Miss Lillian “Lily” Hargrove, is the orphaned daughter of a land steward and unwilling ward to the Duke of Warnick. Due to an odd and unbelievable series of events, her guardian, and then the next seventeen heirs to the title die in the course of about a fortnight, leaving a very distant claimant to the title, Alec Stuart, a belligerent Scotsman as the new Duke. He doesn’t like England, and stays in Scotland for the next five years, not even aware that Lillian exists. As […]
Between okay and dumpster fire…
Oh, Ms. MacLean. Sometimes I really enjoy your books. Mostly I like ‘em. And then sometimes I want to burn them to the ground. This one falls between liking and burning in a back alley trash can so it won’t be the most positive review. This is the story of Lillian Hargrove, ward of the Duke of Warnick, and Alec, said duke. Alec learns of Lillian’s existence as his ward when his solicitor writes to tell him of the scandal she’s caused. Lillian was spending […]
“It’s horrid to be someone else’s vision of yourself.”
4.5 stars I am very sorry, Sarah MacLean. This is probably my favorite book of yours that I have read so far, but I waited way too long to review it, and now I’m going to have precious little to say about it. Here’s the Goodreads summary, which is as much for my benefit as yours: “A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at […]
A jam packed romance
To round out my Sarah MacLean reading (until her latest one is published at the end of the month) I started up her newest series Scandals and Scoundrels. The first in the series starts with a tertiary character from her last book (Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover), so it appears that continuing to go in order with her books is the right choice. This time we have Sophie, the least scandalous sister in a family of scandals, and King (real name Aloysius!), the […]