The tall, flaxen-haired lord brought colour to Victoria’s cheeks — not to men­tion a flut­ter to her pulse. He was so hand­some. What girl would not blush? And he was flirt­ing with her!

Lady Vic­to­ria Arbuth­not has always done exactly what she wants. So she’s delighted when she bags drop-dead gor­geous Lord Mal­frey before she’s even got off the boat from India. But then a dash­ing young sea-captain starts spread­ing sto­ries about her man. Could it be that Vicky’s happy-ever-after with Lord M. might not be so happy after all?

Have I men­tioned how much I love Meg Cabot?

Love. As in, I-have-read-almost-every-single-book-of-hers-many-many-times and I always want more.

Vic­to­ria and the Rogue is one of my top favourites among hers because, unusu­ally for Meg Cabot, it’s a period set­ting — fun and flirt­ing in the 19th Cen­tury? Yes please.

Vic­to­ria is a sassy, inde­pen­dent hero­ine with an endear­ing bossy streak. Prac­ti­cal to the core, she has no time for female swoon­ing fits, or day-dreaming about hand­some men. Victoria’s mis­sion in life is to help peo­ple with her sound (if often  unwanted) advice. I just had to laugh at how Vic­to­ria went around re-organising everyone’s life (for the bet­ter of course) so sub­tly that no one even notices. Vic­to­ria can­not help help­ing peo­ple and I was amused that her bossi­ness had caused her rather alarmed bach­e­lor Uncles to ship her of to another coun­try for some peace.

There are lots of delight­ful moments in this book — I espe­cially enjoyed the sis­terly rela­tion­ship that devel­oped between Vic­to­ria and her cousin Rebecca, and Jacob Carstairs!

I’ll let you dis­cover Jacob Carstairs for your­selves, but I will say I don’t blame the poor girl find­ing her­self all hot and both­ered and tongue-tied around him once he turns on the charm.

You don’t really need me to sell a Meg Cabot book to you do you? There’s romance, balls, gowns, scan­dal, a hand­some rogue and even a spot of kid­nap­ping. What more could a girl want?