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The Wicked Wyckerly (2010)

by Patricia Rice(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

045123071X (ISBN13: 9780451230713)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Signet

series

Rebellious Sons

review 1: Fitz needs a wealthy wife to help him with his monumental debt and his crumbling estate. Abby lets Fitz and his wild daughter Penny have a roof over their heads because they were kicked off the coach in front of her house. Abby is an older single woman who takes care of her younger siblings after their parents deaths and it's not really looking for marriage. Unexpectedly, Abby receives an inheritance and has to get the children from their guardian. During this time in London love blooms and a new family of seven is made. Great read!!
review 2: This started off witty and bright, but so airy I had trouble sticking with it. It was like having a meal of nothing but cotton candy. Thankfully, not only did it get more substantial as it went on, it also got wonderfull... morey romantic.Abigail needs a husband to get custody of her young siblings; Fitz, the latest in a long line of wastrel Earls of Danecroft, needs a wife to look after his illegitimate daughter. Unfortunately, Fitz also needs a great deal of money to take care of the ravaged estate he’s inherited, so marriage between them is out of the question. If only they didn’t keep having these ill-timed feelings for each other.In most Regencies with impoverished heroes, the lack of money never seems to affect their lifestyle in any noticeable way. Here, Fitz is seriously cash-poor as well as in debt, sometimes lacking funds for basic necessities. As a younger son with nothing to do, he’s used his brilliant mathematical mind to become a professional gambler, and though he trusts in his own abilities, he’s horribly down on himself. An interest in bugs (which he's never been able to explore, having had no real education) often shows in his thoughts: himself he thinks of as a termite or a cockroach, while a potential heiress named Lady Anne, "was an attractive woman who would probably bite the head off her mate after intercourse." I loved Fitz because, despite his low self-esteem and seemingly insolvable problems, he doesn’t sit around brooding over his wrongs or try to escape his troubles, but just keeps plugging. Even before he meets Abby, he’s doing his best, but she inspires him even more:"[Abby] regarded him with eyes so round, he didn’t know whether she looked on him as an insect or hero. He knew which he was, but he rather hoped he could be her hero for just a little while.”And Abby does recognize his heroic qualities, seeing him as an "indomitable man who had fought to survive and succeeded... [she] saw his strength and determination, and wept that she could not have him."I found the story a bit rambling and repetitious, and though the witty tone is mostly excellent at creating a historical atmosphere, a few modern sounding phrases stood out like sore thumbs: "lighten up", "good luck with that." A mystery element ends anticlimactically and a subplot in which Fitz and Abby are manipulated by two other characters for a wager was tedious. (Which is annoying, because I bet those characters and their wager are a running theme in the series, which will likely end with their romance, as is the way of these things.)Still, I love Fitz and Abby together: their passion for each other is delightful and their strengths and weaknesses balance, making for a plausible happy ending. This isn’t one of those romances that makes you worry at the end; I can see them years down the road, happily popping out baby after baby and loving each other as much as always. less

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