Paige Kujan’s Reviews > Gentle Rogue > Status Update

I think I would have been charmed by the teasing about their age difference if I didn’t dislike James’ super soft ego — like yeah that’s funny but you’re serious, she called you OLD and you’re NOT old you’re in your PRIME LMAO

“‘So you’re a bloody champion of all women kind.’
‘I wouldn’t go that far.’”

God forbid a man be a feminist, Johanna

He’s like… not funny? It might just be me but she’s laughing at jokes that are so droll. I remain uncharmed.

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

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