(Long story as to why he’s absent-you’ll have to read the book to understand.) But he wants to see her-because, secretly, he’s sworn to her brother, Daniel, that he’ll keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn’t make a bad marriage while Daniel is out of the country. Naturally, following her lead, he declines. Though her aunt tries to cajole Honoria into inviting Marcus to the house party (after all, he’s an earl (again, IIRC-these details are a lot harder to remember when it’s from the audiobook version-young, handsome and, obviously, eligible), but when Honoria writes to tell him of the invitation, she reminds him how much he hates these kinds of social events and how awful it would be. She’s at a house party (her aunt’s house, IIRC), and the property just happens to be “surrounded” by Marcus’s estate. So Marcus has been around pretty much ever since Honoria can remember.Īs the story begins, mortified at the idea that she’s going to have to play in the infamous Smythe-Smith Musicale again this year, Honoria is determined that she will find someone to marry before the end of the season (which hasn’t quite started yet). Her older brother, Daniel, had a school friend, Marcus, whom he brought home on holidays because Marcus is an only child and he and his father didn’t really have much of a relationship. Lady Honoria Smythe-Smith is the youngest of a large family (and there’s the obsession with people having lots and lots and lots of babies again!). Not that it means much, except for my surprise that Colin was still unmarried (and, come to think of it, no mention was made of Lady Whistledown’s column, which should have still been going strong at this point).Īnyway, back to the book.
At first, I wasn’t quite sure where this first in the quartet fell in the Bridgerton timeline (I didn’t look at the previous books for date-stamps), and at first thought it might be between Eloise’s and Hyacinth’s books, as Gregory is still at university in this one-but then Colin shows up and is still unmarried, so it falls much earlier in the Bridgerton timeline than I originally thought. Why, oh, why, oh, why is Julia Quinn obsessed with the idea that a couple cannot have a happy ending without pregnancy/babies?Īfter enjoying Quinn’s Bridgerton series (though I did skip When He Was Wicked after two attempts and not being able to get into it), I decided to go ahead and jump right into the Smythe-Smith series. Goodreads bookshelves: audiobook, books-read-in-2014, hist-19th-c-romantic-victorian, historical-romance It’s Julia Quinn at her best, so you know the answer is. B) still miffed at being nicknamed “Bug” as a childĬ) not in love with her older brother’s best friendĬ) not in love with his best friend’s younger sisterī) survive a deadly fever and the world’s worst musical performance
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