I read this three months ago and for various reasons never wrote the review for it. Now I remember very little about it. I can see from the blurb that it’s a switched character plot, and I know I enjoyed the read and found it as funny as the others in this series, in a slapstick sort of way (which gets a bit wearing after a while), but I’m not going to reread it just to write the review, so this will have to do. If you liked the others in this series, you’ll like this one too.
As a reminder, here’s the blurb: Viscountess Mulholland is determined to see her goslings settled well but she has an abiding distaste for Town. A London season is most definitely out. Fortunately, her only and eldest son attends Oxford and is in a position to bring home eligible gentlemen. When he is pressed sufficiently.
Her eldest, Violet, is already wed to Lord Smythesdon after a bit of a rocky ride, including the obligatory broken bone. Rose, the second in line, positively despised Mr. Hamilton until he threw his napkin down. Then she hopped in his carriage.
Now it is Daisy’s turn and Chemsworth Hall’s intrepid butler is girding his loins. Everybody in the house is well aware of what Miss Daisy Granger seeks. He must be a tragic individual who is inclined to write gloomy and poignant poetry. Everything in this gentleman’s life will be darkness until he meets Miss Granger. She, and only she, will have the remarkable ability to cheer him. Mr. Smuckers really does not know where Henry Granger is to dig up a tragic poet who is amenable to being cheered.
Tristan Blackwood, Marquess of Hemmings, eldest son of the Duke of Kenilworth, has been fawned over all his life. It is the fate of a gentleman who will be a duke, as everybody wants something from him. That insight, discovered long ago, has prompted him to spend much time writing dark verse condemning the ways of the world and, in particular, the mendaciousness of women. When it is proposed to him that he can test that theory, he is on his way to Chemsworth Hall with his friend, Mr. Wendall, in tow.
One of the gentlemen will become a duke and one will become a baron with rather modest holdings. Which is which, though, and who will Daisy Granger choose?
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