Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love by Numbers, #2)

by Sarah MacLean

[Angie]

In Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord, Gabriel’s brother Nick has landed himself on the list of most eligible Lords in London. Women are throwing themselves at him left and right, and he wants no part of it. So when a friend asks him to find his missing sister, Nick jumps at the chance. When he thinks he may have found the girl, he winds up saving Isabel from being trampled by horses, she then invites him to appraise her statue collection. Little does Nick know, but the missing girl is staying with Isabel as she takes in girls who feel as if they have nowhere else to go.

Ten Ways to be Adored was definitely a fun read, but it was missing that extra something the first book had. I absolutely loved Isabel and her unconventional home, which she tries to keep secret from Nick. But hiding the fact that everyone who works there is a woman isn’t easy, and once Nick finds out that some of these ladies are hiding from the law, he can’t help but offer his protection! Isabel has been on her own for seven years though and is determined to save her home and these girls on her own, even if some of them are encouraging her to land herself the handsome lord. Sadly this set up doesn’t lend itself to anything too exciting, but I still found myself rooting for Isabel and Nick to make a true love match!

I like Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord. It did use one of my favorite tropes to force the couple together: stranded! So I very much enjoyed those parts! I do have to wonder what happened to Isabel’s statues though. She needed to money from their sale to fund repairs and clothes, but obviously marrying a lord made that unnecessary. Oh well!

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