Reforming rake!
How to Catch an Errant Earl (The Disreputable Debutantes #2)
by Amy Rose Bennett
Another rather satisfying episode in The Disreputable Debutantes series. That delightful group of young women expelled from their exclusive boarding school. Forced to rethink their debut strategies, they decide to seek husbands from the ranks of the rakish rogues.
A Waterloo hero with a emotionally stunted childhood who's a seductive rake of the first order meets a rather unusual member of the group, an orphaned Bluestocking, Arabella Jardine in a ruined dungeon whilst touring Switzerland, and then ... ah well life takes quite a different turn for both of them.
Gabriel Holmes-Fitzgerald, the Earl of Langdale, also known as the Errant Earl is on the continent searching for his mother. A gifted artist BTW, he spends a lot of time during the story either lounging around naked drawing his wife, or naked pursuing her, whilst she spends time wondering how to attain his love, help him prove his legitimacy in order to retain the earldom, how to support various medical clinics in the slums, and set up well run orphanages.
I rather liked both lead characters. Arabella is an unusual women who spent time in an orphanage and then was reclaimed by her grandfather, a physician. From him she learnt many medical skills ... and of course if times were different she would have pursued that calling.
Then there's the villain of the piece, the drug enslaved wicked cousin of the earl's who's convinced the earl is illegitimate and is bent on fighting for the title.
Despite all these factors this is a surface skim type read that has a somewhat familiar air. Still, a pleasing read that possibly dwelled too much on the 'bed sport' aspect of things, nevertheless an enjoyable addition to the series.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
*** 1/2
by Amy Rose Bennett
Another rather satisfying episode in The Disreputable Debutantes series. That delightful group of young women expelled from their exclusive boarding school. Forced to rethink their debut strategies, they decide to seek husbands from the ranks of the rakish rogues.
A Waterloo hero with a emotionally stunted childhood who's a seductive rake of the first order meets a rather unusual member of the group, an orphaned Bluestocking, Arabella Jardine in a ruined dungeon whilst touring Switzerland, and then ... ah well life takes quite a different turn for both of them.
Gabriel Holmes-Fitzgerald, the Earl of Langdale, also known as the Errant Earl is on the continent searching for his mother. A gifted artist BTW, he spends a lot of time during the story either lounging around naked drawing his wife, or naked pursuing her, whilst she spends time wondering how to attain his love, help him prove his legitimacy in order to retain the earldom, how to support various medical clinics in the slums, and set up well run orphanages.
I rather liked both lead characters. Arabella is an unusual women who spent time in an orphanage and then was reclaimed by her grandfather, a physician. From him she learnt many medical skills ... and of course if times were different she would have pursued that calling.
Then there's the villain of the piece, the drug enslaved wicked cousin of the earl's who's convinced the earl is illegitimate and is bent on fighting for the title.
Despite all these factors this is a surface skim type read that has a somewhat familiar air. Still, a pleasing read that possibly dwelled too much on the 'bed sport' aspect of things, nevertheless an enjoyable addition to the series.
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley
*** 1/2
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