An Inconvenient Wife (Signet Regency Romance, 9484)
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An innocent lady pays the price for a rendezvous turned into mayhem
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Another one of those caught-in-the-act forced marriage books. Only here Lady Pamela is an innocent victim of circumstance and Monroyal (Marquess), a great debaucher is not. She is simply at the wrong place (& woman for that matter) at the wrong time. She is a spinster blue-stocking and he a cynical rake....blah..blah..blah (insert cliches here). So even thought they HATE each other, they are forced to wed. And the lovely hero, of course, dumps her at some minor estate of his, but fate soon brings them together.
This book would have been down right boring and extremely repetitive (this plot is beyond overdone) except for Oliver's writing -simply superb in this genre. I truly feel she captures the essence of the regency period (at least to my limited knowledge) and infuses it with a fresh perspective. This is not your average reformed rake book, the hero does not become a lovesick swan at the end. Rather he is more like a *real* rake would be. And Pamela is a true bluestocking too. Luckily Oliver didn't turn her into some diamond of the first water or a newly emerged nympho. Both characters bent just enough to make their falling in love to be believable.
The lack of five stars is merely because I wanted a bit more at the ending. And the book could have used a *full* love scene -not a smattering. Other than that its darn good reading!
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