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falulatonks's review against another edition
3.0
I should've written the review after writing it last month, yeesh. Super likable characters and well-used/paced story beats (and I FUCKING LOVE these tropes), but the falling-in-love bits felt a little lacking - I probably should've read their scenes in the earlier books for it to really feel great for me.
hijinx_abound's review against another edition
3.0
Solid historical romance. A young woman with a bit more spine than men of the ton expect finds herself scandalized and renounced prior to her wedding. Her brothers friend, whom she’s always verbally sparred with, steps in and marries her. High jinx ensue. Misunderstandings abound and a scandal sheet endeavors to ruin her.
I liked the characters and even though I didn’t read the first 2 books, I didn’t feel like I was unable to connect to these characters.
I liked the characters and even though I didn’t read the first 2 books, I didn’t feel like I was unable to connect to these characters.
planetarypan's review against another edition
4.0
As tasty as I expected, this book follows our OTP through a few "scandals" and a hasty marriage of convenience that really isn't. I love the two lead characters and while the scandals are manufactured and seemingly minor, they are still worth handling. I definitely ached for the couple as they miscommunicated time and again.
loverofromance's review against another edition
4.0
Genevieve, knows that it is time to get married. So she accepts an offer, but then the worst happens. During a ball, she receives a note from a friend, to meet in a private room to discuss something of great importance. When she arrives however, she finds herself being attacked by a man she is acquainted with, who is drunk and as she tries to fight him off, ends up being seen by numerous members of the Ton. Now she is embroiled in a scandal, and her fiancee rejects her in front of others in the most unscrupulous way. Then Myles, a friend of her brothers, makes a respectable offer to her of marriage. Even though at first she refuses to to accept his offer. The last thing that she wants to do is hurt Myles. But she knows she doesn't have many options, she she accepts his offer. At first she doesn't know what to make of this marriage. She cares deeply for Myles, but he has known her since she was a little girl. Genevieve starts to have mixed feelings about Myles, she is starting to feel much more for Myles than she ever did before. Now she is starting to feel a deep desire for Myles, he has awakened her senses and she she knows she risks losing her heart to him. I haven't read Canace Camp in quite some time, so when Edelweiss offered me this ARC copy to read and review, I was overly excited. I just have loved every book that I have read from this author so far. So I was so excited to read this especially after reading the blurb. It took a chapter or two to get into the story, and then once I really got into it, I was fully enthralled. I found it difficult to put down. Genevieve I found to be a very endearing character, and I was on her side through most of the story. Among most people she seems to carry the image of being ice cold, when she isn't the most social of people. She is more shy than anything, (which I find I can relate with a bit :). So I really enjoyed seeing her come out of her shell throughout the story. From the start I fell for Myles, he is the type of hero you just want for yourself. He is very honorable, and caring but still has a strong and protective personality. I really loved how these two were together, it was so sweet and tender at times. But they surely did know how to argue and fight...so much so that it was widely entertaining and amusing. There were many things that I loved about The Marrying Scandal. One is the intriguing plot that had some mysterious elements and even some suspenseful moments involved. Second were the depth of the characters and how well their emotions and actions were portrayed throughout the story. Also there were definitely sparks flying between these two that just sizzled and danced. A Lovely story that is full of everything that you need for a satisfying tale of romance. A True Treasure!
sheltzer's review against another edition
4.0
Oh yes. The thawing of the ice queen is exactly what the doctor ordered. It's always a pleasure when the well liked side-kick male of a series gets a girl of his own!
mholles's review against another edition
3.0
Can be read without reading the first two books in the trilogy. Rawdon's sister Genevieve's engagement to the stuffy Lord Drusbury is abruptly ended after she is lured to the library at a party. Her brother's friend Sir Myles Thorwood offers for her to save her reputation. She can't believe her verbal sparring partner might really want her for a wife.
booksuperpower's review against another edition
5.0
The Marrying Season is the third in the St. Dwynwen series. As always this book can be read as a stand alone. This book is a pocket books publication and is scheduled for a April 2013 release.
Genevieve has a reputation for being an ice princess. She uses the reputation to ward off advances, but eventually she knows she must marry and finally accepts the proposal of Lord Dursbury.
At a social engagement, Genny meets up with her brother Alec's best friend Myles. They engage in their usual mild flirtations and arguments. Before the evening was over though, Genevieve finds her repuation in ruins and her engagement off.
Myles, unable to bear her misery, offers to marry her. Under extreme pressure, Genevieve accepts and she and Myles are married.
Things are not too bad at first, but then Myles gets wind of a plot to ruin Genevieve's reputation and they return to London before the honeymoon is over. The disagreements and misunderstandings mount between the newlyweds until Genny thinks she may have to leave London.
Myles wants to have a real marriage, but keeps putting his foot in his mouth. He is at a complete loss as to what to do. But, he also knows he must get to the bottom of the lies that continue to circulate about his new wife. Someone is out to destroy Genny and he intends to get to the bottom of it.
Genny has the help and support of two really good friends when not only her repuation and marriage are in trouble, but she finds herself dealing with feelings she never had before. She tries to stay true to herself and wants Myles to love her the way she is.
She and Myles engage in a war to see which one will give in first.
As the plot unfolds concerning the deliberate attack on Genny, Myles and Genny learn to work together instead of against each other and discover the two may have love match after all.
Although they are married before they make love, which is actually much more accurate to this time period, it doesn't take away from the senuality. There is quite bit of steam that slowly builds and builds as Genny is awakened to certain advantages of marriage.
Attention new authors of Regency romance novels- and maybe even more seasoned authors could take note. This is the way Regency period romance should be written. This is a perfect model. The language, the social strictures of the "ton", the scandals, and how innocent certain ladies were about lovemaking before they were married and the adjustments most people make when first married.
The friendship that was in place for Myles and Genny helped build a true love relationship between them, but not before they went through the usual gowing pains.
This book has all the elements I love about romance novels.
I highly recommend this novel. A++ Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for the ARC
Genevieve has a reputation for being an ice princess. She uses the reputation to ward off advances, but eventually she knows she must marry and finally accepts the proposal of Lord Dursbury.
At a social engagement, Genny meets up with her brother Alec's best friend Myles. They engage in their usual mild flirtations and arguments. Before the evening was over though, Genevieve finds her repuation in ruins and her engagement off.
Myles, unable to bear her misery, offers to marry her. Under extreme pressure, Genevieve accepts and she and Myles are married.
Things are not too bad at first, but then Myles gets wind of a plot to ruin Genevieve's reputation and they return to London before the honeymoon is over. The disagreements and misunderstandings mount between the newlyweds until Genny thinks she may have to leave London.
Myles wants to have a real marriage, but keeps putting his foot in his mouth. He is at a complete loss as to what to do. But, he also knows he must get to the bottom of the lies that continue to circulate about his new wife. Someone is out to destroy Genny and he intends to get to the bottom of it.
Genny has the help and support of two really good friends when not only her repuation and marriage are in trouble, but she finds herself dealing with feelings she never had before. She tries to stay true to herself and wants Myles to love her the way she is.
She and Myles engage in a war to see which one will give in first.
As the plot unfolds concerning the deliberate attack on Genny, Myles and Genny learn to work together instead of against each other and discover the two may have love match after all.
Although they are married before they make love, which is actually much more accurate to this time period, it doesn't take away from the senuality. There is quite bit of steam that slowly builds and builds as Genny is awakened to certain advantages of marriage.
Attention new authors of Regency romance novels- and maybe even more seasoned authors could take note. This is the way Regency period romance should be written. This is a perfect model. The language, the social strictures of the "ton", the scandals, and how innocent certain ladies were about lovemaking before they were married and the adjustments most people make when first married.
The friendship that was in place for Myles and Genny helped build a true love relationship between them, but not before they went through the usual gowing pains.
This book has all the elements I love about romance novels.
I highly recommend this novel. A++ Thanks to the publisher and Edelweiss for the ARC
shopgirl's review against another edition
4.0
I was SO JAZZED to get to this book that I blasted through the first two in the series which to be honest I think might have been a mistake, as all three books share some undeniable structural similarities, e.g.:
the OTP is in some way forced to stay together in a small house away from society where they at last explore/consummate their intense passion,
only to return to society where they must separate once more because of [x reason specific to each couple].
(The sex is fairly formulaic, too, with each couple going through the same basic evolution in bed.)
BUT WHATEVER!!!!!! Let's talk about the real shit here:
Fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuck, THIS IS A GREAT OTP. BLESS ME. BLESS YOU. BLESS MY ENTIRE FAMILY. BLESS MY COW. I want to like pick Genevieve/Myles up and eat it and carry it with me forever in my heart and/or digestive system. First thing you need to know is um, OBVS I was going to love the shit out of Genevieve and Myles. 1) She's haughty and socially awkward, with no friends and little idea of where to start, and she finds most people irritating or boring. 2) He's a charming and outgoing flirt who befriends everyone and has no trouble whatsoever fitting in wherever he goes. 3) They've known each other almost their entire lives, as he's best friends with her older brother. 4) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PUT A CHOCOLATE GLAZE ON THAT BUSINESS AND GIVE IT TO ME STAT. NO, I DON'T NEED A FORK. PUT THAT NAPKIN AWAY, I'LL LICK MY FINGERS CLEAN
OK, so, ANYWAY, Genevieve gets jilted by her fiancee, Dullsbury (SNORESBURY) (I'm hilarious) (his name is Dursbury), in such a way that her reputation is perhaps Ruined Forever. In steps Myles to heroically propose to her. BUT ALAS, FOR THEY ARE BUT FRIENDS AND NOT IN LOVE, wait, no, I'm sorry, they are totally in love and it is g r 8, GREAT, but ofc they're all like NO IT IS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE and Genevieve is all O MYLES HAS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR ME, HE MUST DETEST ME and Myles is all O GENEVIEVE THINKS I AM FECKLESS AND THAT I HAVE DONE THIS ONLY OUT OF DUTY, SHE MUST DETEST ME and I'm all [emotionally tearing at hair, face, life, soul, very fabric of the cosmos].
The real conflict in their relationship arises from the very thing that makes their relationship so strong, and that's the history they share. Genevieve, knowing Myles has seen how very Proper she is and how difficult it is for her to maintain even friendships, fears he thinks her cold. Myles, knowing Genevieve has seen how very Improper he is and how very quickly he moves on from one thing to the next, fears she cannot trust him. Apart from society, with only each other, they are able to ignore these things - rather, these things aren't relevant to their immediate situation, and the newness of this change in their relationship, this sudden allowance to want and touch and love each other, is such that these things that might be problems seem not to exist. But when they return, for external plot reasons, to London, to society, to the expectations of society and of the reputations each possesses, their reputations come to define them even within their relationship. (In this way, that aforementioned structure common to each book in the series works for me here as it did not in the previous two books.)
Much of Camp does with their romance is delightful: Myles does not "claim" Genevieve or pressure her, andtheir sort of ~battle of the sexes~ late in the book plays out admirably even-handed and resolves with (yes, sex, but also) a frank discussion of their fears (hers that he cannot love her because she is too "cold," his that she cannot love him because he isn't "respectable").
So the romance is wonderful - Myles is respectful and supportive of Genevieve (and he so clearly adores her from the very start), and Genevieve's emotional growth is the central focus of the book, with her needs and feelings emphasized over his - but!!!! The Marrying Season does something the first two books didn't: there are so many ladies!!! So many ladies and they're friends and they support each other, and Genevieve gets to proactively investigate her Mystery with the help of Damaris and Thea, and Myles' sisters and mother and Genevieve's grandmother all work to help her in different ways, and it's just like, gosh! Oh, gosh! And it isn't Myles who saves Genevieve at the end, it isn't Myles who Solves the Mystery, Myles who claimes Genevieve as his, it's Genevieve who saves herself, Genevieve who Solves the Mystery, Genevieve who claims Myles as her own; and she does these things with the friendship of women, with the confidence she earns not just in her relationship with Myles but in her relationships with her grandmother and Damaris and Thea. It's lovely.
It also makes the revelation at the end that all the machinations intended to sink Genevieve were courtesy of a woman who wanted Myles for herself more palatable. While that's still rather eyeball-worthy, the prominence of so many other women in positive, supportive roles is so thorough that it doesn't stick out quite so badly as, say, the revelation at the end of the first book in the series that Thea's cousin's wife was jealous of &c. YAY, MORE LADIES? Yeah. Always yeah.
P.S. spoiler alert: Genevieve and Myles were in love the entire time lololol.
(The sex is fairly formulaic, too, with each couple going through the same basic evolution in bed.)
BUT WHATEVER!!!!!! Let's talk about the real shit here:
Fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuck, THIS IS A GREAT OTP. BLESS ME. BLESS YOU. BLESS MY ENTIRE FAMILY. BLESS MY COW. I want to like pick Genevieve/Myles up and eat it and carry it with me forever in my heart and/or digestive system. First thing you need to know is um, OBVS I was going to love the shit out of Genevieve and Myles. 1) She's haughty and socially awkward, with no friends and little idea of where to start, and she finds most people irritating or boring. 2) He's a charming and outgoing flirt who befriends everyone and has no trouble whatsoever fitting in wherever he goes. 3) They've known each other almost their entire lives, as he's best friends with her older brother. 4) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PUT A CHOCOLATE GLAZE ON THAT BUSINESS AND GIVE IT TO ME STAT. NO, I DON'T NEED A FORK. PUT THAT NAPKIN AWAY, I'LL LICK MY FINGERS CLEAN
OK, so, ANYWAY, Genevieve gets jilted by her fiancee, Dullsbury (SNORESBURY) (I'm hilarious) (his name is Dursbury), in such a way that her reputation is perhaps Ruined Forever. In steps Myles to heroically propose to her. BUT ALAS, FOR THEY ARE BUT FRIENDS AND NOT IN LOVE, wait, no, I'm sorry, they are totally in love and it is g r 8, GREAT, but ofc they're all like NO IT IS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE and Genevieve is all O MYLES HAS SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR ME, HE MUST DETEST ME and Myles is all O GENEVIEVE THINKS I AM FECKLESS AND THAT I HAVE DONE THIS ONLY OUT OF DUTY, SHE MUST DETEST ME and I'm all [emotionally tearing at hair, face, life, soul, very fabric of the cosmos].
The real conflict in their relationship arises from the very thing that makes their relationship so strong, and that's the history they share. Genevieve, knowing Myles has seen how very Proper she is and how difficult it is for her to maintain even friendships, fears he thinks her cold. Myles, knowing Genevieve has seen how very Improper he is and how very quickly he moves on from one thing to the next, fears she cannot trust him. Apart from society, with only each other, they are able to ignore these things - rather, these things aren't relevant to their immediate situation, and the newness of this change in their relationship, this sudden allowance to want and touch and love each other, is such that these things that might be problems seem not to exist. But when they return, for external plot reasons, to London, to society, to the expectations of society and of the reputations each possesses, their reputations come to define them even within their relationship. (In this way, that aforementioned structure common to each book in the series works for me here as it did not in the previous two books.)
Much of Camp does with their romance is delightful: Myles does not "claim" Genevieve or pressure her, and
So the romance is wonderful - Myles is respectful and supportive of Genevieve (and he so clearly adores her from the very start), and Genevieve's emotional growth is the central focus of the book, with her needs and feelings emphasized over his - but!!!! The Marrying Season does something the first two books didn't: there are so many ladies!!! So many ladies and they're friends and they support each other, and Genevieve gets to proactively investigate her Mystery with the help of Damaris and Thea, and Myles' sisters and mother and Genevieve's grandmother all work to help her in different ways, and it's just like, gosh! Oh, gosh! And it isn't Myles who saves Genevieve at the end, it isn't Myles who Solves the Mystery, Myles who claimes Genevieve as his, it's Genevieve who saves herself, Genevieve who Solves the Mystery, Genevieve who claims Myles as her own; and she does these things with the friendship of women, with the confidence she earns not just in her relationship with Myles but in her relationships with her grandmother and Damaris and Thea. It's lovely.
P.S. spoiler alert: Genevieve and Myles were in love the entire time lololol.
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