Confessions of Love (Entangled Scandalous)

by Melissa Blue

[Angie]

I received an ARC through NetGalley.

Confessions of Love is full of treason, betrayal, espionage and ravishing! Well, there's not enough ravishing for my liking, but it is there. Lindsay's family is on their way to the poor house thanks to bad business investments. Their name has also been tarnished thanks to being linked to treasonous events. Events which got her brother killed. Now her father is on his death bed, leaving it up to Lindsay to marry well and save her mother and sisters from becoming destitute. She's currently (kind of) engaged to a much older man, but then her ex-fiance and love of her life reappears and shoots him at a ball. Lindsay is soon swept up in dangerous plots and thrust back into her lover's arms.

I really love enemies to lovers romances, but Confessions of Love does one better: lovers to enemies to lovers! Lindsay believes that Jonathan was involved in her brother's murder as well as the reason her family's finances are dwindling. Two years later and she's grown to hate the man she once loved, but now he's back and he needs her help to clear his name as well as her brother's. Lindsay is bombarded with a slew of new information, most of it conflicting with that she thought she knew, and now the only person she can trust is the man who broke her heart. Of course, she agrees to help and they fall back in love. They have two steamy scenes together, but it wasn't enough. One thing I absolutely love about Historical Romances is the tension! The hero and heroine always want each other, get caught up, and then stop for propriety's sake, but eventually succumb to their passions. Well, there was one scene of lusting and stopping, soon to be followed by the ravishing. I wish a scene of Jonathan proving that he can "make love without mussing [her] hair" had been included.

I quite liked Confessions of Love. It was exciting and dangerous! There were lots of twists along the way, which made it a little confusing, but I still enjoyed it. I did like the mystery plot better than the romance, which was a shame. Lindsay spent too much time telling Jonathan that he can't provide for her family even after he tells her several times that he can. I did like how loyal she was to her family, but that point seemed very dragged out. However, she really shines during the investigation. Lindsay is no damsel in distress and almost single handled figures out exactly what's been going on right under her family's noses. So if you're looking for a quick Historical Romantic Suspense that is light on the romance and heavier on the suspense, I'd recommend Confessions of Love.

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