Series: Seductive Scoundrels, #12
Traits & Tropes: titled hero; class difference
Publication Date: 03.16.21
Genre/Setting: Historical; Regency; London, England, 1818
Heat Level: 2
Rating: 3.5/5
Celestia Tolman is convinced the Earl of Keyworth is responsible for the decline in patronage at her family’s shop. She blames him for damaging her father’s career as a scrivener and is determined to take the arrogant nobleman to task. She just has to ignore her inconvenient attraction to the man.
Landry Audsley, the Earl of Keyworth, is always looking for ways to help those less fortunate, but he has no such benevolence for liars or thieves, both of which he suspects Celestia to be when she sneaks into his home. He has no intention of risking his reputation with an incompetent scribe, but he finds himself drawn to Celestia despite his best intentions and knows he must do what he can to help her.
As they spend more time together with Landry dictating speeches and Celestia transcribing, they forge a tentative bond. But their connection is soon threatened by a scandal it may not be strong enough to withstand.
This was a quick, enjoyable read and I loved the atypical circumstances which brought this hero and heroine together. Landry was really too good to be true as a hero and it was impossible not to like him. Celestia took some warming up to because of her judgmental assuredness in her own veracity. Thankfully, she was able to recognize and admit when she was wrong, and this redeemed her for me. I appreciated the quick, decisive resolution of things between these two and how Landry helped Celestia learn to rely on others instead of taking everything upon her own shoulders. I do wish we had gotten more scenes of them forging that bond together rather than most of that development occurring behind the scenes. Along this same vein, the storyline of Landry’s missing sister was just a loose thread woven in and left hanging so I’m hoping this will be expounded upon in future books because it promised to be an intriguing circumstance but felt a bit random here. Overall, this was a fast-reading, charming story, I just wanted more time spent between the hero and heroine bonding on the page.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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