Hello,
everyone! Today I’ve finished a marvelous book: Darius, first in the Lonely
Lords series by Grace Burrowes <3 I’m so excited about it that I almost
couldn’t wait to get home from work to write all my thoughts down, lol.
This historical
romance takes place in 19th century London. The main character,
Darius Lindsay, is the spare son of an Earl and faces serious financial problems,
as his father is an ass. Darius earns his own money by whoring himself for
married and bored ladies, but we learn later that he doesn’t have sex with them,
just some other intimacies.
One day, Lord
William Longstreet, who knows about Darius means of living and wants to make
use of them, approaches him with a proposal: Lord Longstreet is a very old man
in need of an heir for his title, as he’s a Viscount, and he and his wife, Lady
Vivian, elected Darius to be the father. After long negotiations, Darius
accepts the scheme and meet Lady Vivian over a dinner in the Longstreet’s town
house.
Vivian is
the second wife of William, being the former company of his first late wife,
Lady Muriel. William married her off to protect her from her dreadful
stepfather, Thurgood, which had already sold Vivian’s older sister, Angela, to
the first man to pay him. Luckily, Angela’s husband was a good man and they had
a happy marriage. But, without a heir to William’s title, Vivian was in risk of
falling into Thurgood’s hands again, so she accepted her husband’s scheme and
chose Darius. Lucky her.
The couple
spent a month at Darius property, at Kent, and Darius turns Vivie’s world
upside down. Besides getting her pregnant, he also transformed her into a new
woman, capable of fending for herself as William’s hour approached. A Lioness,
as he defines it.
With this
huge secret, a forbidden love and many twisted turns of events, the book took
my breath away, as I couldn’t see an easy happy ending. And I was right, it was
damn complicated, lol. Darius isn’t a remarkable hero, neither is Vivie. What
really got my attention was the plot: it was so good and different from what I’m
used to with these kind of historical romances! It’s funny how they simply made
the reverse way of historical romance couples: first they were intimate, then
lovers, then strangers, then friends, then lovers again and the husband and
wife (no, it’s not a spoiler with this gender. The fun of it is to see how it’s
going to reach the happy end, not how is the end itself lol).
I highly
recommend it! It was worth of 5 stars at my Goodreads’
review (that is pretty much like this one).
That’s it!
Thanks for reading! Have you already heard about or read this book?
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