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The Knave of Hearts: Rhymes With Love Mass Market Paperback – Jan. 26 2016

by Elizabeth Boyle (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 545 ratings
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In the fifth novel of the captivating Rhymes With Love series from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle, a young woman's hopes of a match encounter a wickedly handsome complication . . .

Lavinia Tempest has been eagerly anticipating a spectacular season. But one disastrous pile-up on the Almack's dance floor derails all her plans. Add to that, the very stunning revelations about her mother's scandalous past have become the ton's latest on dits. Lavinia's future has gone from shining bright to blackest night in one misstep.

Alaster "Tuck" Rowland admits he's partly to blame for Lavinia's disastrous debut. But it's not guilt that compels him to restore her reputation. Rather, he's placed a wager that he can make Lavinia into one of the most sought-after ladies in London. Who better than an unrepentant rake to set society astir?

Tuck's motives are hardly noble. But in teaching the lovely Lavinia how to win any man she wants, he suddenly finds himself tangled in the last place he ever imagined: in love.

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  1. Book 5 of 6
    Rhymes With Love
  2. Print length
    384 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Avon
  5. Publication date
    Jan. 26 2016
  6. Dimensions
    10.64 x 2.44 x 17.15 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0062283952
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0062283955
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Elizabeth Boyle has always loved romance and now lives it each and every day by writing adventurous and passionate stories that readers from all around the world have described as “page-turners.” Since her first book was published, she’s seen her romances become New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and has won the RWA RITA® and the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. She resides in Seattle with her family, her garden, and her always-growing collection of yarn. Readers can visit her at www.elizabethboyle.com, or follow her own adventures on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.  www.avonromance.com www.facebook.com/avonromance 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon (Jan. 26 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062283952
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062283955
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 2.44 x 17.15 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 545 ratings

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Elizabeth Boyle's passions include her husband and two sons (or as she calls them, "her heroes in training"). In between the kids's activities, camping and gardening and trying to keep up on her ever-growing knitting pattern collection, she continues to write new and exciting romances.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Rosewood
5.0 out of 5 stars Proper meets rogue
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2016
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I loved this novel - but I have loved most of the novels that Elizabeth Boyle has written in her Rhymes with Love Series and The Bachelor Chronicles Series. I like the humorous style of writing that makes the drama almost funny as well - the characters and their reoccurring roles in novels make it seem like you're part of the novel cheering on favorite characters while worrying about others. I'm a fan! This novel in particular was a follow-up from the last so it was nice to see Piers back and getting better. Livy and Tuck's story was wildly different with Tuck starting out as a rogue but Livy dropping her proper role to become a sensational rogue in her own style.
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Chelsea Jack
4.0 out of 5 stars Felt fresh, with intriguing cast of characters!
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2016
Generally, I enjoyed The Knave of Hearts. I'm a fan of historical romance, and any new twists on familiar storylines make me happy. I liked that Knave of Hearts really embraces the fear of potential fallout for a young woman ruined in the eyes of the ton. I read this book quickly, and found myself picking it back up only a few minutes after putting it down so I could read 'just a few' more pages.

I also enjoyed the chemistry between Tuck and Lavinia. I thought it was pretty strong, and I enjoyed their interactions and the blossoming of feelings between them. There's an intriguing cast of secondary characters, and some activities happening in the background of this story that I assume feature in other books in the series. I definitely would like to read more about many of them. They're a colorful lot, and I feel invested in them!

I did find a few things were 'miss' for me, and they were definitely personal preference things. One is that I didn't like the way the story was framed so that a good chunk of the story was Lavinia recounting what had brought her to the current day in the story. The set-up is not one of my favourites, and I think if I had read other, earlier books in the series that had narrated a different side of events to that point, I might have liked it more. But because I came to this book first, I found this 'looking back to the past' set-up didn't add anything.

I was also frustrated by how handcuffed Lavinia was by circumstances. So much of the early and mid story is really about her having to react to and cope with events caused by others in her life. I was glad when she finally was able to exert some agency, and chart her own course, but yeah... This is purely personal frustration. If the reader embraced Lavinia's journey more fully than I did, I think the book would be that much more fun to read!

Bottom Line

Elizabeth Boyle is a reliable historical romance writer, and I recommend you pick up anything written by her! The Knave of Hearts has moments of levity, of heat, of chemistry, of frustration. Definitely a great read heading into Valentine's Day, and even more so if you've already started the series.

4 stars
For fans of historical romance, bad bets, women who dare.
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Laura L
3.0 out of 5 stars .... to a Swan
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2022
I enjoyed the character growth and romance in this story. I found Lavinia and Tuck intriguing and the more I found out about them as individuals the more I wanted to know. Their interactions are fun and entertaining. Some of the secondary characters added to both the story and different views of the main characters’ personality.

The romance plot was interesting and kept me turning the pages to find out how they would arrive at their HEA. The book also had several subplots, which were interesting but also felt like too much at times. There were parts of the various subplots that left me confused or feeling like I missed something. For the subplot involving the wager, I was hoping for a different ending, but the one we got wasn’t horrible, just not completely satisfying to me.

I enjoyed this book, but wanted more then what I got.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Boyle has wow-ed again
Reviewed in Australia on April 20, 2016
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Elizabeth's usual writing flair reigns, in this her latest addition to the Rhymes With Love series. I've yet to meet an Elizabeth Boyle book that I haven't enjoyed, Read it by itself or after the others, this story is thoroughly enjoyable. The only hard part about reading Elizabeth's stories is waiting for the next one
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Jenny Roma
4.0 out of 5 stars ... is one of my favorites and her Rhymes with Love series is great
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2017
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Elizabeth Boyle is one of my favorites and her Rhymes with Love series is great. This book is no exception. Tuck is very likable and I loved watching his love for Lavinia grow. A good, solid regency romance with just enough steamy scenes to keep it interesting and some light-hearted moments to make it sweet.
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Rosemary
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in Australia on May 19, 2017
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It does follow on from the previous book, but that was good too. Am looking forward to reading the next one now!
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Élodie Nicoli
5.0 out of 5 stars From proper to scandalous
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019
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I do not know if it was because it was a busy weekend but I had a more difficult time to immerse at first in this story but by the end I did enjoyed this read as much as the previous book.
Plus I hoped to see the romance about Lord Charleston and Lady Avenue find its conclusion.
Whatever, it was an entertaining and funny read with a prim and proper young miss letting things go loose to find her true self while the hero has to reconcile his past with the present and accept he can’t change what was done but still go on.
Lavinia is the twin of Louisa, the heroine of The Viscount Who Lived Down The Lane. While one is meddling and want to have nothing to do with society, the other wants to fit even if it means silencing her inner self.
Lavinia lives by lists, compilation of what is proper to do and above all to avoid scandal and gossip but all the lists will never be able to prevent the walking-scandal they are by simply being their mother’s daughters.
It was painful to watch them being shunned and all those by link associated to them.
Alaster Rowland or Tuck, Lord Charleton presumptive’s heir lives with his wits and a small allowance to make ends meet, and most of the time it is not enough. And things get worse when he wagers everything on a drunken night. Now is he to transform a rejected lady in a diamond of the first water.
I loved Tuck, he is loyal to the heart to those he cares and accepts to be seen as someone he is not if it means protecting them. He makes mistakes, lot of them but he never gives up.
Lavinia at first was not my favorited of the twins but she grows up during the story, going from the rigid miss to a young woman who will throw everything she thought right to the window to get her man even when he deceived her.
In all, a full of actions romance with some very funny moments.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the author's best effort.
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2016
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This was an often confusing story.

But first - the factual errors. You could not - within a space of a couple of hours - a) secure a special marriage licence; AND b) secure the IMMEDIATE use of St George's; AND c) secure the services of a pastor/reverend to perform the wedding ceremony; AND d) actually be wed within a couple of hours of making the decision to wed. But the hero and a secondary character both do this on separate occasions.

Yeah...........as if.

The heroine was constantly bawling in the first part of the book. Drove me nuts. I was ready to toss the book away before I'd gotten even a third of the way into it. Then there were her list of proper rules - cited out loud and reflected upon in privacy - AD NAUSEUM. Then, in one afternoon, she goes from being a prudent and determined-to-be-proper-young miss to being an adept pickpocket eager to dress as a courtesan. She is also supposed to be disastrously clumsy - the setting other peoples' homes on fire by her clumsiness caliber of clumsy, but oddly enough, that clumsiness is never manifested in the everyday minutae of her daily activities.... Just that time she takes a tumble at Almack's on the night of her come-out and inadvertently sends everyone tumbling like skittles.

There are caricatures about such incidents, but I have never read anything about them resulting in someone being so totally ostracized by Society as a result.

The hero. I wanted to hit him over the head with his bottle of brandy by the time I'd read the word squiffy for the umpteenth time in just the first few pages. But he, at least, did have some redeeming features - unlike most of the characters in this story.

There were remarkably very few who could be called normal, well-adjusted human beings (or animals). Forget the feral monstrous cat with feline psychological problems. Every secondary character was far from normal, and not just eccentric. Somewhere in the mix were two brats called Bits and Bobs (I still can't fathom how they fit in except as the low-born street urchins rescued by a secondary character for an 'awww' moment and as a means of giving the hero a convenient bit of information).

Even the villain was not done justice. There was nothing to indicate that he, rightly or wrongly, had cause to believe his goals served a good purpose. I don't know about you, but I like to see heroes come up against a WORTHY villain, one who can make me feel a degree of sympathy for their cause - it somehow makes the hero's task that much more challenging. But this villain was just an insipid, ranting wannabe acting out of pure spite.

There were moments of humor. There were moments of curiosity. There were even moments when I sympathised with the hero and/or heroine, but by and large, I was never able to connect with the heroine. The hero, once he stopped getting 'squiffy' was okay, but the name 'Tuck'? Ugghhh.

I could find no constructive purpose for the way the story opened. Having it be told in retrospect added nothing to the plot and did not move the story along. In fact, it rather muddied the waters and confused the hell out of me.

The nub of the story - the issue of how a young girl, cut by Society on the night she makes her come-out, can salvage her place in Society - had promise. That promise just wasn't delivered on in a satisfactory manner.

If you want to give this story a go, I would recommend that you wait until it goes on sale at a far lower price. At best, you'll get a bargain. At worst, you will have minimized your loss.
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