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A review by ipomoea
Counting on a Countess by Eva Leigh
4.0
I received an advance copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Yaay, new Eva Leigh! As usual, this has Leigh's intelligent, complicated hero and heroine, a well-researched plot, and feels like it should be longer.
Kit is a penniless lord who needs a wife ASAP in order to gain a fortune, and Tamsyn is a penniless lady who needs a wealthy husband ASAP in order to save her home village. When they find each other, each thinks the other will solve their problems. But when Kit's inheritance comes with a surprise requirement, suddenly, Tamsyn is a very wealthy woman with a very put out husband. How can Kit make his dream a reality if Tamsyn wants that same money for her village?
I really, really liked the stories of the two main characters. I love that Kit's goal is a pleasure garden, and that Tamsyn's running a smuggling operation. When I finished this, I wanted to dig up everything I could find about pleasure gardens, and that's after dozens of books with Vauxhall as a plot point. Kit's reasoning for the garden felt like something he'd latched onto and hadn't reexamined, like many of us do with long-held ideas, as did Tamsyn's goal. I liked that their arcs required them to take a hard look at what they actually wanted vs what they thought they wanted, something that definitely feels like a step in adulthood.
Yaay, new Eva Leigh! As usual, this has Leigh's intelligent, complicated hero and heroine, a well-researched plot, and feels like it should be longer.
Kit is a penniless lord who needs a wife ASAP in order to gain a fortune, and Tamsyn is a penniless lady who needs a wealthy husband ASAP in order to save her home village. When they find each other, each thinks the other will solve their problems. But when Kit's inheritance comes with a surprise requirement, suddenly, Tamsyn is a very wealthy woman with a very put out husband. How can Kit make his dream a reality if Tamsyn wants that same money for her village?
I really, really liked the stories of the two main characters. I love that Kit's goal is a pleasure garden, and that Tamsyn's running a smuggling operation. When I finished this, I wanted to dig up everything I could find about pleasure gardens, and that's after dozens of books with Vauxhall as a plot point. Kit's reasoning for the garden felt like something he'd latched onto and hadn't reexamined, like many of us do with long-held ideas, as did Tamsyn's goal. I liked that their arcs required them to take a hard look at what they actually wanted vs what they thought they wanted, something that definitely feels like a step in adulthood.