The Luckiest Lady in London Author: Sherry Thomas | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BDQ3AUM | Format: EPUB
The Luckiest Lady in London Description
"Transporting" --The New York Times Book Review
From the superbly gifted Sherry Thomas comes this beautifully written romance about a marriage of convenience that turns inconveniently passionate... Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation.
Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth—though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes. Still, when he is the only man to propose at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts.
Louisa does not understand her husband’s mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure her body takes in his touch. Nor can she deny the pull this magnetic man exerts upon her. But does she dare to fall in love with a man so full of dark secrets, any one of which could devastate her, if she were to get any closer?
- File Size: 1849 KB
- Print Length: 298 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1472214528
- Publisher: Berkley (November 5, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BDQ3AUM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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There's reading magic in a Sherry Thomas romance. It's the great way she writes, the imperfections and depth of her characters, the very rough path to the HEA where I actually feel the pain of the H or h, something I'm often clinically removed from with romance by other authors, and the great feeling of relief and happiness the books give me when the H and h do finally get to their HEA.
Ordinarily, the poor little unloved rich boy hero who grows up to avoid the trap of love is not a character I feel much sympathy for, but the prologue of this book has me aching for young Felix Rivendale. A pawn in his parents' marriage, his mother shows affection for him only when she sees it will hurt her husband, and the father is distant and doesn't even trust that Felix shares his DNA. Orphaned at 17, Felix adopts his protective "Ideal Gentleman" persona, which will show him to be an example of all that is perfect in a man. But he will only allow himself friendship and affection for others, because love makes you powerless and vulnerable. He learned that long ago when he yearned for a mother's and father's love in vain.
Enter Louisa Cantwell, from a poor, slightly scandalous family. Louisa is insecure but pragmatic. She knows she lacks money, pedigree, accomplishments, and, in particular, beauty. Yet she must marry well because after the eventual death of her mother there will be no money left for her to care for her epileptic younger sister. So Louisa adopts her own persona. After years of practice she develops social skills, is attractive, interesting to men, warm but not too warm, sweet but not too sweet, and has learned to improve greatly upon what nature has given her in the beauty department. But she feels like a illusion.
Oh, how I love a romance that tickles my brain and not just my heart (and other parts of me). It`s not that this book isn`t romantic or hot - but it`s so very well written and cleverly thought out too that I loved it from page one. Of course, I`ve loved everything Sherry Thomas has written so that was no surprise.
Louise is in desperate need of a husband - she has four sisters but none of them can or will marry and one of them will need to be taken care of for the rest of her life. For the time being they live with their mother on her income but that income will disappear the moment Louise`s mother dies. Louise is not very beautiful, she does not have any money and even her heritage isn`s good enough to attract rich men. What she does have is determination and will. She prepares for her one season for years and acts the perfect demure country girl towards any man she meets.
(Un)fortunately she meets Felix, a very rich man with very huge mental scars. He plays the perfect gentleman to keep everyone at a distance but is intrigued by Louise and the way she can see through his act - just as he can see through hers.
The book is about trust - and it`s very hard to trust someone who lies and cheats ... and holds your heart in their hand. If you want to read a book about "perfect" love where they always treat each other nicely, then this is not the book for you (I suspect that this is not the author for you), but if you want a book that really explore the human mind and how we can hurt the people we love because we don`t love ourselves, then go ahead and buy this book.
Despite their scheming and acting, Louise and Felix are nice people. They are not selfish or evil but they act the way they do to protect themselves - which is quite understandable.
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