Lord Vile

Beastly Lords, Book 3

By: Sydney Jane Baily

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

From USA Today best-selling author Sydney Jane Baily 

Lord Michael Alder has always behaved himself, enjoyed the London social Season, and even became engaged in his quiet, unassuming way. Then treachery shatters his gentlemanly character. So be it...if the bon ton thinks him a rogue, he may as well shed the burdensome, boring veneer of decency and decorum.  

A vile lord unleashed.  

Worshiping him from afar, Ada Kathryn is thrilled to encounter the dash-fire viscount in the darkened garden. Minutes later, her innocence in tatters, she waits for the noble Lord Alder to do the honorable thing. Instead, she watches as the most vile lord in London saunters away.  

Two very different reputations at stake. 

Drinking and carousing with the lowliest wenches to the highest aristocrats, Alder greets each day with a throbbing head, a sour stomach, and an even sourer disposition. Until a desirable new lady arrives in London, a polished stranger, not a hint of vengeance. If Lord Vile thought he understood betrayal and heartache, he hasn't seen anything yet....

©2019 Sydney Jane Baily (P)2020 Tantor

Ejoyed

I love a strong female character. She fits the bill. The book does start with dub consent that results in a child. Her family supports her ever though she never discloses the father is. With nothing better to do she learns the market and gets quite good and masses her own wealth. She decides to seek revenge on the father of the child. He has quite the reputation even if he holds to his own moral code. She stays strong thought out and keeps to her plan until she doesn't. Then she sees something that makes her question him again.
I like her a lot. I like that she isn't a Mary Sue, I like that she keeps her wits about her and when she sees some suspicious she is. I like that she didn't just melt. I would expect that someone with his reputation would need to explain himself more often. I enjoyed the honestness of and the realness of the people. They weren't perfect and all the better for it. I would use a credit

Wonderful

Great narrative and good story with lots of groveling on the hero’s part. Misunderstandings and deception created a lot of pain for several people but I liked how it ended with a HEA.

Compelling & Strong FMC

When I read a couple of reviews complaining about how shrew isn't the heroine was, I almost didn't buy the book. But I'm very glad I did as I didn't think that at all. In fact, I wasn't quite sure why they couldn't understand the realistic emotions & betrayal that made it completely believable...not shrewish. Also, the heroine's failure to fawn & get "weak kneed" was refreshing & was exactly what got the hero's attention. The humiliation & hurt she experienced, and the intelligent cleverness she had when interacting was so clearly evident. Plus, we as the reader gets to see the oscillation/struggle between revenge and attraction as it progresses in her arc towards HEA.

The fact that Lord Vile has to painfully adjust and learn the nuances of his heroine IS part of his reform arc. And the brilliance of it is that in too many romances the hero doesn't have to pay at all for his jackass-ery when the heroine just kindof falls into his arms - jerk that he remains. This story, by contrast, was beautifully done so that the justice felt satisfied for both hero & heroine as much as their romance. Their HEA seemed real & is definitely worth the credit.

love this series

best one so far, for me looking for the next ones keep them coming

Very good but a little long.

I enjoyed this book as I’ve enjoyed Bailey’s other two books in this series. I did think it was a little too long but that is a minor disruption. Ada keeps getting angry with Michael because he keeps emphasizing that he had never been with a woman who didn’t want to be with him for her first encounter with him was a rape and he was too in his cups to know the difference. It’s a matter of all’s well that ends well as far as this story goes but he should have been found and taken to task when the incident occurred. She also was at fault, however, for she knew who he was and wouldn’t give his identity. Thus we have a story. Well written. Mesmerizing characters. Etc.