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Never Entice An Earl (2014)

by Lily Dalton(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1455523968 (ISBN13: 9781455523962)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Forever

series

One Scandalous Season

review 1: Lily Dalton’s second in the Scandalous Season series delivers again. After her fantastic Never Desire a Duke, Dalton continues to produce a great romance that sucks me right in. The heroine, Daphne Bevington, masquerades as her maid in an attempt to right a wrong. In her pursuit to help her maid, Daphne meets the man of her dreams, Cormack Northmore. The story centers on whether these two can find happiness when Cormack is promised to another while Daphne vows never to marry. Both have believable reasons for their actions. The author’s voice is perfect and in my opinion, keeps getting better. I can’t wait for the next in the series.
review 2: After loving Never Desire a Duke I was so excited to read Never Entice an Earl and I'm happy to say that it live... mored up to expectations. However, when I first started reading I wasn't sure if that would be the case. The beginning of the story, where we learn about Cormack's time in India, his sister's scandal, Daphne's friendship with her maid Kate, Kate's family's debt, and how Daphne schemes to help Kate really dragged for me. It felt like a lot of background and I just wanted to be through the background and onto the story. It was like Cormack and Daphne would never meet.But then, under very scandalous circumstances, they do meet and it was great. Their connection is immediate, but in a very believable way and the connection between them was steamy! Even though Cormack thinks Daphne is her lady's maid he, a wealthy merchant who is also a newly discovered peer, immediately takes a liking to her, but in a classy way, not in a rich guy taking advantage of a servant way, which immediately endeared me to him. Eventually Cormack discovers that Daphne is not in fact a lady's maid, she's one of the season's most sought after debutantes and then things got a little less steamy. Cormack is determined to find the peer who scandalized his sister and he realizes Daphne, if he holds her scandal of her head, can help him. Part of me was disappointed that Daphne and Cormack's relationship took a more contentious turn, but it was also fun to read about them arguing.Like Never Desire a Duke my biggest issue with this book was questions I had about some of the things that happen are fully historically accurate. Like Daphne being so close to her maid and doing something so dangerous for her and Daphne and her sister having such freedom. But, in the end, those things are made up for by a really stellar story and great characters. If you're someone who's really concerned about historical accuracy though you might be bothered. Also, like Never Desire a Duke, there are some coincidences that arise towards the end of the story that were very convenient and had me shaking my head a bit, but my love of the rest of the story pretty much allowed me to ignore them.Bottom Line: Never Entice an Earl is another winner from Lily Dalton, who is quickly becoming one of my favorite historical romance authors. Cormack and Daphne are both great characters and their story was fun, steamy, and interesting. There were also great peeks at Sophia and Vane from Never Desire a Duke. I can't wait for the next book in this series, Never Surrender to a Scoundrel, which is Clarissa's story and comes out in winter 2015 (so far away!).I received an electronic review copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley (thank you!). All opinions are my own. less

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