![]() ![]() She’s a thief and pickpocket, and like all the members of the gang, lives in fear of its brutal leader, Satin. Marlowe is a member of the Covent Garden Cubs, one of the many gangs of thieves who inhabit the rookeries in the Seven Dials area of London. It’s an enjoyable and well-written story that has more depth than its overly-cutesy song-title appellation might suggest. ![]() ![]() The book is a kind of mix of Cinderella and Pygmalion, as our Eliza – in this case, a street-urchin by the name of Marlowe – gets to see how the other half lives after she is abducted by the investigator hired to trace the whereabouts of a girl who went missing some fifteen years earlier. I’ve since listened to her a few more times, and as I’d enjoyed both story and performance in Rogue, I decided to back-track and pick up its predecessor, Earls Just Want to Have Fun. Crick only one other time and had been sufficiently impressed by her performance to want to listen to her again. ![]() At that point, I’d heard narrator Beverley A. A few months back, I listened to and reviewed The Rogue You Know, the second book in Shana Galen’s Covent Garden Cubs series. ![]()
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