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An Earl to Remember by Stacy Reid
4.0
3.5 rounded to 4 stars. I really like Stacy Reid’s work, but this one wasn’t my favorite book of hers. What I liked: a well-done amnesia plot, which is rare in historical romance; the humor—the number of times Daniel is chased by an animal cracked me up; Daniel’s relationship with Georgie’s sisters; Georgie’s relationship with her sisters; Daniel’s transformation; Georgie’s independence.
What bothered me: at times, some of the sex scenes came out of nowhere or felt over-the-top. It was hard for me to believe that Georgie—a gently-reared country girl whose mother died several years earlier—had the sexual knowledge and comfort with sex (and sexual explicitness) implied in some of these scenes.
Some plot points also just didn’t add up for me: she has never traveled and has little money, so how is she cooking with spices that were unusual (and thus expensive) for their time? Why is Daniel spending so much money before he even knows who he is—wouldn’t he have saved some of it to make it last? How did no one in the town connect Mr. Stannis—the man who washes ashore with amnesia—to the missing Earl of Stannis, who fell off a yacht, especially when his disappearance was in all the papers AND Daniel posted a notice about himself as Mr. Stannis in said papers? I get that HR is in some sense a fantasy genre—it’s why I love the genre—but I can only suspend disbelief so much.
I’m glad I read the book and would recommend to others, but this won’t go down as one of my favorites by Stacy Reid.
What bothered me: at times, some of the sex scenes came out of nowhere or felt over-the-top. It was hard for me to believe that Georgie—a gently-reared country girl whose mother died several years earlier—had the sexual knowledge and comfort with sex (and sexual explicitness) implied in some of these scenes.
Some plot points also just didn’t add up for me: she has never traveled and has little money, so how is she cooking with spices that were unusual (and thus expensive) for their time? Why is Daniel spending so much money before he even knows who he is—wouldn’t he have saved some of it to make it last? How did no one in the town connect Mr. Stannis—the man who washes ashore with amnesia—to the missing Earl of Stannis, who fell off a yacht, especially when his disappearance was in all the papers AND Daniel posted a notice about himself as Mr. Stannis in said papers? I get that HR is in some sense a fantasy genre—it’s why I love the genre—but I can only suspend disbelief so much.
I’m glad I read the book and would recommend to others, but this won’t go down as one of my favorites by Stacy Reid.