I enjoyed this book the most out of the three in the series. Ramsey was my favourite character throughout and I was glad to see his past and for him to learn to relax more. The only real issue I had with this book was that it dragged out at the end.
I didn't feel there was any need for the wedding etc. to be written and would have been happy with an epilogue after the proposal was confirmed.
I was, however, thrilled with Grace's character. I was worried that being the main character would take away some of her charm from the previous book but, if anything, I loved her more in this book than I did before!

3.5 stars

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review

While I did enjoy the characters, the pacing was so slow and the story dragged most of the time. I actually really struggled In the second half of the book, but I was so close to the end that I just pushed myself to finish it. It was a promising and seemingly really fun premise, but it just wasn’t executed well.

A unique, poignant story of how feeling inept can grow from two different sources. Grace is a young but mature debutante. She grew up with two loving parents and traveled the world. She learned to respect different people and cultures. However, when it came to training to be a lady, she had two left hands and two left feet. It seemed inevitable that she would in dubiously cause some sort of embarrassing commotion. She felt like an utter failure. Luckily, she had the loving support of her former governess and friend Samantha who was now lovingly married to her guardian, Viscount Heathcliff Kilpatrick. The Viscount had two business partners in London where they ran a most successful gambling hell called Temptations. One of the partners was Lord Lucas Heightfield. The other was Ramsey Scott, Marquess of Sterling. He had a dark history. He grew up with a cruel father who set impossible standards of perfection for him. When he failed, he would be beaten bloody and told over and over again what a failure and disappointment he was and that he would always be that way. (His father was a sick b@stard as far as I am concerned.) The trio met at Eton and became fast and forever friends. Ramsey had a strict reputation. No scandal, honor overall and he did not trust women. His first marriage was a full blooming disastrous scandal. Which his father never forgave him for. When Kilpatrick introduced him to Grace, he wanted nothing to do with her. While in her presence he had never laughed so much. He enjoyed her dry wit and she was knowledgeable on many subjects. She was well educated and traveled. She delighted him. She screamed DANGER to him and he decided to stay away. But his loyalty to his friend did not stop him from attending her turn out in society. During the ball Grace managed to upset a dowager. He watched as she meekly followed Samantha walk away. As he studied her, he knew what she must have been thinking and feeling. For he too suffered from the same condemnation. He pulled her aside and gave her a most needed pep talk. Her evening turned around for the better. There were two subplots: one was Samantha's father, Duke of Chatterwood and the other was a neighbor of Ramsey's country home Julian Lambton, Sixth Earl of Westhouse. The Duke's story never made any headway in the book and Westhouse's story did not fit quite right. I could see the relevance of his story, but it just did not sit right with me. I feel some tweaking to his story is needed. The main plot was the budding romance between Grace and Ramsey. I loved how the author unfolded this part of the story and how they each begin to accept that they may be imperfect but that was ok. No one was perfect. But in love there was someone out there perfect for them. It was pure enjoyment reading this book and I do recommend it. I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.

The Gentleman of Temptation trilogy follows three noblemen that, of course, own a gambling hell and the women who steal their hearts. This is the third offering and we get to see the trope where the dude who falls in love with his buddy's ward, a lady who has traveled the world but is way out of her element with the fancy ways of the ton. I enjoyed the read and look forward to more by Vayden.

I absolutely loved this book. Kristin Vayden is one of my favorite historical authors for a reason. Her characters are smart, witty, and the banter is perfection. I can't rave about this book enough.

If you love a slow burn romance, then you’ll love this story! I hadn’t read the two previous books and still enjoyed reading this one. Historical romance is not my usual genre, but Miss Vayden writes it well. I found I could barely put the book down. Lord Sterling (Ramsey) is tall, dark, and yummy. He’s also a control freak and definitely not interested in his friend Heathcliff’s ward... is he? Miss Iris Grace Morgan is mostly a genteel lady, but she has a quick wit, a mind of her own, and a stubborn streak. When Heathcliff enlists Ramsey’s help to keep a unwanted rogue from pursuing Grace, little does he know Ramsey and Grace will spar in more ways than one! The kiss is definitely epic! I loved this book! It was a refreshing change of pace for me. 5 stars!

This is the third in the series about three Regency lords who manage a club called Temptations and how they find their loves, this one featuring Ramsay, Marquess of Sterling, the most strait-laced of the three, and Grace, the ward of one of the other two. Although both characters were introduced in previous books, this can be read as a standalone.

Grace is unconventional in that she’s been educated and she is well traveled, having been to India and Egypt,among other places, with her parents before they passed. One thing she is not, is graceful, but Ramsay sees that as a charming personality quirk rather than a flaw. He’s not the only one with his sights on Grace, though, and I found it rather refreshing to have a genuine rival in the picture for the heroine’s affections, though the outcome was something of a foregone conclusion.

One thing that always frustrates me when there’s a ‘bad guy’ in the picture in historical romances is that the heroes always fail to just TELL the heroine why the bad guy is a problem. “He preys on his female servants” might be a touch shocking to the sensibilities, but it’s a lot less of a shock than the lady in question might get if she ended up alone with the cad. Better forewarned than blindly ignorant, appears to be a mindset which occurs to none of these men. Grace was the furthest thing from stupid and uneducated, and obviously not all that shockable, so Ramsay and Heathcliff’s decision to keep her in the dark was infantilizing in the extreme. I’d have called them on it, and it was disappointing that Grace didn’t get the chance to do that.

Ramsay and Grace were very well-suited and apart from the above-mentioned issue, there was always great communication between the two. I’ll give this one four stars.

The Temptation of Grace kept my attention throughout. I enjoy stories where the debutante isn't a shy, innocent miss, but a spunky young lady with a mind of her own. Even rogues can't resist them.

*2.5 stars*

I really wanted to love The Temptation of Grace, but it took me forever to get through, and with so much excellent historical romance out there, it didn't stand out.

I read this story as a stand-alone, so perhaps something was lost in not reading the first two in the series. I felt like I was able to follow along easily, but I still didn't ever fully get into the story.

I particularly don't like the clumsy-female cliche, that is SO overdone in romance (especially YA romance). It's at the point that I start rolling my eyes when we get another hapless female MC that literally stumbles into trouble.

Ramsey was a more interesting main character than Grace, but I still couldn't get past the slow pace and the fact that I felt the the story was, well, just boring. Not sure why I kept feeling that way, but it made it hard to finish.

Sometimes story mesh well with me, and sometimes they don't. There was nothing particularly wrong with this one, but there are some excellent, new historical romances out there and this one didn't stand up against them.

Unfortunately, I could not get into this book at all. I think it would have been a bonus to have read the first two books in the series, as there is little character work done in the beginning of the book and I felt that the reader was expected to know and like the characters already, which made it hard to connect with them. I thought that the writing was bland and often laborious, with people’s every movement described without any vividness or emotion - this kind of ‘he did this and then he did this so she did that’ is very boring to read. Ramsey’s sections were, from the start, loaded with unnecessarily heavy musings on shame and misery, which failed to set an engaging tone and made it hard to like him. Add to that errors in the forms of address and other inaccuracies in the historical elements, and this just wasn’t a book I could finish.

Very well written story, characters were great together. Loved following Ramsey and Grace finding their way through their relationship to find the HEA.

The Temptation of Grace has all the elements of a successful Regency Romance - a sassy heroine, a jaded world-weary lord - presented in a crisp well-written novel. No giant surprises, but nicely executed. Recommend.
I provided this honest review in exchange for a free advance reader's copy.

This was a fairly simple romance, the conclusion of a series of three about the owners of Temptations. I had not read the previous two volumes, but based on the way the stories intertwined in this one, I suspect that they are of a similar vein. Overall though the strength of this story is less in the plot points and more in the dialogue. Grace, the heroine, is fun and witty (if plagued by a YA-like clumsiness cliche.) In many ways the factors that interfere with the progression of the romance are too easily dispatched with but the story was fun overall and I enjoyed it.

This is the third book in the Gentleman of Temptation series. I have not read the first two books but I wish I had. There are a lot of mentions of things that happened in the previous books and I was trying to put it all together while reading. The story was very nice and quite tame. I really enjoyed the main characters. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

This is a cute regency romance. If you want some bland entertainment with a bit if old fashioned romance, this is the perfect book. I had to struggle to finish it.

The Temptation of Grace is an enchanting, slow burn romance. I loved how fiesty Grace was. She was so much fun to read about. She didn't hold back any of her thoughts and she gave just as good as she got. Of course this has to make her more attractive to Ramsey, doesn't it? Well, at least once he admits it to himself and gets over all his hangups on proper behavior ;)

This is a nice way to conclude this series. As expected, this tied up the storylines neatly; all three friends are married to women who are somehow connected. For the heroine of The Temptation of Grace, I like that Grace was open to love and trusted in her own instincts, even though she wasn’t always right. As soon as something didn’t look quite right, she was aware of it and tried to correct things. I also love that the hero, Ramsey, finally got to find a woman who loves him for who he is and who couldn’t care less about perfection or honorability.

It’s a pleasant read. I enjoyed it!

I received an ARC of this book, from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for a fair and honest review.

❤️❤️ out of 5
This book was just boring, If I’m trying that hard to think if anything happened in this book and coming up blank then yes it’s definitely boring. I almost gave up reading at several points because I was so bored and I’m not entirely sure why I finished it.
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Our heroine is making her come out under the supervision of her guardian. She’s new to London and although her name is Grace, in action she’s the opposite of her name. She trips and stumbles and is a little too outspoken for the Ton. However it is these qualities that endear her to her guardian’s best friend.
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One of my frustrations other than the completely boring plot is the fact that even though there is about 8 years difference between the hero and heroine, everyone treats her like there is a 20 year age difference and she is a child, which also makes it really hard to think of her as an adult. I liked most of the story told from her POV and where you got to see her talk but overall it was just a big meh and I skimmed the ending 😱 (which is the one place I’m least likely to skim).

Miss Iris Grace Morgan hates her first name so when she comes to London to make her debut she decides to be called Grace even though graceful is the last thing this lovely but clumsy young lady is.

Dogged by gossip and scandal, Ramsey Scott, Marquess of Sterling, is the last man who should stand guard over lovely Miss Grace Morgan, much less fall for her.
Grace should never have come to Ramsey's office unattended. But how else was Grace to get his romantic attention?

This is the first book I have read by this author but I hope it's not the last. I will certainly be on the lookout for other books by this new to me author. This story was a real page turner filled with laughter, unwanted love (at least by our hero) and a touch of danger from unwanted attentions from a man we shall call the villain in this story.
I gave this book 4.75 of 5.0 stars for storyline, plot and characterization.
Even though this is book #3 in this series and there are characters that tie these books together this one reads well as a standalone.
I received a complimentary ARC of this book to read. This in no way affected my opinion of this title which I read and reviewed voluntarily.

I have to admit this book was my very first from Kristin Vayden's pen and I loved every single second of it. 

Temptation of Grace was masterfully written historical romance which haven't missed out on anything. There was everything you need in a great book. Fear, blame, struggle but also attraction, falling in love and lust. 

The main character Miss Grace is very intelligent, witty but quite clumsy person thinking not to be ladylike enough for her first debut year. While her guardian seeks for eligible husband for her one of his best friends should not be liking her the way he does. After the scandal around his first marriage Ramsey Sterling surely doesn't want to marry again but when the lovely Miss Grace has been slowly slipping out of his hands he knows he should take his chance.

I was also delighted to get to know all the co-characters.