Reviews

Always Proper, Suddenly Scandalous by Christi Caldwell

ls1024's review

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

iskanderjonesiv's review

4.0

Geoffrey Winters, Viscount Redbrooke was not always the hard, unrelenting lord driven by propriety. After a tragic mistake, he resolved to honor his responsibility to the Redbrooke line and live a life, free of scandal. Knowing his duty is to wed a proper, respectable English miss, he selects Lady Beatrice Dennington, daughter of the Duke of Somerset, the perfect woman for him. Until he meets Miss Abigail Stone...

To distance herself from a personal scandal, Abigail Stone flees America to visit her uncle, the Duke of Somerset. She finds herself helplessly intrigued by the hard, too-proper Geoffrey. With his strict appreciation for decorum and order, he is nothing like the man she's always dreamed of.

Abigail is everything Geoffrey does not need. She upends his carefully ordered world at every encounter. As they begin to care for one another, Abigail carefully guards the secret that resulted in her journey to England.

Only, if Geoffrey learns the truth about Abigail, he must decide which he holds most dear--his place in Society or Abigail's place in his heart.

**

emma_caputi's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

frandeb's review

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

kiraav's review

2.0

This is the second Christi Caldwell novel I’ve read and I think I should just stop here..

There is nothing wrong with the writing per se other than the fact that I get really frustrated by the unrealistic expectations placed on women during the regency era. Now this is not the first regency romance I’ve read and I do enjoy this genre as a whole but Geoffrey’s character in this one had me dreading Abigail’s future life with him.

His reaction to getting to know about the scandal involving Abigail was so out of place especially since he himself had run away in the past, I mean when he didn’t think about Emma’s reputation back then, why such a huge reaction to this now? It seemed misplaced to me. If anything, I assumed he would be really supportive of Abby and fight for her with the society but nope.

They did get together in the end because these romances mostly do always have HEAs but by then I had lost interest in wanting these characters to be together and their sappy love confessions didn’t work for me a bit.

I had really wanted to love with this one but characters like Geoffrey are just not acceptable. I would have been a lot happier if Abby had ended up with Sinclair lol, that guy was a million times better than our so called hero.

virginiaduan's review

3.0

Though a trifle predictable, still a wonderful read. Now I want more Sinclair.

cookiedoughkisses's review

4.0

Loved this book. It was very dramatic and lot of fun.

plutomoment's review

2.0

I could not get over the poor writing. Missing and wrong words, repetitiveness. "The top of the box had been crushed on the top." What? Sentences like this all through the book.

marimaiz's review

3.0

There's a lot of going nowhere in this book. Seriously, so much of the plot goes absolutely nowhere. There are parts of the story that leaves you really wanting to know more, and then... I think the main characters spend too much time in dispair of love and after a while I just grew tired of it. They are well written, but I think the plot left a lot to be desired. Maybe this story was supposed to be shorter.