Series: Sins for All Seasons, #4
Traits & Tropes: illegitimate hero; widowed heroine
Genre/Setting: Historical; Victorian; London, England
Publication Date: 08.20.19
Rating: 4 stars!
| Aiden Trewlove understands women; it's part of his business of introducing them to vice at his club, The Elysium. But he never personally interacts with his guests. Until one masked woman catches his attention. She asks for forbidden moments with him and soon has him breaking all his own rules. Selena Sheffield, the newly widowed Duchess of Lushing, is desperate. Her husband's untimely death without issue, though he left her well provided-for, means the crown will receive all his estates and Selena will lose all the power and influence of her position, influence she needs to ensure her three younger sisters are well-married. She just needs Aiden to unwittingly provide her with a child. She never counted on his determination to be nothing like his disreputable father, therefore ensuring he fathers no children out of wedlock. As Selena's feelings for Aiden develop into something more serious, she is torn between using him to achieve her goals and following her heart to truly be with him out in the open. I just had a difficult time getting into this book. Sure I could sympathize with Selena, but her snobbery, as well as that of her sisters, made her very unlikable for me. Poor Aiden has striven his entire life to overcome his illegitimacy and when he finally encounters a woman who stirs his feelings, she makes it clear that he's not good enough to have a public future with her and that any interactions between them must be clandestine. I thought Aiden deserved better. That said, I do understand her reasoning to a point, to protect the child they may have together, but even then, she still held and voiced awful prejudices and judgments against Aiden's family for being illegitimate. Selena never seemed to truly grasp the depth of what she was asking of Aiden. All that said, Selena and Aiden both did a lot of growing and ultimately chose each other over everything else, which I always think is beautiful, and this became a lovely love story. I'll be after the rest of the series now. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. |
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