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All things seem to be going her way until a veteran of Waterloo catches wind of what she might be plotting. De hecho se cuece a fuego muy lento lo que hay entre Kitty y lord Radcliffe, casi hasta el final y aviso de que es novela blanca. In our over-sexualised era, it is perhaps inconceivable to fall in love with anyone without even touching them, but it is enough to read this book to see that this is entirely possible.
While that's OK, I mean you don't always need to have a plot twist or be on tender hooks for every book you read, I wouldn't have minded something a little unpredictable. I am going to have to politely ask historical romance authors and their marketing teams to stop titling books with “A Lady’s Guide…” It’s certainly more palatable than the slew of “The [Profession]’s Daughter/Wife/Sister-in-Law/Female Second Cousin Once Removed” in literary and historical fiction but it’s still confusing.Estaba pasando un momento de desconexión del mundo literario y este título me llamó la atención e hizo que me apeteciera ponerme a leer. Pero no dejó de ser un libro entretenido e intrigante que, como he dicho, me dejaba con ganas de seguir leyendo. In truth, I devoured them by meters, and the fact that they only ever tell one story under different names was never a factor strong enough to dissuade me.
Some of these books I DNFd after a number of chapters (some books I didn't even include in this list because as soon as I started reading them I was just like "immediately no"). After her parent’s death, Kitty was left with debts, four sisters to support and a goal to marry rich so that her sisters would have a place to live. The ending had the kind of heart-fluttery tenderness that made me want to pause and immediately re-read! Oh, don't get me wrong, there was still London, and the haut ton, and the season and the lot of it, but outside of those historical props and settings, the people in there were thoroughly and utterly modern.It's essentially a battle of wills between an upper-class eldest son hellbent on stopping a mercenary and impoverished young woman from marrying into his family. Irwin flits back and forth between musing on different character perspectives and it was sometimes jarring—it would be like “Person A observed…” then immediately “Person B thought that…” followed by “Person C wondered…” etc. The extent of the romantic development we get here is like two scenes where the characters talk about Deep Stuff and then next thing you know, they're in love!
Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for an egalley in exchange for an honest review. Kitty might come across as abrasive to some readers, but the author does such a nice job portraying her that I found her quite wonderful as the book progresses. In a Nutshell: Want a good old Regency Romance with lots of fun banter and chuckle-inducing scenes and also some serious topics?Her occasional snatches of guilt were eyeball rolling as were the continual repeated justifications of her actions. Quando passeiam pelo Hyde Park, Cecily reconhece uma antiga colega do colégio que frequentou, os De Lacy. Only Kitty doesn't reckon for Lord Radcliffe, who is determined to thwart her from entrapping his brother.
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