The Player (Rockliffe Book 3), by Stella Riley
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The Player (Rockliffe Book 3), by Stella Riley
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Tragedy drove him into unwilling exile. Death demands his equally reluctant return. In the decade between, he has answered to many names and amassed a variety of secrets. Now the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu must resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre ... a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name, thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy, remains tarnished by an old scandal. Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows. Grand-daughter of a wealthy wool-merchant, Caroline Maitland is not finding her Society debut either easy or enjoyable ... but to Marcus Sheringham she is the perfect solution to his crushing mountain of debt. Knowing she will be married for her money, Caroline never believed she would find love. But neither did she bargain for a certain charming French highwayman ... and a surprising turn of events. The stage is set, the cast assembled and the Duke of Rockliffe waits for the curtain to rise. In the wings, Lord Sarre prepares to make his entrance. He doesn't expect to be greeted with applause.
The Player (Rockliffe Book 3), by Stella Riley- Amazon Sales Rank: #250331 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-06
- Released on: 2015-03-06
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. The Player is a Pleasure By Danker SPOILERSYet again, Riley comes up trumps. The Player is a delight.Not only does it give a stage to favourites from previous books in the Rockliffe series, it introduces Caroline and Adrian, very worthy successors to the fabulous heroines and heroes of The Parfait Knight and The Mésalliance.Caroline is a hugely wealthy heiress (from Yorkshire trade) who has no experience with/or connections to the ton. She is in London for the Season, living with her somewhat gormless and critical mother and two beautiful, affectionate younger step-sisters. She sees herself as plain, because her mother tells her she is every day. She dresses badly because, while her merchant Grandfather loves her, his idea of taste doesn't gel with that of the ton.With no men in the household and her mentor a woman who is being paid to take her to parties and balls, and so on, Caroline has little or no protection from fortune hunters. She is feeling pressured, as she is being driven to marry a title by the requirements of her dowry (but also because she wants to make her grandfather proud, her mother happy and her sisters secure).She is perspicacious in some ways (the villain fails to fool her) and naive/needy in others (the highwayman takes little effort to convince her to abandon the hopes of her grandfather and mother). At core, she is loving, kind, amusing, intelligent and sufficiently empathetic to be able to read Adrian's face and see through his masks to the many layers that protect his true personality.Caroline may be a great character, but it is Adrian who is the heartthrob. He is a talented chameleon (those acting scenes! Claude Duval!) which makes him out-of-the-ordinary fascinating. He is breathtakingly beautiful, with a penchant for glorious waistcoats and hair that (powdered or not) demands to be touched (you've got to love the Georgian era). He is tormented by tragedy, betrayal and the legacy of narcissistic, cruel, disloyal and uncaring parents. He is like many heroes in romanceland - driven by a desire for revenge.Adrian is a powerful man, but his reticence and lack of confidence around Caroline, after he has duped her, make him vulnerable and loveable. As does his purchase of gowns to make her feel beautiful, even as he (the peacock) acknowledges he couldn't care if she wore a sack. But it is his innate decency to the less fortunate, as well as his deeply hidden desire to love and be loved that make him exquisitely endearing.Just as Caroline wants to hold him close, so will Riley's readers.The Player includes a good collection of side characters and an intimation that Nicholas may provide a fourth story in the series. Good. Great.I have only one criticism of the Player. I wanted it to continue for another 200 pages. Highly recommended.ETA1: I bought this book from AMAZON, but, because I live outside the U.S. it does not appear as a verified purchase when I review on the U.S. site.ETA2 : I love the staid, old fashioned covers for all 3,of the books in this series.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. One of those few books that truly deserves 5 stars By Sandy Milan I'm pretty stingy with 5 stars these days but I can't think of a book more deserving. This story is a bit longer than usual but so captivating that I didn't get much sleep last night (honestly). I've been thinking it about it all day and am tempted to go back and start it all over again. This is the third book in the series and I think it could stand alone but I wouldn't recommend it since the other two are also really good. What makes this one stand out is the way the author wrote her characters. The H has so many layers and is incredibly complex. The h seems rather drab and dull to start but we come to know an incredibly beautiful person. The secondary characters are great as usual and we get snippets on the main characters from the other books plus some new ones. The story starts off pretty slowly and I wasn't sure that I actually liked the H for at least a third of the book. However such is the skill of the author that the reader begins to question why the H thinks certain things but acts in a different way.The H makes a reluctant return to England after 10 years away on the continent, to take up his position as an Earl. He was accused of having killed his late fiancée and his father sent him away. He has supported himself doing all sorts of things including gambling and acting. He also has an interest in a gaming club in London, which is doing very well. His nemesis is courting the h because he needs her dowry to settle all of his debts. The h is the granddaughter of a wealthy commoner and isn't particularly attractive, has a pretty common mother and 2 half-sisters and hideous outfits for the seasons. The H is only interested in the h to the extent that he wants to prevent his nemesis from getting hold of her dowry. The villain is pretty awful I have to say and although the mystery part of the story is good, the romance is just wonderful. I actually can't do it enough justice by trying to summarise.I was totally and completely sucked in by this book. I can't remember when last I read such an engaging tale and I cannot wait for the next.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Now this is what historical romance should be. By OLT There should be more Stella Rileys. Maybe scientists could work on at least one clone so that we could have one Stella R. to write more Rockliffe Georgian romances while the other Stella R. keeps us supplied with more Roundheads and Cavaliers historical fiction. As it is, there are never enough books by Riley to satisfy me.Case in point: This one. I just finished it and I already want another one. Riley's too good. Most other HRs, with a few exceptions such as those by Cecilia Grant, Meredith Duran, Joanna Bourne and Sherry Thomas, are dreck, drivel or anachronistic silliness in comparison.This is #3 in Riley's Georgian series. You'll meet old friends from the first two books here but the story belongs to Adrian Devereux, who, in 1776, is returning to England after 10 years in France to take his position as Earl of Sarre. There's tragedy in his past and a cloud of suspicion over his head about the death of his betrothed those ten years ago. He's haunted by her death, by an unexpected betrayal, and by the lack of family care and support.Adrian's a complicated, complex, charismatic figure. He's also a bit of a quick-personality-change artist, having lived by his wits and his fine acting abilities on the stage while on the Continent. He's such a play actor hiding behind his various roles that it's enough to make one ask "Will the real Adrian please stand up?"Heroine Caroline is the wealthy heiress of a grandfather in trade. She's been educated fairly well, has lost her Yorkshire accent and has picked up some social graces, but her family is pretty much low-brow. She's having a London season funded by grandfather to find herself a husband from the peerage but it hasn't been too successful so far, with the exception of the wooing by a certain handsome, charming peer badly in need of funds to pay his debts and well known to hero Adrian.So now you just have to read this to see how it all comes together. It's exciting, often funny, romantic, poignant and just so darned intelligently and well written. Find out how Adrian, with the help of Caroline, is finally able to open his true self to others. Wonderful story of the healing power of love and acceptance.
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