Title: The Most Eligible Viscount in London
Series: The Lords of London
Author: Ella Quinn
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 30, 2021
Publisher: Zebra
ASIN: B08CBMS1WK
Viscount Gavin Turley is convinced that love matches cause nothing but trouble. Still, after months of courting, he's fallen for Miss Georgie Featherton. He's passionate about her, in fact. But words of love are not an indulgence he will allow himself. When he presents Georgie with his marriage proposal, he will lead with his head—not his heart. His qualifications as a husband are excellent, after all. What could go wrong?
No sooner does Gavin kneel on one knee than Georgie's heart goes aflutter with joy. Finally, the proposal she longed for had arrived. Yet Gavin seemed to be listing his credentials for a business partnership, not a romantic union. Without a declaration of love, Georgie can only reject his offer—unless the ladies of the ton, and Georgie's grandmama, have anything to do with it. For sometimes it takes a wiser eye to see the love behind a guarded heart—and a clever scheme to bring it out of hiding...
My rating:
***ARC provided by publisher through NetGalley***
DNF @ 8%
Again I persevered to chapter 2, just to make sure the previous book wasn't a fluke. It wasn't. The experience was the same.
The first chapter was one long description of a marriage proposal gone wrong, which could prove to be an advantage. In another author's hand. This wasn't romantic, it wasn't humorous, it wasn't dramatic...It was the equivalent of beige.
While the first chapter was focused on the heroine's "experience" getting the "beige" excuse for the marriage proposal and her subsequent decision to abscond to the country (for no other reason than the "beige" proposal, it's not like the guy actually insulted or compromised her), the second chapter focused on the hero and started at the point of marriage proposal refusal (which happened in the middle of chapter 1).
Yet again, the jarring time-space switch, the lack of any exposition or solid description of either hero or heroine and/or their feelings, reasons for being in the story in the first place, the amateurish narrative style...It all put me off.
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