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A Notorious Gentleman . . . Sullivan Waring wants only two things: his rightful inheritance, and revenge against the man who stole it from him. By day, Sullivan is the most respected horse breeder in England; by night, he plunders the ton's most opulent homes to reclaim his late mother's beautiful paintings. His quest is going swimmingly . . . until the night he's discovered by Lady Isabel Chalsey. Clad only in a revealing nightdress, she's an entrancingly different kind of plunder, and how can a thief resist stealing a kiss? A Curious Lady . . . Surprised by a masked man in her own home, Isabel should be quaking with fear. Instead the sight of the sinfully handsome Sullivan makes her tremble with excitement. Who is this man, and why is he so set on this reckless pursuit? Lady Isabel loves a challenge, and she'll dare anything to uncover Sullivan's secret-but she may instead convince him that she is the greatest prize of all.… (more)
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Sullivan is a rather nondescript hero to the story. A fairly mild by-blow of a blue-blood with a talent for horses. His life is neither super traumatic nor super blessed on any level. Nor
Isabel is a spoiled brat, but not THAT much of a spoiled brat. She orders him around and blackmails him, but none of it with any particular venom or enmity. She's the daughter of a titled gentleman, the only daughter, and fears horses (for a good reason) but with no particular flare for the melodramatic.
Instead, they sort of quietly bicker and banter and blackmail and somewhere along the line actually like each other as people and by the time she was sneaking out to meet up with him in the barn, I realized I was sold on a book I didn't particular have a lot of feelings about.
By the time I finished it, I was even more at a loss for what to say about it in specifics. It feels like a meh book by a good author, but ... I've never read anything else by Suzanne Enoch, so I can't even say that with any certainty.
It was a GOOD book, though. And I ended up rather liking the journey that Isabel took, and still being mostly lukewarm toward Sullivan. I've read so many despicable, deeply unlikable heroes, and so many overly amazing lovely ones that honestly, Sullivan was kind of a breath of fresh, if slightly tepid, air.