Rake's Progress

While this particular series is overall weak, this particular book is absolutely brilliant! It's easily Chesney's best book ever. The only ones to rival it are Marrying Harriet in the School for Manners series and Lady Fortescue Steps Out in the Poor Relations series. Love it, and keep re-reading it. Also, it's seriously hot.

in this forth installment in Chesney's "A House For The Season" series we have a gentlemen who lets the house at 67 Clarges Street. Lord Guy-recently invalided from the Napoleonic war, and unknowingly suffering what we now know as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has come to London to hide his problems in drunkenness and womanizing. I applaud Chesney for writing Lord Guy as a TRUE rake, who involves himself in several wild (and hilarious) debauches early on in the book, and unfortunately in front of the prim, and also dysfunctional, spinster Miss Esther Jones. Esther carries around different scars herself-emotional scars from a childhood watching her own hedonistic father destroy her family with his immoral ways. Luckily-Guy is in reality not like that, but try convincing prim Ester of that! So again it's the servants of 67 Clarges to the rescue-with laugh out loud funny and adventuresome results. I thought this was the best of this series so far. Don't miss out on this candid, funny and realistic view of the "underbelly" of the ton. 5 stars!