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A review by thenia
The Lord Next Door by Gayle Callen
3.0
A story with an interesting premise that somehow failed to engage me as much as I expected.
Victoria and David had been writing to each other as children, but the familiarity one would have expected between people who share that kind of history, was mostly lacking.
For reasons of their own that have nothing to do with affection, the two decide to marry, but David is determined to keep living his life as he has been, consumed by his business and political efforts. Victoria on the other hand strives to become the perfect wife to him, feeling guilty about the secret she's withholding from him about the truth of her father's death, and goes out of her way to initiate his re-entry to society.
There is a slow burn between them as far as intimacy goes, as David follows her wishes and slowly familiarizes her, but all in all the two remain separate for the biggest part of the story and only solve their problems at the very end.
A little less than satisfying, yet with a few interesting elements, this is the first of three books in the series, which continues with [b:The Duke in Disguise|82213|The Duke in Disguise (Willow Pond, #2)|Gayle Callen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386920806s/82213.jpg|79385].
Victoria and David had been writing to each other as children, but the familiarity one would have expected between people who share that kind of history, was mostly lacking.
For reasons of their own that have nothing to do with affection, the two decide to marry, but David is determined to keep living his life as he has been, consumed by his business and political efforts. Victoria on the other hand strives to become the perfect wife to him, feeling guilty about the secret she's withholding from him about the truth of her father's death, and goes out of her way to initiate his re-entry to society.
There is a slow burn between them as far as intimacy goes, as David follows her wishes and slowly familiarizes her, but all in all the two remain separate for the biggest part of the story and only solve their problems at the very end.
A little less than satisfying, yet with a few interesting elements, this is the first of three books in the series, which continues with [b:The Duke in Disguise|82213|The Duke in Disguise (Willow Pond, #2)|Gayle Callen|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386920806s/82213.jpg|79385].