ARC Review: A Maiden to Remember (Love’s Addiction #3) by Marie Higgins
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Series: Love’s Addiction #3
Author: Marie Higgins
Published June 27th 2023 by Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.
Goodreads Synopsis
Convincing a rogue to wed comes with a high price.
Ellie Middleton has exactly one month to find a husband. If she doesn’t, her father will betroth her to a vile man. Although her heart still belongs to the soldier who died in the war, she is willing to enter a loveless marriage. Out of options, Ellie does the unthinkable when she runs into her brother’s friend, Vincent Wallace, the Earl of Trenton, and boldly makes him a proposal of marriage in name only. Will the rogue accept the bargain she is offered?
Vincent Wallace has no desire to marry and tie himself to one woman. However, he doesn’t like the idea of Ellie settling for just anyone, either. He can’t get her off his mind, and he desires her more than any women he’s ever known.
But when he is threatened to stay away from Ellie or die, Vincent doesn’t know whether to release her and allow her to be happy or fight for the woman he has fallen in love with.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
Lady Eleanor Middleton lost her heart when her fiancee was killed in battle three years ago, and has refused to entertain the idea of marrying ever since. Though she may be the daughter of a duke, she can't get away with spinsterhood forever, and has been told she must find a husband within the month, or she'll be forced to marry her stepmother's cruel nephew, Lord Stone. Ellie needs to find a way out, and quick, and does something she could never imagine - proposition her brother's best friend, Vincent, Lord Trenton, for a marriage in name only. He needs a rich wife, and she needs a husband quickly - a match made in heaven, right? Well, when feelings start to bloom between the two, and they struggle to stop kissing each other all the time, it may not be as plain sailing as they imagined.
I honestly felt like the Trenton we meet in this book is the complete opposite to that in book 1. He's had a complete personality transplant, and though it is for the better, it's hard to really see how the books in this series actually are linked together. Vincent and Ellie were an okay couple, but nothing really stood out for me to make them special. They definitely had chemistry, but some parts of the book felt forced. It was also a little farcical the number of different impediments between the pair that appeared. It was as if the author needed to pad out the story a bit more, and get the word count up, which I didn't like. I found myself turning off from the book at times, and ended up putting it down on more than one occasion, when normally I would be able to finish a book like this in one sitting. I'm glad it was the last in the series.
Dates Read:
August 28-31, 2023
Rating
3 Stars
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