A
Pennyroyal Green Series Novel
Avon
October
30th, 2012
978-0-06-211802-8
Historical
Romance
Mass
Market Paperback
Reviewed
by Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com)
Obtained
by Publisher
For
Countess Evie Duggan being notorious is hard to deal with. She went from being
a Covent Garden to courtesan to Countess and the Ton hasn’t forgiven her for
her very short marriage. So when she finds herself in the midst of a scandal
that has gossips eager to spread the news, no matter if it is true or not, and
Evie escapes to Pennroyal Green, where she has a manor house.
In
Pennyroyal Green, Vicar Adam Sylvaine is a man with a face of an angel and sexy
as sin. He tries to resist the wildness of the Eversea blood that courses
through him but even he finds himself tempted when Evie takes up residency at
the Manor. Can these two find a way to face their pasts and see if they have a
future together? For when two hearts come together, pleasure and love are bound
to follow.
I
really have enjoyed past Pennyroyal Green novels in the past but when I started
this latest one, I was a little unsettled on the whole Vicar character. It felt
to me a little like the author was pushing the boundaries to see what her
readers would enjoy. The book as a whole is fun, entertaining read and once I
got past the part of Adam being a man of the cloth, I found myself enjoying
their story. The author has a way of writing that has readers experiencing the
emotions alongside the characters. The storyline flowed well though it did get
stagnate at times and I was flipping pages to see if it would speed up again.
What
didn’t work for me was how Evie and Adam reacted to one another at times. There
are parts of the book where Evie is like a doormat and lets Adam treat her like
a child among other things that really made me shake my head. Evie, in the
beginning, was smart, strong and determined and for her to let Adam do t his
was not enjoyable in my opinion. I would have smacked that man silly if he ever
did that to me. Adam also had moments where it just wasn’t believable. I read a
few of the past Pennyroyal Green books and those characters are ones I would
expect the bad boy antics from the other Eversea characters not good boy next
door, Adam and that threw me off the
story at times. Especially when Adam would act like the bad boy his cousins are
and it felt like he was going against his character. The secondary characters
kept the story moving nicely and were well written.
A
NORTORIOUS COUNTESS CONFESSES is a nice addition to the Pennyroyal Green
series but not my favorite. If you want to check this author out I would check
out the other books in the series first and enjoy those. This one just fell a
bit flat to me.
This
is an objective review and not an endorsement
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