5/13/2023 0 Comments The rakess by scarlett peckham![]() In The Rakess, we meet Seraphina Arden, whose character borrows from both rake and ruined woman tropes. She must therefore either be rescued by a man willing to save her honor, or strike out in defiance on her own.” ![]() She is no longer marriageable, but she has been raised to only be marriageable. ![]() But regardless, it has colored the world’s understanding of her character and value. Perhaps she has had a lover, or perhaps there have only been whispers of one. She contrasts a male rake with the female equivalent, the ruined woman. And so devoted to practicing these amorous skills that you sometimes worry for his health”. ![]() So good at sex it is like he studied it at University. He’s the bone-meltingly handsome dissolute second son of a marquess or an earl. Peckham tells us that she has devoured historical romance novels since she was a child, and most of them revolved around a rake. ![]()
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