{"id":26529,"date":"2026-04-04T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:05:44","slug":"once-a-rogue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26529","title":{"rendered":"Once a Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/once-a-rogue-3\"><em>Once a Rogue<\/em><\/a> (2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Therin_Allie.php\">Allie Therin<\/a> (Roaring Twenties Magic #2)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Once-a-Rogue.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Once a Rogue\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Once-a-Rogue.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Once-a-Rogue.jpg?w=256&amp;ssl=1 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>Set in 1925 in New York<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTomcat Lodge,\u201d Sebastian read. \u201cI\u2019m not sure people come here to sleep.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot at all.\u201d Wesley eyed it. \u201cIn fact, if I were going to imagine an inn where drunks could stagger from an illicit speakeasy and hire company for the night, it would look just like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIs this a bootlegging thing or a paranormal thing? Are we going to have drinks or are you lot going to strip naked and howl at the moon? Because if you\u2019re planning to take off your clothes, I will clear my schedule.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou prefer the pulps? Picture the garish cover: me, with a large knife and far more muscle. You, clinging to my arm, your clothes strategically ripped. I\u2019m fighting a crocodile, or perhaps an irate bear, and the headline reads The Astounding Lord Fine: A Thrilling Tale of Everyone Fucking Off and Leaving Him Be.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sebastian frowned. \u201cDon\u2019t hurt the bear.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a real bear.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Wesley Collins Viscount Fine, Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Le\u00f3n y Marin-Torres, Mateo De Le\u00f3n, Rory Brodigan, Mr. Arthur J. Kenzie, Jade Robbins, Zhang Jianwei, John Kenzie, Sir Ellery Penfold, Major Charles Langford, Levi Taussig, Walter Hartman, Mr. Alasdair Findlay<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Carina Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a Rogue (2023) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #2) Set in 1925 in New York \u201cTomcat Lodge,\u201d Sebastian read. \u201cI\u2019m not sure people come here to sleep.\u201d \u201cNot at all.\u201d Wesley eyed it. \u201cIn fact, if I were going to imagine an inn where drunks could stagger from an illicit speakeasy and hire company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,27,938,292,2,204,33,207,8,148,41,26,56,16,934],"tags":[403,335,50,544,212,883],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-alternate-history","category-dual-point-of-view","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-supernatural","category-trigger-warnings","tag-addiction","tag-allie-therin","tag-boinking","tag-mm","tag-ptsd","tag-roaring-twenties-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6TT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22179,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22179","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":0},"title":"Once a Rogue","author":"Michelle","date":"August 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Once a Rogue (2023) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic) Set in New York in 1925 I wish I'd been better able to focus, because I love Allie Therin's stories. In fact, I was hoping that the story would allow me to focus on something outside of myself. The failing is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;7\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Once a Rogue","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Once-a-Rogue.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24745,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24745","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":1},"title":"Viscounts &#038; Villainy","author":"Michelle","date":"July 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Viscounts & Villainy (2025) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) November 1925 Sebastian and Wesley are in New York after the events of the previous book, and Sebastian is trying to learn to live without magic. It's not going well. He's a pacifist who has relied upon his magic to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Viscounts & Villainy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26527,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26527","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":2},"title":"Proper Scoundrels","author":"Michelle","date":"April 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Proper Scoundrels (2021) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #1) Set in 1925 in London & Paris \u201cYou\u2019re his spitting image, you know.\u201d Wesley\u2019s brother had been too, all three of them over six feet tall with the same brown hair and gray eyes. Now only Wesley was left, and he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Proper Scoundrels","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Proper_Scoundrels-191x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12928,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12928","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":3},"title":"Spellbound","author":"Michelle","date":"May 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Spellbound (2019) Allie Therin (Magic in Manhattan) Set in New York in 1924. Rory Brodigan works for a woman he calls his aunt, helping assess the authenticity of antiques. But there is no science--only magic--behind his abilities. Arthur Kenzie needs someone who can read the history of objects, and he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Spellbound","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spellbound.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21120,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21120","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":4},"title":"Proper Scoundrels","author":"Michelle","date":"November 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Proper Scoundrels (2021) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic) Set in England in 1925. Me: I really liked this first series that this book is a spin-off of. Obviously I should not read it. (Repeat time and again for author after author) Sebastian de Leon spent the past three years enthralled,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Proper Scoundrels","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Proper_Scoundrels.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26519,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26519","url_meta":{"origin":26529,"position":5},"title":"Spellbound","author":"Michelle","date":"April 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Spellbound (2019) Allie Therin (Magic in Manhattan #1) Set in 1925 in NYC \u201cQuality gin doesn\u2019t run itself from Toronto.\u201d Arthur scoffed. \u201cFifth Avenue deserves rotgut. Half those arseholes call for segregation during the day then have the nerve to slither into Harlem for culture at night. Be nice to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Spellbound","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Spellbound-189x300.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26530,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}