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How to Catch a Wicked Viscount (The Disreputable Debutantes #1)
by Amy Rose Bennett
So we have a plethora of interesting characters and situations in this first of the series "The Disreputable Debutantes".
Four young women who'd been sent down from an exclusive ladies school for behaviour that did not fit with the school's ethos.
Of course Society gossiped about it and they did have to rusticate as it were for three years.
Now these disgraced debutantes are determined to take matters into their own hands as they work their way back into the social arena. Not for them the pale aspects of Almanacks. They are making a list of Rakes and are determining to to find a husband in hitherto unlooked for areas.
It helps that one of their number Lady Charlotte Hastings, has a brother, Nate Hastings, the Viscount Malverne, who's a throrough rake. His friends appear to be handily listed as well. Well they did all fight in Waterloo and they seem to share an inability to put those times behind them. What better way to conquer the ghosts that to be confirmed Rakehells!
Deceptively shy Sophie Brightwell has come to have a season with Charlie, under the auspices of Charlie's aunt. And Sophies heart seems to have settled on Charlie's brother. The getting there is laced with some racy moments with Nate being disturbed by his attraction for Sophie and his dissatisfaction when others seem attracted to her.
For all this, the story didn't quite meet its promise. A quick read. It's memory doesn't linger.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
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by Amy Rose Bennett
Four young women who'd been sent down from an exclusive ladies school for behaviour that did not fit with the school's ethos.
Of course Society gossiped about it and they did have to rusticate as it were for three years.
Now these disgraced debutantes are determined to take matters into their own hands as they work their way back into the social arena. Not for them the pale aspects of Almanacks. They are making a list of Rakes and are determining to to find a husband in hitherto unlooked for areas.
It helps that one of their number Lady Charlotte Hastings, has a brother, Nate Hastings, the Viscount Malverne, who's a throrough rake. His friends appear to be handily listed as well. Well they did all fight in Waterloo and they seem to share an inability to put those times behind them. What better way to conquer the ghosts that to be confirmed Rakehells!
Deceptively shy Sophie Brightwell has come to have a season with Charlie, under the auspices of Charlie's aunt. And Sophies heart seems to have settled on Charlie's brother. The getting there is laced with some racy moments with Nate being disturbed by his attraction for Sophie and his dissatisfaction when others seem attracted to her.
For all this, the story didn't quite meet its promise. A quick read. It's memory doesn't linger.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
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