Man, every once in a while I hit a book by this author, who I usually enjoy a lot, and just completely bounce off of it. In this case, the setup is that the son of a Duke, Percy, needs to hire Kit, a highway robber who has lately retired and become a coffeeshop owner, in order to rob his father the Duke. There are reasons for this, and attraction is suggested between the two, of course, but it takes a hundred pages before Kit will even agree to the scheme, and then he has to teach Percy how to rob his father himself, because part of the reason Kit retired from his thieving ways is that he has a limp now from a robbery gone wrong, and there are other shenanigans at foot, but it just never really clicks for me. Part of why I continued reading is because it's the first in a series, and I knew that the second novel was about Marian, Percy's childhood friend who was married to his father after his mother died, and I'm still curious about that one. But this felt like a story that could have been a novella of setup for that second story. I will report back on whether the next book works better for me!
Grade: C
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