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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
I didn't give this book 4 stars because it lacked anything. It just annoyed me how long it took the protagonists to communicate their feelings and such. The paternity twist was certainly surprising.
2.5 stars
I like the premise of this series - that the survivors of a tragedy have to come to terms with it in their own ways. Adrian Spence, Earl of Albright, was provoked into killing a friend in self-defence, and has been (not unnaturally) haunted by the event. He's also struggling with his father's unreasoning dislike of him, and the fact that his brother Benedict is likely to be named his father's heir. The first part of the book sees Albright determining to get one up on his brother, at least, by speed-wooing Benedict's intended, Lilliana.
There are some good things to appreciate about The Dangerous Gentleman: the way in which Lilliana develops in order to gain her lord's attention, the tender scenes when she nurses him back to active life after an injury, and, most especially, Benedict's insidious Iago-like attempts to drive a wedge between the couple. But I'm rating this book comparatively low, although it's well enough written, because Albright lurched continually between caring Hero and Jerk. At one moment, he is appreciating Lilliana's fresh charm, at the next, deciding this must be a front. It grew tiring, frankly, and was almost never justified by anything other than the need to provoke conflict between the H&H. He does some top-quality grovelling at the very end, which (as I am a shallow person) was gratifying. But still...
This is the second of this series I've read, and while I can see some good things in the writing, I've not felt satisfied by either book.
I like the premise of this series - that the survivors of a tragedy have to come to terms with it in their own ways. Adrian Spence, Earl of Albright, was provoked into killing a friend in self-defence, and has been (not unnaturally) haunted by the event. He's also struggling with his father's unreasoning dislike of him, and the fact that his brother Benedict is likely to be named his father's heir. The first part of the book sees Albright determining to get one up on his brother, at least, by speed-wooing Benedict's intended, Lilliana.
There are some good things to appreciate about The Dangerous Gentleman: the way in which Lilliana develops in order to gain her lord's attention,
This is the second of this series I've read, and while I can see some good things in the writing, I've not felt satisfied by either book.