This is a Victorian marriage of convenience story. With a description like that I was willing to try a new author. Victoria is an American heiress who has been raised to try and marry in to the British aristocracy. She has no expectations of a love match and all she really wants is the freedom from her parents that a marriage will bring. Andrew is the second son of an impoverished duke whose older brother has recently died. Victoria’s father basically wins Andrew in a […]
The madness of me, reading this book
2.5 stars This book tried my patience. I started off loving it — I liked that the heroine was an independent, wealthy widow who had loved her husband and had a seemingly healthy relationship with sex. I was intrigued by the hero, who has savant tendencies and is on the spectrum. I bought their initial attraction. Everything was going just fine. And then the plot happened. Like, omg, so much plot. There is a murder, that is connected to another murder, and the hero is […]
Better Than the Last, I’ll Still Read the Next One
Marrying Winterbourne is the second book in the current Lisa Kleypas historical romance Ravenel series, and, while it is better than its predecessor, Cold-Hearted Rake, it still not up to the standard of her classics or even her stronger books. Spending insufficient time with the love story, though plenty with the smolder, it started with a wallflower and a rake, Kleypas’s forte, and swiftly landed in Big Misunderstanding territory – which experienced romance readers will tell you means the leads’ problems could be solved with one honest […]
When I ignored my strongest feelings out of a misguided obligation to fairness, I had no feelings left
1.5 stars When I first started this book, I saw its potential: a marriage had fallen apart, ostensibly due to a wife’s coldness, while she herself seemed tortured by genuine love for her husband that she locked away inside herself for fear it was unrequited. Excited to learn the source of this inconsistency, and intrigued by the result of the marriage’s annulment — the wife takes up a series of international posts as a surgeon — I looked forward to unraveling the story. There will […]