Status Updates From Gentle Rogue (Malory Family...

When Mary skinner says we are reading Fabio novels in 2026 we do it

Begone, Malory! If I ever see you again it will be too soon.

James’s brother is so much more tolerable than him. How did James become the complete ass of the family like that?

Yeah something terrible needs to happen to James, if just to give him a little perspective

Less than a hundred pages more of James Malory….

Wish I could stop here and pretend that her brothers finally did him in

James Malory could be placed in the bottom most pit of hell, and it would not be punishment enough. He comes in here deliberately making a scene to embarrass Georgina, then gives the “She was comprised before I ever laid hands on her” line, saying she was acting the whore when she was just trying to make it through situations that **HE** put her in! I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him stone-dead.

The dress from the cover has made her appearance. Now to see if the scene from the cover happens as well.

I need to keep my phone with me when I read this book because every other page pisses me off and I need to let Goodreads know.

Hate hate hate when a woman is pregnant and the fetus only gets described as the man’s baby. Like she’s somehow just a vessel for his seed 🤢

Does James ever actually have any duties to perform? Or can he just do whatever all day? Get a job….

I despise this James fellow, but I did enjoy the line “what’s a little bare arse between men”. So true. A little bare arse between men never hurt anybody.

Okay! We got our first euphemism, and it’s…..old John Henry? Was not on my list.

No, I think making your Cabin Boy wash your back when it’s clear he’s uncomfortable would be wrong even if he did truly think Georgie was a boy. I’m reporting Captain Malory to HR.

Okay yeah we’re working with the worst of them

Maybe I hate Englishmen, too (went back to Mallory’s pov)

I’m trying really hard not to think about the middle aged rough, gorgeous Scottish man while she’s all upset about Malcolm…

James talking about his family is so funny to me, idk why, he’s just complimenting everyone so naively — “they’re all hot and awesome and talented don’t worry!”

“And James might have just turned thirty-six, but there wasn’t a woman alive who could entice him into the matrimonial state. Love them and leave them was the only way to get along with them…” okay girl yeah. Lucky for him, I have the capacity to love a hateable man

Desperately doing the math on her age: he said her brothers would not have let her get married at eighteen and she’s waited four years for him — so if I’m being optimistic, she was seventeen when he left for war or whatever, and two years he’d been asking to marry her — fifteen. That’s not unheard of, I guess… but 17+4=21 okay okay she may be 21. Maybe… this is integral to my reading experience

“Women had simply become too obtainable” what a lovely sentiment, Mr. Malory. What a charmer…..

Read literally one more line and she’s apparently a “small twelve”. She is in her 20s and she’s smaller than a 12 year old?! That manhood of his better be suitably small or she’s going to die.

Am I really supposed to believe that this full grown woman can convincingly pass as a 12 year old boy? She was even saying she could pass for 9 a few chapters ago. Is she truly so petite and tiny? So itty bitty? Or are little boys just massive in this world?

I do not like this James Malory fellow