Book 97 of my 2025 Reading Challenge
read from December 26 - 28
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
published 2022
Summary (via the book jacket)
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Never one to back down from a challenge, Kitty leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London Season.
The only thing she doesn't anticipate is Lord Radcliffe. The worldly Radcliffe sees Kitty for the mercenary fortune-hunter that she really is and is determined to thwart her plans at all costs, until their parrying takes a completely different turn...
My Opinion
2 stars
With books like these, you have to enjoy the journey because the ending is comfortably predictable. In this case, the journey made me uncomfortable because there were so many hijinks. I admit I know I have a low tolerance for hijinks so it's hard to thread the needle for me but there were too many diversions, some fairly serious, that didn't fully wrap up and it was too big a leap from 'hate' to 'love' in a very short amount of time for me.
I made it about 12 chapters in before giving up and reading the end. I then worked backwards so I did end up reading the whole book because I liked the dialogue. I think I would read this author again even though this particular book didn't work for me.
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