āSome day, when you have the most to loseā¦Iāll take it all.ā
Jonah Armstrong, Earl of Haywood, and the Duke of Hadleigh were best friends until a scandal involving Hadleighās fiancĆ©e destroyed their friendship. Three years later, Jonah returns from the Crimea as a war hero and Londonās most eligible bachelor, setting the gossip afire and fanning Hadleighās long-simmering rage into an inferno. Hadleigh has not forgotten his old friendās betrayal, and now that Jonah has returned, he will take his revenge.
Lady Cecelia Randolph has loved Jonah Armstrong for as long as she can remember. The moment they share a passionate kiss, she dares to hope that he feels the same for her and that his attention is driven by more than his desire to taunt her brother or his desperation for her dowry. It isnāt until Hadleighās quest for vengeance nearly destroys her that she realizes that Jonah loves her enough to risk everything to protect her.
Title: | The Most to Lose |
Author: | Laura Landon |
Series: | n/a |
Pages: | 293 |
Category / Genre(s): | Historical |
Trope(s): | Second Chance Romance |
Point of View: | |
Location: | London, England |
Setting: | 1855 (Victorian) |
HEA: | āļø |
Release Date: | 19th July, 2012 |
Only okay
This book just didn’t hit the mark with me. Everything was just okay. The characters were okay. The plot was okay. The writing, fine. It just never elevated itself to something special that set itself apart from all the other romances I like to read.
I think that my main issue was with the lack of sensuality and sexual tension. I never felt that the two main characters really felt much for each other and even then, I couldn’t understand their motivations. Was Jonah really falling for Cecilia or was it all a ruse? We were told but weren’t shown so I didn’t really believe it.
Another little bugbear of mine is when two main characters have similar names (or at least names with the same initial). Hadleigh did this while Haywood did that – for some reason I can’t easily distinguish between them which draws me out of the story as I try and figure out what’s going on. That could just be a personal idiosyncrasy so I haven’t let this affect my rating overly much.
If you have this book and are happy with a sweet, uncomplicated Victorian romance story then it’s certainly not offensive. But if you’re looking for something a little bit, well, more, then I can’t really recommend this to you.
Laura Landon taught high school for ten years before leaving the classroom to open her own ice-cream shop. As much as she loved serving up sundaes and malts from behind the counter, she closed up shop after penning her first novel. Now she spends nearly every waking minute writing, guiding her heroes and heroines to find their happily ever afters.
She is the author of more than a dozen historical novels, including SILENT REVENGE, INTIMATE DECEPTION, and her newest Montlake Romance release, INTIMATE SURRENDER.
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