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A review by gracedwithbooks
An Earl, the Girl, and a Toddler by Vanessa Riley
4.0
First, a huge thank you to the publisher for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I was nervous going into this book, not having read the first in the series (A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby), but I found it difficult to put down once I got a bit further into the book. The beginning starts slow, but I became more invested in their story as I cared for the characters.
This is my first Vanessa Riley book, and I loved how she could have a conversation/shine a light on colonization, enslavement, and colorism in a historical context. I especially appreciated the information about the history of people of color at the end of the book.
Our main heroine, a widow, named Jemina, lost her memory in a shipwreck that left her to be placed in bedlam. Two years later, a lawyer, Daniel Thackery, freed her, and she has been working to give rights to other widows in London. Still, when she goes looking for clues to her past, her path collides once again with Daniel Thackery (the Earl of Ashbrooke), and the two cannot fight their growing attraction.
In many ways, this was a classic historical fiction romance with many plot twists from amnesia to scandals to secret mistresses. I feel as though I could have benefited from the information learned in the first book, but it is not required to read that book before this one.
I was nervous going into this book, not having read the first in the series (A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby), but I found it difficult to put down once I got a bit further into the book. The beginning starts slow, but I became more invested in their story as I cared for the characters.
This is my first Vanessa Riley book, and I loved how she could have a conversation/shine a light on colonization, enslavement, and colorism in a historical context. I especially appreciated the information about the history of people of color at the end of the book.
Our main heroine, a widow, named Jemina, lost her memory in a shipwreck that left her to be placed in bedlam. Two years later, a lawyer, Daniel Thackery, freed her, and she has been working to give rights to other widows in London. Still, when she goes looking for clues to her past, her path collides once again with Daniel Thackery (the Earl of Ashbrooke), and the two cannot fight their growing attraction.
In many ways, this was a classic historical fiction romance with many plot twists from amnesia to scandals to secret mistresses. I feel as though I could have benefited from the information learned in the first book, but it is not required to read that book before this one.