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A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
3.75
Kitty is the oldest of five orphaned sisters who have bills to pay and no money to pay them. Rather than lose their home and scatter to find work that they'd inevitably be terrible at, Kitty, who is a good looking pragmatist, takes her nerdiest sister to London to catch a rich husband. She wins over a prime candidate and his mother almost immediately, but his brother Radcliffe comes to stop her. He has very minor Daddy issues and just enough trauma from Waterloo to keep him from enjoying parties but nothing really disruptive.
Radcliffe makes a big show of being scandalized by Kitty's gold digging and blackmails her to stay away from his brother while also agreeing to help her catch a more mediocre man, which she does. They bond over their siblings' lack of common sense and a general inability to leave each other alone until they decide they are in love with each other, actually.
This book is a Pride and Prejudice mad lib; the prose is Austen-esque and shares a lot of the same dynamics, but tweaked very slightly. It suffers for being similar in so many ways, because it's obviously impossible to live up to the source material. I didn't quite believe the chemistry between the main characters, and they were both a little boring?. Still, it was an enjoyable listen (Eleanor Tomlinson narrates, and she is great).
Radcliffe makes a big show of being scandalized by Kitty's gold digging and blackmails her to stay away from his brother while also agreeing to help her catch a more mediocre man, which she does. They bond over their siblings' lack of common sense and a general inability to leave each other alone until they decide they are in love with each other, actually.
This book is a Pride and Prejudice mad lib; the prose is Austen-esque and shares a lot of the same dynamics, but tweaked very slightly. It suffers for being similar in so many ways, because it's obviously impossible to live up to the source material. I didn't quite believe the chemistry between the main characters, and they were both a little boring?. Still, it was an enjoyable listen (Eleanor Tomlinson narrates, and she is great).