Series: The Spitfire Society #3
Pages: 248
Genre: Historical romance
After failing on the Marriage Mart, Jane Pemberton has two choices: submit to her parents’ edict to marry their boring neighbor or become a self-declared spinster and take up residence in the official headquarters of the Spitfire Society. It’s really no choice at all, and Jane is eager to embrace her newfound independence. She soon finds an unconscious viscount on her doorstep and nurses him back to health. When he offers to compensate her, she requests payment in the form of private instruction of a scandalous and intimate kind.
Having spiraled into a self-destructive abyss following the murder of his parents, Anthony, Viscount Colton, physically recovers under the care of an alluring spitfire. But it is her charm and flirtatiousness that soothes his soul and arouses his desire—until an extortion scheme forces him to face the sins of his past. Now, to save the woman who’s given him everything he lost and more, he’ll have to pay the ultimate price: his heart.
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Okay. Starting off with the things I absolutely loved in this book: the writing. It was incredible and the only reason I read this book until the last page.
And I liked Anthony. Mostly, at least. But his character was written poorly. I thought of him as weak and unsure of himself a lot of times. He did something only when someone else told him to do it.
And the things I did not like: Jane and the lack of consent in this book. Listen, consent is something I am very sensitive about and it goes both ways. Jane was horrible in that department. She was the one pursuing Anthony and she was relentless. She was constantly pushing him to sleep with her, even though he didn't want to. I can't help but think; what if it was the other way around? (Shaking my head here).
She even went after him when he left her house, wrote him letters and then, at a party, went after him to a room where they could finally be alone.
That didn't sit well with me. This book had so much potential and I'm truly disappointed. I'm giving it two stars only because the writing was exceptionally good. I also loved the kittens. But that's about it. It's a shame because this book had so much potential. But I would absolutely love to read something else from this author!
Darcy Burke is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, emotional historical and contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily ever after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations. Join her Reader Club at http://www.darcyburke.com/readerclub.
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, their two hilarious kids who seem to have inherited the writing gene, two Bengal cats and a third cat named after a fruit. In her “spare” time Darcy is a serial volunteer enrolled in a 12-step program where one learns to say “no,” but she keeps having to start over. Her happy places are Disneyland and Labor Day weekend at the Gorge.
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