"True love is best found when one is not looking"
The Scottish Lockhart's desperately need the money they
will get from the sale of their families solid gold
beastie. The only problem is, Liam didn't manage to get the
beastie home when he went to London to steal it back from
their English cousins. So now Griffin will head to London
to find the woman who they think has the beastie, and bring
it home. The catch: He can't go as a Lockhart because the English
cousins probably would probably throw him into Newgate for
having stolen it in the first place. The plan: Assume a
title that is no longer in use, infiltrate the English
society and get the beastie back. The problem: One English
wallflower who fancy's herself in love with an English
Lockhart figures out the truth and finds the beastie first! Julia London has written a fun Regency romance. Anna has
had several seasons and is on the verge of getting put "on
the shelf" which she belatedly decided she didn't want. She
has always admired Drake Lockhart (the English cousin) and
thought he admired her as well, until her younger sister
Lucy becomes the bell of the season, and Anna hears that
Drake will offer for Lucy. While I enjoyed the story, it seemed a little long. Julia
London strikes me as wordy in her writing, and therefore I
wasn't sucked into the story as much as I thought I should.
Up until Anna blackmails Griffin things seemed to drag for
me. Anna was almost annoying - she kind of struck me as a
busy body. Grif was doing the best he could to find the
beastie, but he was going about it all wrong. So there is
humor. For me the story really picked up after Anna blackmails
Grif and tells him that she wants to learn how to seduce a
man. Here, I also I found myself starting to like Anna as a
heroine. I think its mostly because the two were starting
to care for each other, but Grif ironed out the side that
didn't accentuate her feminine side. Which was pretty funny
actually! This was a fun read, and I'm really looking forward to
finding out what happens to Mared (Griffen and Liams
sister) who was used as collateral for the beastie and is
evidentially cursed! Courtesy:eBOOKISLE
Posted February 11, 2006
Reviewed by Cynthia Eckert
Posted January 1, 2007
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