Rowena’s review of The Most Wicked of Sins (The Seven Deadly Sins, Book 2) by Kathryn Caskie.
Hero: Dominic Sheridan
Heroine: Ivy Sinclair
Grade: 4 out of 5
They are the “Seven Deadly sins” – the seven Sinclair brothers and sisters who live for scandal and delight in disgrace…until their father decrees that they must marry in haste …or regret in poverty! Lady Ivy Sinclair can’t live without funds much longer, so she vows to land a sensible husband her father will accept. But just when the gentlemen is about to pop the question, another woman snatches away his attentions. Furious, Ivy hatches a plan–make him jealous by hiring a handsome man to impersonate a marquess–a marquess who happens to be madly in love with her. The moment Ivy boldly kisses Dominic Sheridan- to test his fitness for the task at hand- she’s sure he’s perfect. What Ivy doesn’t know is that the blue-eyed rake isn’t acting at all, but is intent on seducing her into committing the most wicked of sins.
I read and enjoyed the first book in this series, To Sin with a Stranger and I really enjoyed it so I had high hopes for this book and I’m happy to say that Kathryn Caskie didn’t disappoint. I’m in a bit of a historical frenzy right now as most of the books that I’m picking up are of the historical sort and this book was cute.
I wasn’t sure I’d like Ivy since I didn’t care for her at all in Stirling’s book but Caskie did a great job of redeeming Ivy and I ended up liking her.
At the start of the book, Ivy receives a letter from her father and in the letter, he tells her how she’s the biggest disappointment to him with her behavior around town and if she doesn’t clean up her act soon, she’ll be disowned without a shilling to her name. She must secure a betrothal with Tinsdale to get on his good side and she better get it done before he gets there in thirty days. To say that Ivy was surprised is putting it mildly, she was shocked and she was scared. Tinsdale was paying lots of attention on her so she didn’t think it’d be too hard to win his favor and secure a marriage proposal only things go awry when Miss Feeney from Ireland shows up and snags Tinsdale’s attention and dashing all of Ivy’s hopes.
Ivy’s deadly sin is Envy and she concocts a plan that will snare Tinsdale’s favor back to her and the lengths that she goes to put this plan into effect is hilarious. You can’t hold Ivy Sinclair down, she’ll take you out and do whatever it takes to get what she wants and Lord Tinsdale is what she wants…or is it?
She hires Dominic Sheridan to pose as Lord Counterton and he is to dote on her and pretend to be in love with her so that Lord Tinsdale will come crawling back to her. It’s the perfect plan only it backfires on her when instead of wanting to be with Lord Tinsdale, she wants to be with Nick. A whole lot of drama ensues and Caskie does a great job of entertaining the reader and making the reader want more from the different characters. For me, I wanted to see more Grant and Lachlan. I’m also pretty anxious for Siusan’s book which is next up.
Nick was a hottie and I ate every page up that he was on. His relationship with his cousin was a riot and his interactions with Ivy had me laughing right along. At the end when the truth comes out, I thought that was a bit rushed but it didn’t take away from my enjoyment of the book.
I thought this book was well written, it was written to entertain and I was certainly entertained. There were a few places in the book where it dragged a bit but for the most part, it was a pretty solid historical read. I definitely recommend this book to historical lovers and fans of Caskie’s work won’t disappointed.
This book is available from Avon. You can buy it here or here in e-format.
I love this series and have this in my to read pile ! Thanks for the reviews.
Penney
It’s nice to read a good review of this book. I haven’t read it yet so I can’t really give my opinion but the blurb and the excerpt really made me want to read it !!