Scan barcode
A review by bananatricky
The Captain's Bluestocking Mistress by Erica Ridley
3.0
Hmm, I was really enjoying this until pretty much the final scene, at which point I was all, "WTF?". Unnecessary theatricality.
Jane Dowling is a bluestocking (intellectual), totally overlooked by society, so much so that people constantly forget that they have met her before. She has even tried making outrageous comments in the hope of people remembering her to no avail. She has a crush on Captain Xavier Grey (the catatonic one from the previous book) and decides that since she is unlikely to ever marry she will instead experience sex in a different way. When her brother goes away on business Jane decides she will travel to Xavier's cottage in Essex and ask him if she can be his mistress.
Xavier is horrified by what he did during the war and feels unfit for polite society, at first he resists Jane but she wears him down with her humour and intelligence. Trapped together by a snowstorm they must spend several days together alone.
I really enjoyed this, the intellectual yet naive woman deciding she must know what is so special about love-making and determining that the only way to achieve that is by propositioning a man. The days that Jane and Xavier spend alone in the cottage are delightful and I would totally fall for him too.
If it hadn't been for the ridiculously OTT ending it would have been a four star review.
Jane Dowling is a bluestocking (intellectual), totally overlooked by society, so much so that people constantly forget that they have met her before. She has even tried making outrageous comments in the hope of people remembering her to no avail. She has a crush on Captain Xavier Grey (the catatonic one from the previous book) and decides that since she is unlikely to ever marry she will instead experience sex in a different way. When her brother goes away on business Jane decides she will travel to Xavier's cottage in Essex and ask him if she can be his mistress.
Xavier is horrified by what he did during the war and feels unfit for polite society, at first he resists Jane but she wears him down with her humour and intelligence. Trapped together by a snowstorm they must spend several days together alone.
I really enjoyed this, the intellectual yet naive woman deciding she must know what is so special about love-making and determining that the only way to achieve that is by propositioning a man. The days that Jane and Xavier spend alone in the cottage are delightful and I would totally fall for him too.
If it hadn't been for the ridiculously OTT ending it would have been a four star review.