Been left to rule the roost since her mothers passing, she is content with her life.
She doesnt want her heart to be broken and has no desire for marriage so hides behind her Clark Kent glasses.
The Dude – Jason Montgomery, the Duke of Eversleigh
The death of his younger brother at Waterloo means that he must now marry or everything will go to a dreadful distant cousin.
Can he find someone who ticks all the boxes?
The Plot in 10 (ish):
Jason: I must marry or my dreadful cousin will get everything, I will make a wife shopping list.
Lenore: Welcome, as you can see I am a woman (tick) and I can run a household (tick), I prefer to live in the country (tick), but I am plain as you can tell by my Clark Kent disguise.
Jason : Hey you don’t actually need those glasses. I know your superwomen (flings off glasses)
Lenore : Oh
Jason: Marry me, you fit all my wife shopping list items
Lenore: Ok, *Bown Chicka wow wow* damm I think I'm falling for you, but that wasn’t on the shopping list
Jason: Damm I think I'm falling for you, but that wasn’t on the shopping list
Lenore: I'm now breeding and all this partying it is not fun with morning sickness, all for your shopping list
Jason: Enough with the shopping list. I love you.
Lenore: really??? I love you too
Huzzahhh!
The End
The Book:
A pact between the brothers had decided that Ricky was to marry and continue the Montgomery line, so that Jason could carry on with is Rake pursuits. When Ricky was killed in Waterloo this changed everything. Jason writes a list of all the things he wants in a wife and discusses with his best friend Frederick, over who might fit the bill.
An invitation to a party at the Lester house draws their attention to Lenore. A single woman who runs the Lester house and ticks all their boxes. They venture off to the house party to see if she is as good in person as on paper.
Jason sees past her disguise and asks her to marry him giving his reasons for marriage. She is hesitant but agrees on the practicality of it all and looks forward to being able to run all Jason's houses. After they are married she becomes pregnant and has to deal with morning sickness, an excess of engagements and no longer the intimate connection with her husband.
I like Jason as a well rounded character, you understand the points he demands of his future wife and the love between them develops at a nice controlled pace. Although I don’t quite understand why he must wait for them to return home from London before he can start to show her how he loves her.
Lenore is a nice character too and doesn’t seem flat in anyway. When we meet her, Lenore hides behind badly fitting clothes, pinafores, glasses and tied back hair so as to not seek any unwanted attention and manage her brothers house-parties with indifference, which is explained nicely. It is only Jason that can see that it is a fake appearance and when she says yes to marrying him she takes them off. I do find this part a bit confusing as apparently she had been wearing these awful clothes and glasses for a long time as a shield to stop her getting hurt and for her to quickly forgo them without much hesitation, seemed a bit sudden to me, I thought she would be a bit more uncomfortable in her new attire without the pinafore to hide behind. And it is also one of those Clark Kent situations that taking off a pair of glasses makes her a completely changed person and all men stop and stare.
I was pleasantly surprised with this one, which I thought is one of her best stories. I liked it how they showed their relationship after marriage and how it developed. This book is part of a series but in no way did I feel it was setting me up for the next chapter. The only reference to the next book is her brother asking for her to help find him a wife once she is settled. I have not read the other books in the series so perhaps I will change my mind on that.
Favourite quote : “she is breeding, is she not?”, its an unusual way to ask if someone is pregnant.
No comments:
Post a Comment