Series: That Wicked O'Shea Family, #2
Traits & Tropes: enemies to lovers
Publication Date: 03.19.21
Genre/Setting: Historical; Victorian; Northern Ireland, 1888
Heat Level: 3
Rating: 3.5/5
Lady Colleen O’Shea despises the arrogant, vexingly handsome Lord Benedict, Marquess of Boleran. She can’t stand being near him for long and has no intention of falling into her brother’s marriage trap with the man.
Benedict sees how impulsive and foolhardy Colleen can be and knows she’s not exactly marchioness material, but he still can’t stop thinking about her.
When Colleen’s insatiable curiosity leads to her spending the night at Benedict’s estate, unchaperoned, their marriage becomes necessary to ward off scandal. Nevertheless, Colleen is sure she can find a way to avoid the unwanted marriage, even if she is beginning to warm to the idea of Benedict as a husband.
This book was something else. It’s definitely an enemies to lovers romp with one of the most air-headed heroines I’ve ever read. The hero had done nothing I could find to warrant her loathing and ill-treatment of him. She merely started arguments with him because she’d made being argumentative for the sake of it part of her character as others saw her. She did at least realize when she’d taken her slander too far but that didn’t stop her from rushing right back up to that line later on. I couldn’t like her, even when she realized her feelings for Benedict were of love rather than hate. She was a bit too over the top for me and the poor hero either had the patience of a saint or was an utter fool. Otherwise, this was a pleasant romp to escape reality with.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Lady Colleen O’Shea despises the arrogant, vexingly handsome Lord Benedict, Marquess of Boleran. She can’t stand being near him for long and has no intention of falling into her brother’s marriage trap with the man.
Benedict sees how impulsive and foolhardy Colleen can be and knows she’s not exactly marchioness material, but he still can’t stop thinking about her.
When Colleen’s insatiable curiosity leads to her spending the night at Benedict’s estate, unchaperoned, their marriage becomes necessary to ward off scandal. Nevertheless, Colleen is sure she can find a way to avoid the unwanted marriage, even if she is beginning to warm to the idea of Benedict as a husband.
This book was something else. It’s definitely an enemies to lovers romp with one of the most air-headed heroines I’ve ever read. The hero had done nothing I could find to warrant her loathing and ill-treatment of him. She merely started arguments with him because she’d made being argumentative for the sake of it part of her character as others saw her. She did at least realize when she’d taken her slander too far but that didn’t stop her from rushing right back up to that line later on. I couldn’t like her, even when she realized her feelings for Benedict were of love rather than hate. She was a bit too over the top for me and the poor hero either had the patience of a saint or was an utter fool. Otherwise, this was a pleasant romp to escape reality with.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3893709610
https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/3261273427
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