Two Rogues Make a Right

Two Rogues Make a Right (Seducing the Sedgwicks #3)

By  Cat Sebastian

ISBN: 9780062821584

320 Pages

Available in Paperback, Audible, and on Kindle

Synopsis:

Will Sedgwick can’t believe that after months of searching for his oldest friend, Martin Easterbrook is found hiding in an attic like a gothic nightmare. Intent on nursing Martin back to health, Will kindly kidnaps him and takes him to the countryside to recover, well away from the world.

Martin doesn’t much care where he is or even how he got there. He’s much more concerned that the man he’s loved his entire life is currently waiting on him hand and foot, feeding him soup and making him tea. Martin knows he’s a lost cause, one he doesn’t want Will to waste his life on.

As a lifetime of love transforms into a tender passion both men always desired but neither expected, can they envision a life free from the restrictions of the past, a life with each other?

My Thoughts:

Two Rogues Make a Right is the third installment in Seducing the Sedgwicks, Cat Sebastian's second M/M historical romance series. This book has a markedly different feel from the previous two volumes, and many other regency era romance novels. In this friends to lovers story, the two lead characters already have an existing history, including a couple of brief past romantic encounters, but have never truly explored or admitted those feeling to each other.

Will Sedgwick, the youngest of the series' titular Sedgwick brothers, has just returned from naval service and is is concerned at his inability to locate his best friend Martin, whom he greatly cares about and whom is suffering from an incurable affliction. Martin Easterbrook cares equally about Will, but does not want the young Sedgwick beholden by his malady, doomed to always be his caretaker. Unfortunately, he is not that great at taking care of himself either, and at the beginning of the book he is quite ill. Which forces Will's hand, as he essentially kidnaps Martin and takes him to a cottage in the country where he can be cared for. 

This sojourn to the countryside gives the men a chance to reconnect and learn more about themselves, as well as each other. It gives them an opportunity to explore the feelings that have always been there, under the surface, as they live together peacefully in their little one room cottage. It also gives the reader a chance to enjoy a different setting and lifestyle, in contrast to how most regency era books focus on the ton and the bustling London life with. One of the things that I love about Cat Sebastian's regency era books is how they spend a lot of time outside of London social circles and all that comes with that.

The side characters in Two Rogues Make a Right are delightful. Especially Daisy, whose youthful exuberance is a breath of fresh air, and her mother, who is rational and supportive and protects the men when she deduces that they are more than just an ailing man and his indifferent caretaker. The pair provide a bit of humor to a book that is otherwise pretty serious in tone. One of my favorite bits is when Daisy innocently asks one of the men to pretend to be her beau for very teenage reasons.

Two Rogues Make a Right has much less action and side plot that the previous volumes. But this doesn't detract from the story at all. This volume is much sweeter and focuses more on the pair and their slow burn romance. But this doesn't mean that there is no drama included. A few people start to get ideas about their relationship and try to tear them apart, including Martin's aunt, who tries to control him for her own benefit. Most notably, Martin learns some very interesting information about his father that changes his world and his whole family dynamic.

There is also family drama on the other side. Will's older brother Hartley (from A Gentleman Never Keeps Score) supports his brother, but does not understand or agree with his choice to care so much for Martin. He is distrustful of the man thanks to some bad family history between the Easterbrooks and the Sedgwicks. But then Martin gets an opportunity to show how much he truly cares for Will, which results in Hartley having a change of heart and making peace with Martin, and Martin in turn making reparations for his father's misdeeds.

After reading six other Cat Sebastian books (the entire Turner's series and the first two Seducing the Sedgwicks volumes) back to back, I was pleased that this one had just enough of a difference to keep me interested without feeling old or played out. I really enjoyed Two Rogues Make a Right. With it's friends to lovers storyline, it had almost a completely different vibe than the previous books in the series.

Parent's Guide:

Same as with the rest of the series - 100% not for the kids! This book is adult in nature, with graphic sexual situations. Absolutely 18+