Amanda
Written on Feb 25, 2015
My review of How to Marry a Marquis could easily be an ode to Lady Danbury, who is one of my favorite side characters EVER. --- No exaggeration. Lady Danbury, though she makes her...Read more
LADY DANBURY. I LOVE YOU SO.
My review of How to Marry a Marquis could easily be an ode to Lady Danbury, who is one of my favorite side characters EVER. --- No exaggeration. Lady Danbury, though she makes her introduction here, is in many of the Bridgerton and Smythe-Smith books. She is outspoken. She is crafty. She is everything I want to be when I grow up.
(Especially the lady in regency England part. Because that can happen!)
But what about James and Elizabeth? I suppose I should talk about them, since it's their book and all. Soooo. Lady Danbury is James's aunt, and thus, when he comes to investigate the *dun dun dun* BLACKMAILER, he meets Elizabeth, who's in desperate need of a husband so she can support her three siblings.
How to Marry a Marquis has even more glimmers of what I've come to love about JQ's books: family antics. Not only do you have James and Lady Danbury (LADY DANBURY!!!!), but you've also got Elizabeth and her three siblings. One scene features all of them (plus two characters from the previous book) and I won't lie, I was laughing. Out loud. Because FAMILY ANTICS.
Back to James and Elizabeth. Theirs was, for the most part, a sweet romance. Elizabeth is clumsy to an extreme, so you get lots of tension in the form of exquisite embarrassment. James takes more than a few bumps and bruises. The not sweet part of the romance had to do with James's deception. I'll just leave it at that -- once you get a few pages in, you'll figure it out.
No lie, I'm ready to reread ALL THE JQ now.
My review of How to Marry a Marquis could easily be an ode to Lady Danbury, who is one of my favorite side characters EVER. --- No exaggeration. Lady Danbury, though she makes her introduction here, is in many of the Bridgerton and Smythe-Smith books. She is outspoken. She is crafty. She is everything I want to be when I grow up.
(Especially the lady in regency England part. Because that can happen!)
But what about James and Elizabeth? I suppose I should talk about them, since it's their book and all. Soooo. Lady Danbury is James's aunt, and thus, when he comes to investigate the *dun dun dun* BLACKMAILER, he meets Elizabeth, who's in desperate need of a husband so she can support her three siblings.
How to Marry a Marquis has even more glimmers of what I've come to love about JQ's books: family antics. Not only do you have James and Lady Danbury (LADY DANBURY!!!!), but you've also got Elizabeth and her three siblings. One scene features all of them (plus two characters from the previous book) and I won't lie, I was laughing. Out loud. Because FAMILY ANTICS.
Back to James and Elizabeth. Theirs was, for the most part, a sweet romance. Elizabeth is clumsy to an extreme, so you get lots of tension in the form of exquisite embarrassment. James takes more than a few bumps and bruises. The not sweet part of the romance had to do with James's deception. I'll just leave it at that -- once you get a few pages in, you'll figure it out.
No lie, I'm ready to reread ALL THE JQ now.