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The Earl's Defiant Wallflower (2014)

by Erica Ridley(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

publisher

Intrepid Reads

series

The Dukes of War

review 1: This is book 1 in the Dukes of War series.Miss Grace Halton must find a husband that will let her take her dowry and go back to America to pay for the medicine that her mother desperately needs. Unfortunately, the man that she is attracted to needs her dowry just as bad as she does.Oliver York, the Earl of Carlisle, must marry an heiress to salvage his estates from the damage that his father did. As much as they fight it, Oliver and Grace can't stop their attraction for each other and find suitable spouses.What happens when they are caught in a compromising position?I love Erica Ridley's writing. The stories that I have read by her have been shorter than most, yet they pack a mighty punch. She draws you into their world and gets you invested in the H/H just as a longer sto... morery would. It takes a rare author to be able to pull this off.I loved reading about Grace and Oliver. From the first time they meet, they are drawn to each other and they know they can't marry the other. It's heartbreaking knowing that they are the perfect match for the other, yet it can't be.I'm definitely sold on this series and can't wait for the rest of the books to come out!!Thanks go to Intrepid Reads for a copy of the book in exchange of an honest review.
review 2: 'Ballroom Waterloo...it was as much a hell as the battlefield he'd escaped.' ____3 1/2 starsOliver York, the now Earl of Carlisle, inherits a title that has nothing more to recommend it than that it is. His dissolute father has driven the estate into the ground. The only way to keep a roof over his and his dependant's heads is to marry an heiress.He and his friends have returned from Napoleonic war. For some the damage is obvious, for others not.Oliver and his gallant friends, more battle scarred than any thing else are quite a menagerie. There is Captain Xavier Grey who has retreated into a listless amnesia or possibly we would say post traumatic stress disorder. He appears unable or doesn't want to communicate, but his friends take him around to the various ton happenings, invariably ensconcing him in the library. This of course feeds into the plot. Then there's the Yankee, Miss Grace Halton who desperately needs to marry, preferably someone wealthy, so that she can collect her small dowry and bring her ailing mother to England. Grace's wicked grandmother attempts to foil all correspondence between Grace and her mother. Indeed Grace is so closely guarded on the one hand and yet left to run the gauntlet of ton parties on the other that the disconnect is surreally outrageous. Basically Grace is thrown into the battleground of balls and parties with no protection. She's sniped at, given the cut, disdained by the young ladies and leered at by the dissolute roué's of the ton. How is she going to marry successfully and rescue her mother without the desired entree of family and breeding?Of course despite the fact that neither are suitable for each other, Grace and Oliver and we are aware of the electricity between them but their relationship is one that can never be.An easy fun read.A NetGalley ARC less

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