Outrageous is the second book in the Rebels of the Ton series by Minerva Spencer. I was excited when I read the premise of this book as Eva had my heart in the first book. She was probably my favorite character in it. While it's not totally necessary to read the first book to read this one (Spencer does a good job of filling in any pertinent information), it will make for a fuller reading experience.

I've broken my thoughts into pros and cons:

Pros
EVA!! (I loved her in the first and was SO excited to see a book that featured her.)Super engaging beginning
The banter between the leads
As in the first book, interesting and fun side characters
Well written and fleshed out characters

Cons
Some of the events seem a bit...outrageous ;)
Some of the characters have very, VERY modern ideals - this could be viewed as neg or pos, depending
I thought some of the traveling bits were a bit long

I found Godric's character interesting in the first book, and I was excited to see how he would be in this one. I would have liked to have seen a more gradual shift. He seemed to regret a lot of what he'd done too quickly - at least to my mind. This didn't bug me too much, but it was something that I would have loved to have seen more of. That being said, I loved seeing his growth. He had been through a lot and he was bound to have some problems. It was great to seem him working through all of his grief.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I loved the interaction between the two leads...and the secondary characters. (I'd love to see some spin offs for Andrew and James!) And, the opening! I started off thinking this was going to be a five star book. Of course, it ended up leveling off - but in a good way. This was great to see since I found the first book had a slow start.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book for review. All thoughts are my own.

This a great story, I loved the characters, the writing is amazing but this book left me a bit disappointed and I cant say why exactly. Its a great book though and this is only my opinion.

I have had the first Rebels of the Ton book on my to-read list, and am usually a stickler for reading series in order. I jumped at the chance to get an ARC of Outrageous though! While you do not necessarily need to read the first book in order to understand this book, reading it prior does probably help with knowing a bit of background about the characters. I will admit during the first two chapters I was at a complete loss for the lack of introduction to the characters, but quickly found my footing after that.
I found the situation of Eva abducting Godric to be highly implausible, but that came to be part of it that I loved. I could not put it down. I feel like the emotions and actions of Eva and Godric towards each other gave me whiplash. Still, despite it all, I found myself rooting for them and their undeniable chemistry for each other. This was a leisurely read and highly entertaining during a time when all of us need happy endings no matter how outrageous the road to them may be.
I will say that if you read the first book beforehand, you will not be lost for the first two chapters. Having now read the first book, I am shocked by the 180 Godric's character takes and find it to be a bit far-fetched after his heinous actions and general repulsive behavior in the first book. I am also shocked that Eva could overlook his actions towards her best friend, beloved step-brother, and herself to be attracted to him. This is the main reason I ended up giving it four stars.
Thank you to Netgalley and Kensington Books for providing an E-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I love Minerva Spencer's books and I looked forward to reading this one. This is Eva's story. Eva is the outrageously behaved daughter of the haughty Marquess of Exley and his first wife, who was mad. Society gossips whisper that Eva's antics are due to her bad blood, but Eva is an independent spirit who does not want to marry but instead to be free to live her own life. I already knew some of Eva's background from Notorious, one of Spencer's earlier books, which is the story Eva's half-brother, Gabriel's marriage to her best friend, Drusilla. Their story ended with a teaser about Eva's story and I could not wait to read it!

This story has many of my favorite tropes: enemies to lovers, kidnapping, bumbling sidekicks, and unrequited love. I enjoyed the characters, the plot, and the drama. Eva is devoted to her family and when she discovers that Godric Fleming, the Earl of Visel, plans to kidnap her sister-in-law, Drusilla, Eva attempts to foil his plot by dressing as a boy and kidnapping him instead. However, the gambit backfires and Eva now is faced with a possible marriage to her enemy because the kidnapping the Earl ends up compromising her instead. There were plenty of plot twists in the story and a few bumpy transitions that left you wondering about the fate of some of the characters in the book. (Maybe their stories will be resolved in future books by Spencer.) Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and it kept me up at night to read "one more chapter."

*3.5 stars*

I adore Minerva Spencer, and I usually rate her books extremely highly, but her Rebels of the Ton offshoot series hasn't exactly been my jam. However, though it took me some time to get into Outrageous, I will say that it grew on me over time.

Where this book falters is the set up and in a few key aspects. First of all, Visel had a total personality change in the beginning of the book, which I found to be completely unbelievable. It helps if you've read Notorious first, but it isn't totally necessary. Nevertheless, you'll get the gist about how the book begins, which makes it just incredible that the author had Visel have some self-awareness all of the sudden. I didn't buy it. Also, the way he treats Eva is nothing short of... creepy. The age gap is very vast, and it skeeved me out how Visel viewed her as a child most of the time. Just, no. It got better as the book went on, but I almost DNFed in the first half.

Honestly, for Minerva Spencer this book wasn't as angsty as it could have been. Usually, this author puts her characters through the ringer, but we get a spitfire of a female MC with a relatively happy upbringing (despite her mother's death and family history of madness), and a male MC with a pretty tragic backstory but it isn't dwelled upon as much as it could have been. I think the angst level was just right for my tastes.

I think I enjoyed the side characters almost as much as the main characters. I'm smelling an M/M romance here, Minerva!!!! There were a lot of complex and interesting personalities to enjoy, and I think it made the second half of the story feel more fleshed out. I was frustrated near the end by a ridiculous self-sacrificing act by one of the MCs, but by that time I was hooked in the story and could barely put it down.

A little inconsistent for Minerva Spencer, but very much worth it in the end. I'm very excited to see where this series goes next.

*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*

The second installment of the series, Rebels of the Ton, was not as compelling as the first one. Even though it was a fun story, with sometimes ridiculous but funny situations, I didn't enjoy the characters as much as in the previous book. I think the chemistry between the MCs was not there and even though, they were interesting individually, together they were rather messy.
On the other hand, they were quite unique so that makes you wanting to keep reading.

I received and ARC of this book from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first book I read by Minerva Spencer and I liked it quite a lot but there were a few issued that kept me from giving it all five stars. The story starts out in a very weird way <spoiler>the heroine kidnaps the hero because he was set to kidnap one of her friends - yeah, didn't make much sense to me either</spoiler> and for half the book it is unclear what on earth they are doing or why - basically they are stuck in a carriage going somewhere. Then the second half of the story goes completely bonkers as it seems the weather and every highwayman, inn keeper and strange young lad wants to get them. I have read this second part in a somewhat ironic key and it worked for me but I suppose it could be annoying for other readers.
The love story itself it ok, there is a lot of chemistry and the sex scenes are hot <spoiler>though I would have preferred that the heroine didn't lie about her experience or at least come clean when they were in the middle of the action sort to speak</spoiler> and there is a bit of groveling at the end on his part which I always enjoy.
All in all a good read with equal parts adventure and love.

I loved this book! It was heartwarming and strong. It was exactly what I needed with everything going on in the world! A happy little escape!

This book starts immediately after the events of the first book. The reason I picked up this book was because I really liked Eva's characterization in book 1. This book was an expansion on the wild and crazy young woman.
I was a bit uncomfortable with the age difference but since it is a book from the olden times, it was easier to digest.
The first book was not that interesting. I could not connect with Drusilla's character and was instead observing Eva's scenes. This book was much better than the 1st.
I really loved the occasionally homages to the author in the book as Minerva Press. :P

It was ok, definitely not one of my favorites of Minerva of mine, but I am noticing that I tend to like her first books and not her second ones. so 2 1./2 big age gap which honestly which grossed me out when he kept calling her child, had he not kept calling her that, it probably wouldn't had bothered me as much.

Eva is outrageous. She wears pants, wants to breed horses, and has a fiery temper that leads her to do impulsive things. She kidnaps Godric. Godric is a man tortured by his past. He is attracted to Eva and in turn hopes to make the best of the situation by marrying Eva. I received an ARC from NetGalley and Kensington Books for my honest review.

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

I did not want to DNF it Outrageous I wanted to give it a chance. I was getting into the story but when it mentioned sex trafficking, I don’t understand how I got through read the book. 2 star for me ⭐️⭐️

This is like Georgette Heyer, only with sex thrown into the mix of romance, humour and emotion, I particularly enjoyed the bit where Godric says he reads Gothic novels published by the Minerva press. In fact I thoroughly enjoyed it, so I am going to give it five stars. Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for giving me an advance copy to read.

Continuing where the first book in the series left off, this is a continuation of the Rebels of the Ton series. I found this to be an improvement on the first book in the series. The heroine was much less milquetoast Drusilla from Notorious. There is a heavy sexual element, but the story is fun and the characters are engaging. It is a quick read. 3.5 Stars.

This book was given to me as an arc from netgalley in return for my honest review.
4.5 stars

Trope is Enemies to Lovers, and
This book is installment #2 to the series Rebels Of The Ton.

I had so much fun with this book! I love it when a book could me laugh out loud. Also If you like age difference than this book is for you. The hero is 17 years older than the heroine. He calls her an infant while she calls him a old man when they argue. It was too funny and cute.

I genuinely enjoyed and loved every moment while reading this book. It was so hard to put the book down and go back to adulting.

Eva De Courtney is not your typical prissy by the book heroine. For her petite stature her attitude makes up for the loss of size. She is loud, strong, fearless, compulsive and speaks her mind. But what I loved most about her is her humor and her compassion to others. Godric Fleming is a grieving war hero out to get revenge on the world. He is super tough, yet is broken man by heart. He loss his wife, child, and immediate family all at once. He knows what he does is wrong but he is angry at the world. He also lives with alot quilt. While embarking on one of his crazy plans he gets kidnapped.

This book starts off with Eva kidnapping Godric. Why? because Eva would do anything to protect the people she loves. She is going to make him pay for all the hurt he's caused. Godric has been nothing but a thorn to her family.

With the help of her friend James, Godric is hit in the head and thrown into their carriage. When finally he comes to, he tries to speak some sense into her about letting him go. But deep down he knew their fate was forever sealed the moment he awoke and laid eyes on her. He would do the honorable thing, marry her, and do right by her. Then James abandons her and the tables are turn, and now he is her captor. He plans to take her to coldstream so they could wed. Somehow along the way the sparks starts flying between the two with really cute banther. Some parts are so sexy as hell!

*she spies and watches the hero giving himself a handjob(he pretends to not know and gives her a show)
*he gives her oral
*lots of teasing/foreplay that leads to hot hot hot sex
*sex in a carriage

Anyways if you read this book, you witness two stubborn beings fall in in love hard. They're both hardheaded and at the end they go there separate ways but after 8 weeks they're completely miserable. It's funny because their friends finally get together and kidnap them both. They throw them both into a carriage so they could get back together and work things out.

I highly recommend this book. It's funny, happy sad, sexy, crazy all in one book. This is the 2nd book that I've read from this author and I will continue to keep reading her work.

I read the first book in the series, and even though both characters were unlikable, I decided to read the second book. It was SO much better! It's still light, fluffy reading, but it was a fine way to spend the afternoon. Eva was childish at times, but overall a fun character.

The author takes us back to the time of balls, gowns and strict societal rules. Neither of the characters are ones that follow any of those rules, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the book starts with a kidnapping. But the author also doesn’t follow the romance rules, so of course it is Godric that is kidnapped by the beautiful Eva. From there the author takes us on a perilous journey to a fantastic end!
Despite the kidnapping the first chapter actually had a slow start. It seemed that the author introduced the characters showing their bad sides first, which didn’t initially encourage me to like them. But after the second chapter things picked up and then became packed full of action, like lots of action! I found that I really liked the characters once more layers were peeled back and we got a better look at their character and what made them tick.
This is a full length story the author doesn’t cut corners! It was full of drama, steam, and characters that were full of passion and some, revenge. I especially liked that the characters supported each other and didn’t let societal rules dictate their lives.
This is a new to me author. I enjoyed her writing, the story and the bits of humor infused. I found it incredibly hilarious that she had her own character reading one of her books in the story! I will definitely look into this author’s other books.

More enjoyable than I was expecting it to be! I thought the premise sounded fun and it was, but then I found Eva a tad annoying (understandable for her age, but still) and Godric ridiculous (but half in a fun way), so I was concerned I would not enjoy the book. As such, I’m pleasantly surprised that this was so amusing. A bit like a madcap Taming if the Shrew is how I’m describing it to friends when I recommend this; a series of mishaps, witty banter, and two very pretty people.

I am thankful for the ARC provided by publisher and author for honest review.This book was fantastic as a historical romance.The characters are portrayed very well.Pacing of story is nice

Beginning with a kidnapping where the female lead takes the male lead for a carriage ride accompanied with a pistol and a plan aiming to protect her brother, Outrageous had me from the start. I enjoyed the characters tremendously, and I thought the story was good too.
While it felt at times the plot took a backseat to the character development (which I do not mind at all, I'm here for the love story), the book wrapped up nicely and I enjoyed the experience.