Jessica represents the Beauty of the story, someone who "enters the Beast’s lair of her own accord" as his equal "no matter how awful" he acts.

Sebastian, Marquess of Dain, is a half-Italian man of unconventional appearance who has been shamed since childhood on account of his large nose and flighty mother who ditched him as a young boy to go live with another man. But boy, did he won me over in the end not by changing into someone unrecognizable but just by being him and falling in love with Jessica. In a 2010 list of "must-reads in romance" for Kirkus Reviews, Sarah Wendell deemed it her favorite historical romance and believed her successful recommendation to a male professor proved its worth. En muchos aspectos me gusta esta novela tanto porque, a golpe de sonrisa y carcajada, con diálogos inteligentes e irónicos (son mi perdición) plasma con una pasmosa seriedad muchos de los comportamientos de la época que en otras románticas se obvian. If you think that I could not do it," she said tightly, "that I could not make you eat out of my hand, if that's what I wanted, I recommend you think again, Beelzebub.He’s determined to continue doing what he does best--sin and sin again—and all that’s going swimmingly, thank you.

American author Loretta Chase began her writing career in 1987 by crafting traditional novels in the Regency romance literary subgenre; [5] Lord of Scoundrels, published in 1995, was her ninth such novel released. Sebastian, the lord of scoundrels himself, is the passionate, larger-than-life, half-Italian half-English Marquess of Dain. One of them was to ejaculate multiple times in to a woman from his village that he shared with a friend.Possessing a love for Italian culture, Chase decided to make her male protagonist, Dain, a "mongrel English aristocrat" and half-Italian. It started off really well - from the first time they met and how she struck him dumb with her repartee! By giving Dain Italian ancestry through his mother, Chase was able to develop his character and justify his motivations. While Dain assumed his wife would be disgusted with his vicious display, she was cheering him on, even giving her own commentary. A storyline as done for funny giggling banters, amusing talk and gossip in the fine salons in Paris, and a angry snorting sniffing depraved English Devil-Marquess.

Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she’s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. When she eventually runs off with someone else, little Sebastian is left lonely, bereft and confused.Now known as Lord Dain, he held quite a bit of influence over Bertie Trent, Jessica’s brother, and was driving him to ruin. I was going to give this 4⭐️ but Jess is a boss ass kick ass bad bitch babe and she deserves all the stars. And it had a lot of scenery change that consumed a big chunk of time,while other HR usually happen in a matter of days,or if they do not,we just get a FIVE WEEKS LATER insert and then the story unnaturally moves on. Chase adds that Dain's difficult childhood stemmed from his parents' inability to accept each other's cultures, which then "warps him and makes him a misfit.