About the book:
Love Is Sweetest When It’s Unexpected
Nell Anslowe and Julian, Earl of Wyndham, are an unlikely couple in every respect. Injured in a riding accident ten years ago, Nell was left with a fiancé who abandoned their engagement, a slight limp, terrifying nightmares, and the firm belief that she will never marry. The abrupt end of Julian’s unhappy marriage formed his resolve to remain a bachelor until the end of his days. But as Julian chases down his reckless stepsister, he seeks shelter from a summer storm in a cottage—and finds it occupied by Nell, who has escaped from a fortune-seeking libertine bent on carrying her off to Gretna Green. Discovered together by Nell’s family, the couple’s hasty wedding is the only way to save Nell from scandal—but the polite union each of them expects blossoms into something much more powerful…
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I adore Regency romances. I have for years and Shirlee Busbee books were amongst my very first reads, years ago. I have missed her rich, detailed ladened voice in recent years. I will pull out a few old friends when I yearn for paragraphs longer than two very non-descriptive sentences for solace, that at one time, writing was a high art form.
That being said, this was a good book. Not a great book, in my opinion. The story had me from the beginning but about a 1/3 of the way into the book I felt like the plot simply wasn't vibrant enough to command 362 pages of book. I just couldn't believe that our hero, Julian, would strong-arm Nell into a semi-rape/seduction scene. Didn't set well with me.
Prepare to have an interesting twist in the plot that well, everyone can see coming a mile away.
Grade: B-
Sandie
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