Series: All for Love, #2
Tropes & Traits: heroine is engaged to someone else; brooding hero
Publication Date: 03.26.19
Genre/Setting: Historical; Victorian; Scotland
Rating: 3 stars
Wealthy American heiress Mercy Rutherford ventures to Scotland to escape her controlling, grasping fiancé, Gregory, and the immovable plan her loving, but overbearing, parents have made for her life. Upon arrival she meets with an accident that leads to a developing friendship of sorts with her family's neighbor Lennox Caitheart, the Earl of Morton. (The blurb has him named Ross, but he was Lennox in my ARC). Mercy soon learns that her Scottish family is horrible and Lennox isn't insane as she first thought, but rather he is a genius, and very lonely, inventor. Despite the feud between their families, Lennox and Mercy develop a tentative friendship that could develop into more, but given the threats of Gregory and his obsession with Mercy, as well as her family's rigid expectations for her future, there may be too many obstacles to overcome in order for them to be together.
In Lennox Ms. Ranney has created a lovely brooding hero, which I'm a huge fan of. Lennox is lonely and reclusive, but is a good man just trying to preserve his family's legacy. He doesn't quite know what to make of the American heiress just learning independence and he challenges her to change her thinking.
Mercy's family was just awful. I kept expecting some sort of redemption or justification there but none ever came; it was rather an anticlimactic ending on that front. I kept expecting someone to stick up for Mercy, but no one ever did except Lennox, which just made him an even better hero. I was frustrated by Mercy's failure to stick up for herself, especially at age 28, even after she'd decided to make changes and started to voice her own opinions; it's like she kept regressing. Despite that, I still liked her and the book overall, especially Lennox as a refreshingly outspoken hero who also showed growth and development.
In Lennox Ms. Ranney has created a lovely brooding hero, which I'm a huge fan of. Lennox is lonely and reclusive, but is a good man just trying to preserve his family's legacy. He doesn't quite know what to make of the American heiress just learning independence and he challenges her to change her thinking.
Mercy's family was just awful. I kept expecting some sort of redemption or justification there but none ever came; it was rather an anticlimactic ending on that front. I kept expecting someone to stick up for Mercy, but no one ever did except Lennox, which just made him an even better hero. I was frustrated by Mercy's failure to stick up for herself, especially at age 28, even after she'd decided to make changes and started to voice her own opinions; it's like she kept regressing. Despite that, I still liked her and the book overall, especially Lennox as a refreshingly outspoken hero who also showed growth and development.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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