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    Gentle Rogue
    Gentle Rogue
    Gentle Rogue
    Audiobook10 hours

    Gentle Rogue

    Written by Johanna Lindsey

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    About this audiobook

    Heartsick and desperate to leave her sorrows on England’s shores, innocent Georgina Anderson seeks passage on the “gentleman’s ship,” Maiden Anne, disguised as a cabin boy. The captain, however, is no gentleman; he’s the ex-pirate and irrepressible rake, James Malory.

    The black sheep of a proud, tempestuous family, Malory soon sees through Georgina’s masquerade and is enchanted by the courageous, high-spirited lady he has forced into intimate servitude. But though he has sworn he will never be enticed into matrimony, Captain Malory has finally met his match on the high seas—undone by the passionate heart of one remarkable beauty whose love of freedom and adventure rivals his own.

    Editor's Note

    In memoriam…

    It was announced at the end of 2019 that bestselling romance novelist Johanna Lindsey died after battling Stage 4 lung cancer. Her most beloved novel is “Gentle Rogue,” about a woman disguising herself as a man who’s caught the eye of an insatiable and irresistible ex-pirate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 29, 2008
    ISBN9781423351054
    Gentle Rogue
    Author

    Johanna Lindsey

    Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) was world-renowned for her “mastery of historical romance” (Entertainment Weekly), with more than sixty million copies of her novels sold. She was the author of nearly sixty nationally bestselling novels, many of which reached the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. 

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    • 5/5
      Exactly what I am looking for in HR.Fun,romance,a light read!Both this and the 4rth one are hilarious!
    • 4/5
      I loved #1 and was pleased with this book #3 as I wanted to hear about James's story.

      It was lovely and so nice not to have so much sparring. James is such a devil and Georgia has such a spark that they richly deserve each other.

      The only criticism is that it was overly long and could have been shortened by 50 pages!
    • 5/5
      loved the dry humor and inside jokes between the two main characters
    • 1/5
      Instead listening to the audiobook, I’d rather read the book. I just can’t take this audio narrator doing male voices.
    • 4/5
      This is the first Malory novel I read, before realizing it was a series. This is by far my favorite of the group! I love the entire relationship between George and James.
    • 5/5
      I remember reading this book 30 years ago and how much I loved it. I’ve thought about the story off and on through the years, but I could not remember the name or who wrote it. I only remembered that Fabio was on the cover with a ship. Lol. Thanks to the magical evolution of Google, I was finally able to search through the hundreds of Fabio covers to find it and it was as wonderful as I remembered!
    • 5/5
      Sweet and hilarious. You cannot help being enchanted with the characters.
    • 5/5
      I love all the Mallory family books. Your plots and the commeradity of the character’s make me fall in love with them all over and over. Thank you for such entertaining audiobooks
    • 5/5
      This is the best book in the series so far, and they have all been good.
    • 2/5
      #50States50Romances #Connecticut

      Sadly, I didn't read the Fabio cover because that cover is way more indicative of the book's contents. It's not a terrible book, but it's not good, either. I mean, the author chose to name a ship Pogrom, ffs. That ship only has a cameo, but still set the tone for me for the rest of the book. The plot's a mess, full of huge time skips and a what-the-what of an "I did it because i love you" form the hero. The book was originally published in 1990 and it shows. It's overly-long— spending too much time on descriptions of furniture and settings and not enough on actual plot—and a couple of scenes that veer way too close to "forcible seduction" (though the author makes a point of the heroine's consent) for me to feel completely comfortable. And, to be honest, my biggest problem was that I never felt anything for, about, or from the hero and heroine. I mean, I just didn't care and I never really felt that they did, either. You can't just tell me they love each other and expect that to be enough. I have to see it and feel it for myself and that didn't happen.

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    • 4/5
      I loved this. The heroine, Georgie, was very lovable, and a bit of a tomboy who had grown into a pretty woman but didn't know her beauty. I LOVED her going in drag as James' cabin boy, and that unknown to her, he was aware of who she was. I laughed out loud several times throughout the book. There was tons of angst, Georgie's brothers were hilarious, and overall this was a lot of fun. It sort of dragged on at the end, but I enjoyed this book a lot. I may read more about the Malory brothers and their reformations from rakedom. (4.5 stars)
    • 4/5
      4.5 Stars

      This is still one of my favourite books. James Malory is a great leading man and while Georgina is a bit naive sometimes (I guess she could be allowed her being an innocent and all) she is spunky and a good match for James. I love reading their conversations and found myself wanting to get back to story often -even though I know what's going to happen.

      As this book was a reread for me I noticed this time around that there was a fair amount of recapping which seemed a bit tedious having just read the previous books. Also, as this is the third book in the series.. if you hadn't read the other two, those recaps would spoil those stories instead of just dropping hints that make you want to read them. So because of that I docked half a star.

      This series has a wonderful bunch of characters. Jeremy and Georgina's are delightful and even now I look forward to rereading their stories. If you have never read this series, I would recommend that you do!
    • 4/5
      Georgina Anderson travels from her home in America over to England to find out what happened to her erstwhile fiance who was conscripted into the British Army. Turns out he's married someone else. In a fit of outrage, and just wanting to get home, Georgie disguises herself as a cabin boy in order to catch the first boat back to America. Captain James Malory, previously the Dread Pirate Roberts Captain Hawke figures out her ruse pretty quickly, but then has a great time seducing her into giving it up. The Malory series is adorable, even though the men are a little marriage-avoidant, and the women a little too prone to (idiotically) getting themselves into dangerous situations so that they can be 'rescued'. Classic late 80's/early 90's romance.
    • 4/5
      This is the first Malory novel I read, before realizing it was a series. This is by far my favorite of the group! I love the entire relationship between George and James.
    • 3/5
      I read this during my historic romance era. Very predictable love story-hate story- love story on and on until "I love you even though I said I never would marry or love anyone", you know the kind of story I am talking about. Shallow me, I did enjoy the story, but it wasn't very deep in development. 3 stars and that was generous.
    • 5/5
      I love this series. I wish I had continued this series earlier. I feel in love the the Malory's when I first picked up the books out of order. When I realized it was part of a series I went back and started at the beginning. Gentle Rogue continues with James Malory and Georgina Anderson. James is a confirmed bachelor. He never plans to get married, that is until me meets Georgina Anderson in a tavern. She is not dressed in the normal lady attire. Instead she is in boys breeches.Georgina is in England looking for her betrothed Malcolm. She would not be in England otherwise. Georgina is the only girl in the Anderson family. Her brothers are protective of her. The tension between Georgina and James is priceless. Georgina and Mac are heading back to America and the first ship they are able to bored happens to be James Malory's ship. Georgina has to pretend to be a boy. She is James' cabin boy. I loved the chemistry between James and George (the nick name James gives her) during the whole voyage back home. Also seeing the to family's together was a laugh a minute. The ribbing from both sides just makes you laugh out loud. I can't wait to continue with this series.
    • 4/5
      This book had be grinning like a loon. After an afternoon of reading, my face hurts!
    • 4/5
      This wasn't bad, and I liked it pretty much, but alas, it's another pirate romance - not my favorite genre... I swore I'd give this series another chance with Gentle Rogue, (which is my favorite of the series so far), but I found the whole Georgie as cabin boy and her succumbing to James' charms so easily (and fast) too contrived. Then, the whole dumb misunderstanding between James and Georgie later on was tedious and the plot became so convoluted with all the various brothers - I lost track of the plotline and their relationship - was it on or off? Still, compared to it's predecessors, this was above average.
    • 2/5
      This was a fun story. My primary reason for reading it is that it was recommended as a cross-dressing romance book, meaning that a woman dresses as a man and a man falls for her. In this one, the guy knows she is a woman early on so it didn't have quite as much hijinks, but I still enjoyed the story. The sex scenes are more vague than what is printed commonly nowadays, so that was a nice change.
    • 5/5
      Gentle Rogue was the first book that I read by Johanna Lindsey and just like chocolates you can't have just one. James and Georgina are a very unlikely couple who meet while Georgina is trying to find her fiance in London. The courtship between James and Georgina is rocky but you can't help love them. James is a sarcastic rogue that believes in doing what ever he wants and Georgina is a head strong woman who doesn't let anyone step over her.
    • 5/5
      Okay, I'm cheating here, and I don't like them all equally, but I do love the Mallory's. They're all funny. I especially liked "Love Only Once" (the first book), "Gentle Rogue" (my favorite), and "The Magic of You" (where the heroine chases the hero shamelessly).
    • 2/5
      As something of a connoisseur of romance novels, I have read my share of simply bad books. I would not normally have expected one from Lindsey's heyday to arise in that category, but "Gentle Rogue" confounds all expectations and does just that. The book is well-written, the characters reasonably well-developed, and the plot no less plausible than is average; the reading does not drag too tediously, and there are numerous opportunities for really heart-wrenching romance; unfortunately, Lindsey fails to capitalize on any of these. The extreme popularity of this book bewilders me.Georgie, the heroine, is not generally unlikable. Her failure to realize that Captain Malory discerned her gender does nothing to recommend her intellect, and the way she childishly mimics Malory's habit of sarcasm, which "was not her forte," (among other things, e.g. a British accent, a manner of raising her eyebrow, and an entire style of humor) suggests childish infatuation. But for all that, her personality is not particularly offensive. Her naïve description of sexual arousal as a type of "nausea" is even endearing.This sentence summarizes my frustration with Georgie: "Her temper wanted to flare, but when James rested between her thighs, anger was the farthest thing from her mind." This sentiment is repeated with shocking frequency, no matter how he deliberately humiliates or hurts her. I understand the ease in rechanneling anger into lust, but Georgie's legitimate problems repeatedly disappear when James kisses her into submission. He refuses to let her see her own family and her response is to rage at her brothers for "kidnapping" her when they (very naturally) attempt to help her. He refuses to let her call herself his wife, and when she asks if that makes her his whore, he says yes. Her anger at this doesn't last more than a few sentences; instead she does an admirable job of proving him right. He, in effect, sexually manipulates her into being pliable and content, and… it works. With no apparent resentment or even realization on her part. Nothing explains her devotion to him, as he treats her like a valueless sex object for the duration of the novel. At some points it appears that she is near to calling him out on his blatant use and abuse of her, but nothing ever comes of it. Instead, she settles for the "tenderness" she senses when they make love, a cringingly classic female mistake. His final declaration of love is unconvincing, but she doesn't care—she begs to return to him even before it's issued—and she proceeds to gush that "he is her life" and further inflate his impossible ego. (This ego is, admittedly, nothing out of the ordinary; but the delight I take in these novels is that the female usually manages to take the hero down a peg. Georgie only lowers herself.)Making Georgie's ludicrous gullibility even more obvious is the comparison drawn to her brother-in-law and his wife. James mockingly refers to the way in which his brother's wife withheld sexual favors from him during a fight (occurring in a previous book), and can confidently assert that his own wife would never do such a thing. Tragically, he is right. Georgie's internal dialogues, depicted as between herself and "her conscience," are invariably lost by her conscience and won by some hedonistic part of herself with no practicality and less self-respect.In short, this book was difficult to finish; I had absolutely no desire for Georgie to have her foolishness unpunished, and I could not bear for James to have his misogyny and manipulativeness forever unchecked. If I were Georgie's brothers, I would have followed through on the threat to beat some sense into her. Perhaps she could have used it.
    • 4/5
      This is just one Malory Novel. All of them are just lovely, and a must read, but start from the beginning...