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Wilde in Love
by Eloisa James
4.25 stars.
Pleasantly surprised with this. Eloisa James is somewhat hit or miss for me. I either can't get into some of her books or I really enjoy them. This was one that I really enjoyed and had a great time while reading it.
Alaric is an adventurer and writes about his travels. He has recently returned from his latest adventure and has discovered he has a boatload of female admirers and that there's a play about him that is adored by the masses. Willa is a young woman who was orphaned as young child, lives with Lavinia and her mother and has had a very successful season, if the amount of offers of marriage is anything to go by. One thing she craves is the more quiet life, definitely doesn't want to be with a man that has scores of women vying for his attention.
Before reading this, I skimmed a little, doing a quick flip through and saw a lot of 'Sweetpea's" throughout. I was worried that Alaric would be calling Willa Sweetpea and if he was doing it that much I might be annoyed. However I'm happy to note that Sweetpea was actually Willa's...pet that Alaric gifted her. And I adored Sweetpea, she was so cute. Probably not an advisable pet but I did love her.
This romance was really sweet. It was a bit of a slow burn but that gave Alaric and Willa a chance to get to know each other. While there were a lot of women who were infatuated with Alaric, Alaric was thrilled to find that Willa wasn't one of them. She hadn't even read his books. Their relationship grows at a nice pace. There is an incident that suddenly thrusts the two into a betrothal and that was an interesting twist.
And I love the step-back cover on the paperback. I love that the couple is laughing, that is so different from the serious yet sexy embrace that is normally in a step-back.
A couple minor things did bother me as I was reading, the main one was that we didn't really know a lot about Willa's life before she got to the Wilde's home. Yes, we knew she was orphaned at 9 and she always wanted a pet but not much more than that. Another thing was we were told that Willa and Lavinia had a lot of offers for marriage and were very popular during their season but there was little evidence of that, they were rarely around other men that weren't Alaric, one of the other Wilde men/boys, or Mr. Sterling.
Overall this was a fun read and that cliffhanger, cannot wait for the next book. Very curious to see what's in store for Diana and North.
Pleasantly surprised with this. Eloisa James is somewhat hit or miss for me. I either can't get into some of her books or I really enjoy them. This was one that I really enjoyed and had a great time while reading it.
Alaric is an adventurer and writes about his travels. He has recently returned from his latest adventure and has discovered he has a boatload of female admirers and that there's a play about him that is adored by the masses. Willa is a young woman who was orphaned as young child, lives with Lavinia and her mother and has had a very successful season, if the amount of offers of marriage is anything to go by. One thing she craves is the more quiet life, definitely doesn't want to be with a man that has scores of women vying for his attention.
Before reading this, I skimmed a little, doing a quick flip through and saw a lot of 'Sweetpea's" throughout. I was worried that Alaric would be calling Willa Sweetpea and if he was doing it that much I might be annoyed. However I'm happy to note that Sweetpea was actually Willa's...pet that Alaric gifted her. And I adored Sweetpea, she was so cute. Probably not an advisable pet but I did love her.
This romance was really sweet. It was a bit of a slow burn but that gave Alaric and Willa a chance to get to know each other. While there were a lot of women who were infatuated with Alaric, Alaric was thrilled to find that Willa wasn't one of them. She hadn't even read his books. Their relationship grows at a nice pace. There is an incident that suddenly thrusts the two into a betrothal and that was an interesting twist.
And I love the step-back cover on the paperback. I love that the couple is laughing, that is so different from the serious yet sexy embrace that is normally in a step-back.
A couple minor things did bother me as I was reading, the main one was that we didn't really know a lot about Willa's life before she got to the Wilde's home. Yes, we knew she was orphaned at 9 and she always wanted a pet but not much more than that. Another thing was we were told that Willa and Lavinia had a lot of offers for marriage and were very popular during their season but there was little evidence of that, they were rarely around other men that weren't Alaric, one of the other Wilde men/boys, or Mr. Sterling.
Overall this was a fun read and that cliffhanger, cannot wait for the next book. Very curious to see what's in store for Diana and North.