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A review by thereadingbel
His at Night by Sherry Thomas
4.0
The book is about two people who live their lives while playing out a role, 24 hours out of the day. Both Vere and Elissande have very good reasons for why they pretend to be someone that they are not. Vere does it to right wrongs, to exact vengeance when he could not save his mother so many years ago. Elissande does it for her survival. The story is about two damaged people who find each other and save each other. Lord Vere, a marquess, is some kind of spy or secret agent for the British Crown. He pretends to be a fool - a good-natured bumbling idiot, but hiding a sharp native intelligence beneath it.
Elissande is a prisoner in her own home, along with her frail aunt whom she tries her best to protect from the nastiness of Elissande's uncle. When the wicked uncle becomes implicated in a crime, Lord Vere and a group of others make their way into his house when he is away, to secretly suss out some clues about his past. And Elissande decides to seize her chance to escape, to save herself and her aunt from the clutches of the uncle. She finds a way to force Vere to marry her, but strangely, the marriage happens within a few days. It had to happen before the uncle returned from his trip. The timeline was just too short. It made the relationship feel rushed how they came together.
Vere and Elissande fall for each other, although this was a bit more believable in the way it was written. It was inevitable that it would happen Elissande needed to be saved. It takes some time and it's not all smooth sailing along the way. The dirty secrets of the past are gradually revealed, both for Vere and for Elissande. And their final coming together in honesty and love is quite touching.
Elissande is a prisoner in her own home, along with her frail aunt whom she tries her best to protect from the nastiness of Elissande's uncle. When the wicked uncle becomes implicated in a crime, Lord Vere and a group of others make their way into his house when he is away, to secretly suss out some clues about his past. And Elissande decides to seize her chance to escape, to save herself and her aunt from the clutches of the uncle. She finds a way to force Vere to marry her, but strangely, the marriage happens within a few days. It had to happen before the uncle returned from his trip. The timeline was just too short. It made the relationship feel rushed how they came together.
Vere and Elissande fall for each other, although this was a bit more believable in the way it was written. It was inevitable that it would happen Elissande needed to be saved. It takes some time and it's not all smooth sailing along the way. The dirty secrets of the past are gradually revealed, both for Vere and for Elissande. And their final coming together in honesty and love is quite touching.