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Never Judge a Lady By Her Cover by Sarah MacLean is the final book in the Rules of Scoundrels series, so beware of series spoilers! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I was shocked — SHOCKED I TELL YOU — when Chase’s identity was revealed at the end of book three and I didn’t know how this book would come together, but it did! It is also my least favorite of the series (I liked it, but I loved the first three). I found parts of this story to be repetitive and slow, particularly as a reader who knows these characters from previous books. Still, it was fantastic to see Georgianna, who is forever meddling, Emma-style, in the love lives of her friends, have to experience the ups and downs of finding love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Georgianna is determined to renter the world that rejected her in order to give her daughter Caroline a life of security and respectability; but she’ll have to be careful not to reveal where (and who) she’s been since she’s been away. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Duncan is the perfect person to unmask Georgianna on so many levels. I love the trope where a person helps someone they have feelings for to get with someone else, and this was no exception. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It felt right to end the series with this book, and my favorite moment was reading the acknowledgments, where MacLean apologizes to the reader she lied to before the writing of this book when asked if Chase was a woman! 🤣 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ CW: sexual content ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID1: The first two books in the Rules of Scoundrels series are standing spine out. The fourth is facing out. You can see the chair back of the chair the books are stacked on, and my crutches leaning by a door in the background. ID2: The step back of Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/Cd0jDr9LJlf/