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A review by turophile
Mad About the Marquess by Elizabeth Essex
Did not finish book.
1. Mad About the Marquess, Elizabeth Essex (October 16, owned ebook) - DNF
This book had the potential to be fun – set in Scotland. The hero’s a reluctant newly elevated Marquess. The heroine is a spunky younger sister of someone he once courted. She’s trying to make the world a better place by stealing small items, selling them and using the proceeds to feed the poor.
The book opens when they encounter each other at a ball and she decides to steal his silver buttons. Conversations and slight flirtation ensues and he suspects that she’s the thief of his buttons and a snuff box.
This is where the story goes off the rails – he demands she returns the items. She denies the theft (and she’d already given the spoils to her servant so they weren’t on there). So he uses his size advantage to grope her in an effort to find the buttons. When he finds nothing, he’s apologetic – but I’m sorry it’s too late.
Maybe it’s that as I read this we’re dealing with a presidential candidate accused of groping women with impunity. Horrific stories of men groping and assaulting women and not receiving adequate punishment. Whatever it is, I’m just not up for a book that starts off like this. Ugh.
This book had the potential to be fun – set in Scotland. The hero’s a reluctant newly elevated Marquess. The heroine is a spunky younger sister of someone he once courted. She’s trying to make the world a better place by stealing small items, selling them and using the proceeds to feed the poor.
The book opens when they encounter each other at a ball and she decides to steal his silver buttons. Conversations and slight flirtation ensues and he suspects that she’s the thief of his buttons and a snuff box.
This is where the story goes off the rails – he demands she returns the items. She denies the theft (and she’d already given the spoils to her servant so they weren’t on there). So he uses his size advantage to grope her in an effort to find the buttons. When he finds nothing, he’s apologetic – but I’m sorry it’s too late.
Maybe it’s that as I read this we’re dealing with a presidential candidate accused of groping women with impunity. Horrific stories of men groping and assaulting women and not receiving adequate punishment. Whatever it is, I’m just not up for a book that starts off like this. Ugh.