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A review by kaleyamo
Never Fall for Your Fiancée by Virginia Heath
3.0
The best way I can describe this book is…chaotic.
This book starts when Hugh Standish’s mother writes to inform him that she’s on her way for a visit from across the pond to meet Hugh’s fiancée Minerva. The only problem? There is no Minerva. Hugh made her up to get his matchmaking mama off his back.
When Hugh happens across a woman in distress, and learns her name is also Minerva, he forms a plan — he’ll pay Minerva to pose as his fiancée during his mother’s visit.
Instead of telling his mother the truth, Hugh keeps up the lie with a plan that just keeps getting more complicated, including a sister who refuses to lie, an elopement plot between his fake fiancée and best friend, a hired actress to play a long-dead mother, and a blackmailing father.
This cast of characters could have set the story up to be really fun — except all the lies cause a lot of miscommunication between Minerva and Hugh — and there’s also the little fact that Hugh believes it’s “in his blood” that he cannot marry a woman and be faithful because of his lineage.
This book starts when Hugh Standish’s mother writes to inform him that she’s on her way for a visit from across the pond to meet Hugh’s fiancée Minerva. The only problem? There is no Minerva. Hugh made her up to get his matchmaking mama off his back.
When Hugh happens across a woman in distress, and learns her name is also Minerva, he forms a plan — he’ll pay Minerva to pose as his fiancée during his mother’s visit.
Instead of telling his mother the truth, Hugh keeps up the lie with a plan that just keeps getting more complicated, including a sister who refuses to lie, an elopement plot between his fake fiancée and best friend, a hired actress to play a long-dead mother, and a blackmailing father.
This cast of characters could have set the story up to be really fun — except all the lies cause a lot of miscommunication between Minerva and Hugh — and there’s also the little fact that Hugh believes it’s “in his blood” that he cannot marry a woman and be faithful because of his lineage.