stinkers you promised in Vinegar Yard. Or was that all boasting? Did the tap on my jaw hurt your little hand too much, my delicate flower? Did you learn your lesson then? Lightning fast and low, her fist shot toward his privates.

He nipped aside in the nick of time. She had left the chair to go to the bed, and stood looking at the packages. View all 8 comments. Aug 25, Miranda Davis rated it it was amazing Shelves: keeper , audio-book. Impossible, Knave's Wager or this is my second favorite L.

Chase Regency. Cannot decide. In my initial Loretta Chase binge-read years ago, I somehow glossed over the manifest wonders of this story. Having just heard the new audiobook, I now realize it's an utterly terrific Chase read. The title hellion is a complicated man, wracked by guilt, discouraged by grief, punishing himself for the crime of surviving too many of his loved ones.

The other hellion, an uncommon woman of many parts, is his Mr. The other hellion, an uncommon woman of many parts, is his perfect complement, though they bicker their way to love, as two strong characters are wont to do when life gets tricky. And tricky it gets! It's as much a bumptious adventure tale as a romance, so there are many interesting revelations and reversals along the way, too. Unlike some of LC's other stories, this has a Dickensian number of characters, all of whom drive different aspects of the multifaceted plot forward.

Most are good, some villainous, all are well-fleshed out and fun to encounter. We are also treated to the reappearance of Lord Dain and his lady, her idiot brother, Bertie Trent, who turns out to have more sense than indicated in Lord of Scoundrels.

Like LoS, this is about uppity women making waves and the men who are manly enough to handle them. Fans of LC and of historical romance written with brilliant wit, intelligence and wonderfully realized characters will enjoy this immensely. I mean, is there anyone who writes like Loretta Chase? Anyone at all? She is unconventional which is not my favorite trope , but she does it in an unaffected way.

She is fearless, loving, caring and make the best out of life's worse experiences. Vere is a rake, friends with Lord Dain "from Lord of Scoundrels" , a man who made the worse of life's trials and succumbed to vice in all its forms in order to avoid facing reality and its shortcomings.

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