The Lady Most Likely... by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway

The Lady Most Likely... (Lady Most, #1)

by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway

Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife - so his sister hands him a list of the very best young ladies on the market. And then, because he refuses to tear himself away from the stables where he trains Arabian racehorses, she invites all those ladies to a house party, along with some other bachelors, of course.

So who will Hugh choose? The Botticelli-esque, enchanting Gwendolyn? The outspoken, delightful Katherine? If he doesn't work fast, he'll lose those ladies to his closest friends, and then where will he look for a wife? Perhaps, just perhaps, toward a lady who's not on a market at all, and would require a great deal of persuading . . .

Reviewed by Amanda on

4 of 5 stars

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Even though this says "a novel in three parts" -- A NOVEL, AMANDA, A SINGLE NOVEL -- I somehow assumed it would be three novellas. Proving once again that readers are terrible readers. My defense, if I'm allowed one, is that I didn't read the synopsis.

Had I done that, maybe I would have known.

But not that any of it matters, because I enjoyed the way the book played out. I picked it up because if it says JQ, I'll read it, though I was looking forward to "testing out" new authors (probably why I wanted novellas). Alas, that's not how the book worked.

It's fluid. A NOVEL IN THREE PARTS, if you will. Truth in advertising is nice, isn't?

Still, I liked the shortness of the stories -- ahem parts of the novel -- and never thought it fell victim to what a lot of romance novellas do: lack of believability. It was grand fun!

True, some of the stories never quite went into a lot of depth where some would have been nice (Alec's relationship with his sister, Georgie's issue with death [can I just say? I don't think Georgie's late husband necessarily enjoyed women]), but sometimes readers want more detail than is necessary to complete the story.

Definitely will be seeking out the other "Lady Most..." novel. (A NOVEL, A SINGLE NOVEL, AMANDA.)

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