This book caught my eye the very first time I set eyes on the sumptuously gorgeous cover! This is the story of Matthew Lord Wallingford, now for those of you that read Addicted you will recognize Matthew as he was Raeburn's best friend and featured in it. I did not read addicted before this one but I found that it read just fine as a stand alone.

Matthew the dark and mysterious Earl of Wallingford is quite the Rake and womanizer and let’s just say he’s the BAD boy times about 10, but when he is robbed and left in an alley blooded and beaten he is not ready for the tenderness that he finds at the hands of the nurse that tends him and brings him back to health and life in more ways than one. Jane Rankin is an independent and strong minded woman she thinks that she is content with her life as a lady’s companion and a nurse at the hospital by night. She knows that she is no beauty and is considered by society as being plain behind her serviceable dresses, her spectacles and her hair done up in a severe bun most of the time. But Jane does dream of some day finding love. She never thought she would find it in the devastatingly handsome patient that is brought in to her ward bleeding and incoherent. Knowing him only as Matthew she has no idea of his true identity, and he cannot see her as his head wound and a bad laceration over his eye forces him to wear a bandage over his eyes. However Jane’s gentle and soothing touch and her soft angelic voice call to Matthew in a way that no other woman’s ever has. His tortured and tormented spirit is soothed by this angel of mercy and he longs to draw her closer and let her be a balm to both is body and his soul. However can the attraction and desire that begins to build between the two last when their true identities are known and they are able to see each other for who they truly are ?

I won’t go into more detail as if I did I would surely give away something in this complex, haunting, and passionate story.

Now this is one book that had me wrestling with myself back and forth as to what I truly felt for it. At times it made my heart soar and at others I truly almost loathed Wallingford. He is truly a very tortured and traumatized soul however he is also callus and cold in the extreme in several parts of the book that had me wanting to see Jane slap the arrogance from his face rather than kiss him. Ms. Featherstone has made a VERY complex story in Sinful. The story has many layers as does its main characters. Both Jane and Matthew have their dark secrets and pasts that overshadow them and I did love how they each were able to find peace and redemption in the other.

That being said though I will say that I thought that some aspects of the book didn’t quite live up to the way I wanted to see the ending for Jane and Matthew. Now I got to read this book via an ARC from NetGalley and the author states on the last page that the epilogue the true happily ever after scene it seems will be posted on the Internet on her site on May the 2nd and maybe that will tie up some of the ends that I thought should have been addressed and put to rest....... however still something just didn’t sit right with me about the ending so far, but not sure about that as there were aspects of Jane’s character that she gave up and changed to be with Matthew much more so than he did for her. I can't go into as much detail on those views as I would like as again it would involve major spoilers but I would be happy to discuss them with anyone that would like to that has read the book! :)

While I did enjoy the book I have struggled majorly with what to give this one as a rating. I have teetered back and forth and finally have decided to give it a 4 because there are parts that were simply heart wrenching and had me clinging to the pages and other times that had me breathless, but I would have liked to have seen Wallingford address several aspects very differently than he did. There was one time I dearly wanted to throttle the arrogant jerk myself lol. Even though he was a tortured hero that was no excuse for some of the things he did and said to Jane I thought. Still it was a very good book and had me riveted to see what would happen so I give it a solid four hearts, but can't give it above a four because to be truthful Jane deserved better than she got in many ways by the end in my humble opinion. I do look forward to reading more of Ms. Featherstone’s novels she certainly has a strong and passionate voice. I hope to see more of that in her future novels.

This book was provided to me via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.