Suzanne Enoch has a way with words; a unique way of molding, shaping, and writing characters so fresh so real that you feel as if you actually know them -- as if you have been swept back into time and are just standing there watching their lives unfold before your very eyes! I have loved Enoch's characterization in every book of hers I have read and TAMING AN IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE definitely did not change that opinion. From the first page I felt sucked in and began learning her hero -- who quite quickly became my hero.

I loved the storyline of this book, as one of the Scandalous Bride series I knew that I would be in for a treat, but I had no idea that this one would rise to be my favorite of all her books. I expected a scandal, but that was just it I expected A scandal. Instead I got the scandal before the scandal before the ultimate scandal!

The heroine, Camille could not seem to get anything quite right! She almost seemed to snub society repeatedly throughout the story every step she took, even if it was right, seemed to be wrong in the eyes of society. Camille's troubles were one of the things that allowed me to open up to her, the fact that she was not just another young miss looking for a husband, or a third year debutante struggling to stay off the shelf, or a duke's daughter who just wants love. Oh no, Camille jilted her intended -- scandal one, was disowned and forced to take shelter at the Tantalus gentleman's club -- scandal two, and now she finds herself falling in love with the man who was paid to fetch her back to the jilted fiancé -- the beginnings of possible scandal three!

Did I mention that I love love love the hero of TAMING AN IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE? He has an excellent backstory making him that wonderful blend of not so perfect, not so bad that just seems to hit the heart. Keating Blackwood was written as a man with his own problems...a past scandal that left him a both a murderer and a father to a child he doesn't know, a lack of money to support both the widow and their son, and tender spot in his heart for yet another damsel that clearly needs his help to survive.

The fact that Keating starts out with honorable intentions simply to help Camille and that Enoch allows this relationship to bloom into something far deeper made the story that much more impacting. Had they simply fallen in love I do not think that either character would have appeared as strong nor feel as vulnerable as they did when they realized friendship had turned into something more.

I really enjoyed the fact that typical everyday struggles, sacrifices, and familial pressures were so much a part of this book. Here is one more way that Enoch's characters have that lifelike quality that I have come to know and love. Enoch's secondary characters were written just as colorfully as the primaries. I really enjoyed Camille's friends at the Tantalus Club and the additional benefit of Keating's mysterious friend the Duke...well let's just say I am impatiently waiting for that story to be written.