Bombshell (Hell's Belles, #1)
Sarah MacLean
After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If you ask him, he’s been a saint about it, considering the way she looks at him…and the way she talks to him…and the way she’d felt in his arms during their one ill-advised kiss. Except someone has to keep Sesily from tumbling into trouble during her dangerous late-night escapades, and maybe close proximity is exactly what Caleb needs to get this infuriating, outrageous woman out of his system. But now Caleb is the one in trouble, because he’s fast realizing that Sesily isn’t for forgetting…she’s forever. And forever isn’t something he can risk.
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Bombshell
- I was annoyed how Maclean keeps the secret from the reader just to maintain the tension-- it was too easy for the writing, would have preferred the angst maybe
- him going down on her and the closet was abrupt. Their night of passion in the cabin-- felt like half of the plot had been contrived around this golden scene
- elements of the full cast= made it feel full / rounded out (related to Scandals and Scoundrels), but also like it was the fourth in a series? Maybe just bucking the romance trends of first books and listing single ladies for future books...
- it read very feminist for the area and feminist to a 2022 reader
I didn't fully understand why they loved each other-- they already did before the start, so there was no need to really develop much of an emotional bond. I wanted more on that end
- other reviews indicate that the amount of feminism present is too modern/contemporary, especially as the Vigilante girl group is parallel to Charlie's Angels. Even the words used and topics discussed felt anachronistic-- "contemporary dressed up as historical"
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