The Original Miss Honeyford (Love and Temptation Series, #1) By Marion Chesney
Another light and frothy Regency Romance by the author of Hamish MacBeth and Agatha Raisin Although the heroine starts out to espouse a hatred for the constraints of her time of womanhood she still acquiesces and goes to London to learn to be a proper lady and find a husband What I love about M. C Beaton s Regency efforts versus Georgette Heyer is that Beaton always manages to include some educational bit of history or historical customs of the time that I didn t know I enjoyed her very vivid and from my previous readings very accurate description of Almack s and its desperate attraction on the one hand and dreariness on the other I enjoyed this as a nice diversion 224 Absolutely delightful Rich characters teasing plot a little bit of blood and a HEA to remember 224 Another strong 3 stars Regency romance from Marion Chesney There was humour a few enjoyable banters only one big misunderstanding that was a good thing because sometimes there are too many misunderstandings 224 Another super entertaining book I accidentally read the second book in this Love Temptation series first and because I liked that one so much I knew I had to read the first I just recently discovered that Marion Chesney is actually the alias for M. C Beaton I loved the Agatha Raisin mystery series written by this author and read them all a while ago I was super excited to find out that she wrote other books under a different name I think there s actually a third name that she wrote under as well. If you love the Regency era and you adore Jane Austen these books are for you I describe them as light and frivolous Jane Austen esque romances Quick fun and ridiculous in the best way If you ve been reading too many heavy books with dense writing these books are a wonderful antidote to that type of reading slump I can t wait to finish this series and branch into her other series of Regency romancesand I never thought I would like romances at all Really happy that someone suggested these books to me 224 This was sweet and funny I love Marion Chesney her books are always enjoyable 224 
Miss Honaria Honeyford Honey to her friends is the son her father always wanted She can discuss politics ride hunt shoot swear and smoke as well as any man When a new beauty moved to their country village and all Honey s male pals pay court to Amy Wetherall Honey s father realizes the disservice he has done his daughter raising her as a boy SirEdmund sends Honey off to London to be brought out by her aunt and find a suitable husband to return home and help run the estate Along the way Honey rejects conventions and travels without a chaperon She makes the acquaintance of Lord Alistair Stewart an elegant lazy fop who has a habit of helping Honey out of dangerous predicaments Honey takes an instant dislike to Lord Alistair and he to her but neither can ignore the strange dreams and feelings the other arouses in them In London Honey struggles to obey her aunt who wishes to teach Honey how to behave like a real lady The handsome charming Lord Channington arrives on the scene and treats Honey with all the respect and admiration she desires Unbeknowst to Honey Lord Channington is a notorious seducer who ruins young ladies and he is intent on making Honey his next victim Honey must decide whether to accept Lord Channington s attentions or Lord Alistair s help and once again Lord Alistair must come to Honey s rescue Honey is one of the best literary heroines She is an intelligent pre feminist way ahead of her time I felt sorry for her as she struggled with the unfair rules for women She was able to stay true to herself and find happiness in the end I really enjoyed this novel 224 Light and sweet without the sometimes frighteningly toxic side characters that Chesney liked to include in some of her romances The h is naive and honorable and she deserves the happiness she gets I give this 3 and a 1 2 stars 224 Why do many traditional Regencys begin in the most charmingly humorous way only to lose that tone after a while The h H s antagonistic meet cute and battle of wits can be engaging for only a while before becoming banal and repetitive. 5 Our h Honey is the local good old chap and didn t really mind it riding hunting smoking cheroots talking politics till the lovely and feminine Miss Wetherall moves to the neighborhood Her male friends desert her and she realizes that she s not comfortably dressed but dowdily so and it s forcefully brought to her father s notice that he s been very very remiss in the upbringing of his beautiful and bright but motherless daughter So off to London it is. Or so she thinks Lord Alistair finds her charming in a silly and stuckup childish way but is impressed by her resourcefulness He s charmed despite himself but knows that she needs to adapt or will certainly drown in the London drawing rooms. She s draws the attention of an unconscionable rake The H tries to warn her off but she only becomes resolute as is the h s wont Actually she likes the H but is unsure that this confirmed bachelor would offer marriage and as she s promised her father that she ll find a husband so she lets herself be deluded by the om There s a mild attraction too One thing that she wish dos come true she manages to dethrone Miss Wetherall from the reigning beauty s title and shows her old admirers that she s than a good old chap so is entertaining that way. I was going to rate this book lower but for that late rousing into the kickass girl that she is I like it when Hs go all cujo on the bad guys But when the h do it themselves Bloody fantastic In case you are in need of adjectives for a h Hs then here you go Lord Alistair Stewart she wrote is abhorrant abominable acrimonious angry arrogant austere awkward barbarous bitter blustering boorish brutal bullying capricious captious choleric churlish clamorous cross currish detestable disagreeable disgusting dismal dreadful dry dull envious execrable fierce fretful furious grating gross growling gruff grumbling hard hearted hasty hateful hectoring horrid illiberal ill natured implacable inattentive incorrigible inflexible insolent intractable irascible jaundiced knavish loathsome malevolent malicious malignant nauseating nefarious noisome obstinate obstreperous odious opinionated oppressive outrageous overbearing peevish perplexing pervicacious perverse quarrelsome queer raging restless rigid rigorous roaring rough rude rugged saucy savage severe sharp shocking spiteful splenetic squeamish stern stubborn stupid sulky sullen surly suspicious tart teasing terrible testy tiresome tormenting touchy treacherous troublesome turbulent tyrannical uncomfortable ungovernable unpleasant unsuitable uppish vexatious violent waspish wrangling wrathful 224 Rating Four starsThis was a fun OTTP read with a madcap ending that was well a bit lampoonish Dare I admit that I really enjoyed it It s nice to have a heroine who is smart courageous and able to give a good set down and think quickly Honey was definitely that and Her youth and inexperience was the failing along with her ridiculous and emotionally stagnated aunt Lord Alistair proved to a be truly redeemable H and I was able to forgive him whenever he was a jerk due to his willingness to go above and beyond to save Honey Except did she really need him Read it and see 224 Not one of my favorites from M. C Everything happened very quickly with little substance I ve read books by her that had less than 200 pages before that had a lot depth than this I m actually surprised I finished it 224
| The Original Miss Honeyford (Love and Temptation Series, #1) By Marion Chesney |
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