Matilda Brooks, Tilly, is unlike most heroines and that is why I love her so much. She is tall, lanky, and has tons of freckles; she feels real and not the "beauty" most romance has as their heroine. She swears to reform Sullivan Chase, Viscount Glenbrook, her brother in law, who is always trying to rile her up. Unbeknownst to her he has pined for her for years but thought she still was infatuated with his younger brother. They are forced to marry after a carriage accident; but both going into the marriage mentally against the other and feel trapped. There are many misunderstandings and they just do not communicate with each other. Their journey was slow and will have you screaming at them; but sometimes that makes for the best books as you are so emotionally invested in them. This book reels you in and keeps you hooked, you can easily stay up all night just to finish this book! DOES NOT DISAPPOINT!!

As a Lady of Virtue, Matilda Brooks swears to reform the most despicable man of her acquaintance, her brother-in-law, Sullivan Chase, Viscount Glenbrook. However, when she confronts him, he laughs off her concern about his slothful ways. When Tilly's carriage suffers an accident, Sullivan happens by & rescues her but his unexpected act of chivalry ends up costing them both their freedom. Her compromised reputation and his honourable declaration forces them into a marriage neither of them wants.
This is the fourth book in this very enjoyable series, it could be read on its own but I feel to fully appreciate it then it would be better to read the series in order. I thoroughly enjoyed the misunderstandings, secrets & mistrust between the pair. The chemistry between them sizzled but both didn’t realise they were falling in love until it was nearly too late. I loved how Till grew in confidence throughout the book & how the pair complemented each other. There was a mystery which wasn't resolved & whilst I felt 95% of the book was a five star read the ending left me with questions which weren’t answered & unresolved issues, I hope these will be resolved in future books & as ever I would have loved an epilogue to round everything off.
My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read

The Virgin and the Viscount is the fourth book in the Lords of Vice series, that follows women who have each selected a gentleman based on an obvious sin to reform. This tells the story of Tilly, and her brother-in-law by marriage, Sullivan. They have always had a negative relationship, based on Sullivan’s teasing and Tilly’s interest originally in his younger brother. Over a series of incidents, including mistaken identity, a carriage accident, only one room at the inn, and a forged marriage, the couple attempts to make their relationship work.

I would rate this 3.5 stars overall. This was the first book I have read of this series, and I felt there was enough information given to understand characters and plot points from past books without having to completely retell those stories. I loved the heat between Tilly and Sullivan, and the enemies-to-lovers arc felt natural. I do feel the large conflict that they had to overcome for their HEA want played out well, happening on the last page, and there were some unanswered questions that could have been handled with an epilogue, but maybe in book 5? I will definitely be going back and reading the other three books in the series while I wait.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

There is just something satisfying about a good story, especially a love/hate relationship. After Tilly accidently reveals her secret to Sullivan there is tension and animosity between them. They are forced together, where Tilly begins to question her initial decision about Sullivan's character. Meanwhile, he is still under the impression that Tilly is in love with someone else. As there story unfolds, dormant feelings and passions spill on to the pages to make a heartfelt and steamy story. My only wish is that it was longer and explained a bit more about Lady X and the consequences for certain people. However, I would absolutely recommend this book!

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I became interested in this book because I love the forced marriage trope in historical romance books. So, I went in with high expectations. And luckily for me, I was not disappointed. I really loved this book! I liked our hero and heroine right from the start and I really liked their chemistry. What I like with the forced marriage trope is this forced proximity between the main couple and I thought the author did it well. I had a super hard time putting the book down and I ended up reading it in one sitting, staying up late at night finishing it. Biggest problem I had with this book is that I wanted more. I easily wanted at least 100 more pages for this book (even if it were probably good for my sleep that it was not) and a small epilogue would have been nice. I love epilogues in romance books, and I was a bit disappointed that it had none. It was a pretty straight forward romance books, it did contain some thriller elements but very little.

Overall, I was super happy that I read this book and I am really looking forward to reading more from this author and this series in the future.

3.65 Stars of ANNNGSSTTTT!

This was a very tricky book to rate. There were plenty of things I adored.

I thought Matilda ‘Tilly’ Brooks was super cool. I loved that she was tall, lanky, gap-toothed, and COVERED in freckles. I liked that she was belligerent and extremely vulnerable due to her low self-esteem. I thought Sullivan was great with his confused pining after Tilly for six(ish) years. I liked that they were forced to marry and then struggle to let their guards down, that was all wonderful.

I am generally ambivalent about premises where there are secret vigilante clubs, but that is just me and so I won’t factor that opinion into the rating. I will say I did not hate this one, it was kind of cool.
I should preface the rest of this by saying that 1) I love this kind of trope: forced marriage and lack of communication and endless misunderstanding; but 2) one of my favourite Historical Romances of all time is in fact, in my opinion, the ULTIMATE ‘couple suffering because they just don’t talk’… is The Mésalliance. My GoodReads friends probably know this. I love that book. There are several others I enjoy, from Mary Balogh and Scarlett Scott, and most recently (and it was a Chef’s Kiss) Eve Pendle’s Falling for a Rake. It is a tricky trope though, because you have to achieve the ‘push-and-pull’ but you also need relationship and character arcs so that the story has direction and readers sense progress (it makes the set-backs and the eventual HEA more emotionally poignant, ya know?). Here? This book was absolutely bursting with potential. Like a maple tree simply waiting to be stabbed to release its delicious sap into the world (too much?). There were endless moments of me essentially being like, “C’mon DeHart, TAP THE MAPLE TREE!” and she didn’t. Instead of there before milestone moments where the characters progressively let their guards down, only to lose ground again (which is, I think, the aim in this trope) is felt more ‘1 step forward, 7 steps back,’ with no sharing ever. Which didn’t relent until the last moment. While the sex is being used as an intimacy device, I needed some more sharing. From both MCs.

BUT SPEAKING OF THE SEX! Wowza, Robyn. Very well done. SPOILER ALERT! There is one dub-con/non-con spanking scene but I thought it worked incredibly well. I appreciated that DeHart didn’t write Tilly into a deviant for liking being spanked and then telling Sullivan about it. I adored that it was this mutually enjoyable ‘punishment’ that essentially goes unacknowledged but is evidently quietly accepted. The sexual tension was extremely well done and made sense here! END SPOILERS.

So, like I said, this is tricky to rate. There is a lot to love, but a lot of untapped syrup for me. If you love angst, this is sweet and gut-wrenching at the same time. DeHart is a very talented writer, and clearly can write a kicker of a story, so I’d still recommend this book.

I had no idea this was part of a series when I picked it up. However, I do think I managed to figure out the whole Ladies of Virtue group without having read previous books. For the most part I was okay reading this as a standalone.
Let me start by saying this was a really enjoyable reading experience. I practically read the whole book in one sitting! I couldn’t put it down.
Sullivan and Tilly have wonderful banter and their chemistry is off the charts. Their relationship is sot of an enemies to lovers/slow burn. I loved how besotted Sullivan was with Tilly right from the start. Their conflict was understandable and had a meaningful, believable conclusion.
Tilly was a unique heroine. She gets to protect herself and others, and it was great that the author was able to show her doing that on multiple occasions. I think the idea behind the Ladies of Virtue group is wonderful and can’t wait to read the backlist of the series to discover more.
Thank you NetGalley and Entangled Publishing for the arc. This does not effect my thoughts, opinions or review.

A cute story of mismatched people who find love in an unexpected way. The characters were real with thoughts and feelings of their own. I really like the pretty cover and the author is one of my favorites.
Matilda Brooks sets out to reform her brother in-law Sullivan Chase, Viscount Glenbrook, who makes her mad every chance he gets. He's very arrogant, and too charming for his own good.. When a carriage accident happens Tilly is saved by the most shady knight in armor, Sullivan does the honorable thing and proposes marriage.
So they both find themselves in an awkward situation but fate has another idea. Love is the key, and ahappy ever after.
I appreciate Net Galley for this ARC title in which I gave an honest review.

I was given a copy via NetGalley for my honest review.

This is a 3.5 star book rounded up to 4 stars.

The book good, had a couple of fun twist that you don't always see in historical romances. I am always a fan of enemies to lovers, and the characters banter was on point. This is fourth book in the series, it can be read as a stand alone, there is enough back story that you understand what is happening. My problem with the book that is that the ending left so many questions unanswered, The build up so good with a what is happening with the hero and then bam... nothing.. the book is over. Yes, the hero takes over, but what the flip happened to everything the bad guy was doing?!?

*Spoiler Alert*

Sullivan and Tilly! They are the cutest couple, Tilly has never realized that he just loves to tease her, and he's mesmerized by her. Tilly accidentally tells Sullivan that she was in love with his younger brother Thomas, so Sullivan even years later still thinks she holds the torch for him. Little does he know, she realizes it was childish infatuation and nothing more. Tilly has a complex on how she's too tall and not that pretty etc, so doesn't think she's worthy of Sullivan. Sullivan always a gentleman even though for some reason she has misconceptions in her head. The story goes on full of misconceptions of each other. They are wed, literally because Sullivan is doing the honorable thing. Where are honorable gentleman these days? do they even exists?
The whole book was wonderful, but one part disappointed me, when they introduced the plot where Sullivan's brother Roderick had been or might have been murdered, but his younger brother Thomas- now they never gave a conclusion to this plot, we never knew what happened so that was the frustrating part.
I thought once Tilly and Sullivan figure out their feelings, and Tilly will help Sullivan uncover the murderer!
Lastly, there isn't a epilogue at the end or a sneak peak if there's another book. why? I love to read on they had three kids and Thomas was hanged for murder or something? I think if the author added it this it wouldn't have led to a million questions in my mind.
Overall I did enjoy the book and if it had these two things I definitely would have given it a full 5 stars.

I was given this book for free from Netgalley, I read it cover to cover and all the opinions are my OWN.

Four and a half stars. The Virgin and the Viscount is the fourth book in Robyn DeHart’s Lords of Vice Series. The books are centred around a group of ladies who are members of a secret institution called the Ladies of Virtue, an organisation of women who are trained to deal with petty thieves and nuisances on the street. A few of the ladies decide to each tackle some form of reformation of the cads in the ballroom as part of their duties based on the seven deadly sins which is where the Lords of Vice originates from. I have not actually read the previous books and it is not too difficult to read without feeling you have missed out.
Lady Matilda Ramsey is a member of this group and it is her turn to select a member of the peerage to try to reform. She decides upon Sullivan Chase, Viscount Glenbrook who it seems suffers from sloth, leading a carefree life whilst his younger brother runs his estates. Sullivan and she share a history as he is the brother of her sister’s husband Thomas and had unfortunately been the one who had inadvertently heard her profession of love for Thomas years ago. He has kept her secret all these years but there is something about him that she does not trust. He is arrogant, flirtatious and just too charming.
But a carriage accident and her subsequent rescue by Sullivan leads to scandal and her reputation being compromised. Forced to marry, can Tilly make a success of life with a man she despises?
I have to say I loved Sullivan. He is honourable, charming, handsome and kind. He had a lot of issues from his time in the wars and his discoveries about his brother which I do not think were explored as much as they could be. They were acknowledged but he didn’t receive the support he could have. He was quite high handed and maybe unreasonable about Tilly working as she does but his issues do explain a little about his behaviour towards Tilly’s work with the Ladies of Virtue. He also had the patience of a saint whilst putting up with all of Tilly’s mistrust.
I had mixed feelings about Tilly. It took me a while to warm to her and I am not sure I really did. You can sympathise with the way she has been treated by her mother and sister all her life and appreciate her insecurities, but she was so relentlessly judgemental towards Sullivan almost the entirety of the book. She was so quick to judge him and find him wanting in almost every aspect of the story despite him never ever having given her any indication that her prejudices were correct. He did tease her a lot but that was almost always as a reaction against her disdainful attitude. He never treated her with anything but kindness and honour and she really threw a lot of it back in her face. She even acknowledges that she may wrong about him [far too late, in my opinion] but at the end, at a pivotal moment, she still immediately tries him and finds him guilty with no consideration of his feelings and motives. Added to that, matters are only resolved when Sullivan apologises to her but there is no acknowledgement back. Her blind acceptance of Thomas’s words against her actual experience of Sullivan’s goodness didn’t feel right.
The story was interesting, and I read it in a couple of sittings. I was happy that Sullivan and Tilly received their happy ever after but I felt that a few things were left unresolved. Sullivan’s quest to obtain justice for his elder brother seems like it was almost casually abandoned. I felt Sullivan and [Roderick] deserved better. Also, Thomas did not get his comeuppance at all. Since this is a series, I am hoping that these issues get addressed in the next books. I would also have loved an epilogue of some sort to show that they were happy.
I did enjoy the story and will go back and read the previous books in the series. I am adding an extra half star just for Sullivan!
I received an ARC copy of this book via NetGalley for my honest opinion.

Maybe it would've been better if I had read the previous books in the series. It was okay, but I think I would've cared more about the characters that way.

This is book 4 in the Lords of Vice series.
Although it can be read as a stand alone, it would be better to have read the previous books.
Matilda (Tilly) is a member of The Ladies of Virtue society. They make it their mission to help the Lords of Vice correct their bad ways.
Sullivan is a second son who serves in the military. When he comes home he finds out his older brother has died and he is now the Viscount. His brother Thomas has taken over the estates and failed to notify him of the passing of his brother.
Matilda feels that Sullivan needs help in correcting his slothful ways. So she decides to help him straighten out.
After being caught in a compromising situation, they have to marry.
The chemistry between them is hot!!!
But there are so many things against them, including his brother, Thomas who may have killed Sullivan's older brother.
The story, the chemistry was great . I loved Matilda and Sullivan's story. My only criticism is that the story's secondary storyline, which wove through out the book, was that of Thomas and whether he did or didn't kill Roderick. That was never answered. The story ended kind of abruptly. I was disappointed in that. Solve that and this book would have been great. Hence only 4⭐⭐⭐⭐.

Roderick and Sullivan Chase are the two older brothers of the five. He is a soldier and goes off to war. He has been gone five years. When he returns, he finds out Roderick is dead and has been for two years. Nobody notified him. Thomas, third in line has taken up Sullivan's responsibilities. He and his older brother were the best of friends. The way he died leads Sullivan to believe he was murdered, but by whom?
Matilda Ramsey, a sweet but independent lady. She thought Sullivan was Sloth full. She felt Thomas was being taken advantage of, guess by who. On the way home from the ball she got stranded the wheel on her carriage broke. As he was passing he helped her out. They ended up in an Inn. When they got home the next day she was called to her father's study. Sullivan was there with his mother and her parents. Someone had seen them at the Inn.
The story was wonderful. The way they bantered back and forth you actually thought they hated each other. But he cared for her but she spent time thinking about him and how great he looked. The characters were charming and delightful. It was important to her, she remains with the League it was the only thing she did by herself and she was proud of it. As she should have been.
I received this ARC from Net Galley and voluntarily reviewed this.

When Tilly's carriage breaks down, Sullivan comes to her rescue. They're practically family, after all—his brother is married to her sister—so surely there can be no impropriety when a rainstorm forces them to spend the night at an inn. Except there's only one room available…and London's most notorious gossip sees them leave it together.

Sullivan is the last man Tilly wants to marry—every word from his mouth infuriates her—but it's the only way to save her reputation. She's even more distressed when, on their wedding day, he forbids her to continue her work with the Ladies of Virtue. Rescuing orphans from a life of crime is the focus of her life, even if it can be dangerous. But Sullivan has his reasons, though he hides them from Tilly. When she learns the truth, can their marriage survive?

The chemistry between Tilly and Sullivan is hot, hot, hot. It's clear they belong together, no matter how much the two of them resist the attraction. The plot is brisk, and the writing sparkles with touches of humor. The steamy scenes are well done and include some light power exchange.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Tilly is the forgettable younger sister. No one notices her when her beautiful sister is around. She's in love with the wrong man. Sullivan is at the wrong place at the wrong time and now it's all going wrong. The story begins.....great story. Can't wait for the next in this series.

I somehow missed that The Virgin and the Viscount is part of an existing series, and I found that that did impact my enjoyment of this one. There were a lot of references to the previous books, so I'd definitely recommend reading those first! I loved Sullivan and enjoyed how unique Matilda was, and you could feel the tension between the two of them. I'm a sucker for a forced proximity situation (there was only one bed!), so that hooked me right away. Still, I came away from this novel feeling that things were left unresolved. The ending came quite abruptly, and the villain was never truly exposed and didn't receive his comeuppance. I did really enjoy reading this though!

3.5/4 stars ⭐️

I was looking to lose myself in a sexy historical romance and The Virgin And The Viscount fit the bill quite nicely. This was my second book by Robyn DeHart and I enjoyed it this enemies to lovers romance. Mathilda is not your typical heroine, she stands out, because of her unique looks and strong personality. Sullivan was sexy and funny and completely besotted by Tilly. Sparks fly as they spar with each other and eventually, they are forced together or are they? I read this entertaining book in one sitting and look forward to reading the other books in the Lord Of Vice series. TBR and Enjoy.

Thanks to NetGalley for a arc copy for a honest review..

The Virgin and the Viscount I love this cover I know how the saying goes don’t judge a book by it’s cover. I’m not a big fan of enemies to lovers, this sure surprised me.. The Virgin and the Viscount has me hooked to the end 5 star read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Lisa

I loved everything about this book. The characters were well crafted, and you were pulling for them throughout the book. The setting and description pulled you in. It was a spicy romance and I liked the heat level. Highly recommend this book. I received a free copy on NetGalley and will look forward to reading more from this author.