A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin is $1.99! This one was mentioned in a previous Hide Your Wallet, though we don’t have a formal review. Did any of you read it? What did you think?
A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love…
Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin.
Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season.
Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel—but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and ingenuity, she knows that risk is just part of the game.
The only thing she doesn’t anticipate is Lord Radcliffe. The worldly Radcliffe sees Kitty for the mercenary fortune-hunter that she really is and is determined to scotch her plans at all costs, until their parrying takes a completely different turn…
This is a frothy pleasure, full of brilliant repartee and enticing wit—one that readers will find an irresistible delight.
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Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain is $1.99! This romance made a lot of “Best of” lists but I’ve heard little about it. Did any of you catch the movie adaptation?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an arrogant bachelor insistent on a wife who meets the strictest of requirements–deserves his comeuppance.
The Honourable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. As the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, he’s determined to avoid the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. But after years of searching, he’s beginning to despair of ever finding this paragon. Until Selina Dalton arrives in town.
Selina, a vicar’s daughter of limited means and a stranger to high society, is thrilled when her friend Julia Thistlewaite invites her to London, until she learns it’s all part of a plot to exact revenge on Mr. Malcolm. Selina is reluctant to participate in Julia’s scheme, especially after meeting the irresistible Mr. Malcolm, who appears to be very different from the arrogant scoundrel of Julia’s description.
But when Mr. Malcolm begins judging Selina against his unattainable standards, Selina decides that she has some qualifications of her own. And if he is to meet them he must reveal the real man behind…Mr. Malcolm’s List.
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Love is a Rogue by Lenora Bell is $1.99! This is book one in the Wallflowers vs. Rogues series. Carrie reviewed this one and gave it B-:
As a comfort read, I found this book to be heartwarming, funny, and just generally comforting. Rather like a good cup of tea.
Once upon a time in Mayfair, a group of wallflowers formed a secret society with goals that had absolutely nothing to do with matrimony. Their most troublesome obstacle? Rogues!
They call her Beastly Beatrice.
Wallflower Lady Beatrice Bentley longs to remain in the wilds of Cornwall to complete her etymological dictionary. Too bad her brother’s Gothic mansion is under renovation. How can she work with an annoyingly arrogant and too-handsome rogue swinging a hammer nearby?
Rogue. Scoundrel. Call him anything you like as long as you pay him.
Navy man Stamford Wright is leaving England soon, and renovating Thornhill House is just a job. It’s not about the duke’s bookish sister or her fiery copper hair. Or the etymology lessons the prim-yet-alluring lady insists on giving him. Or the forbidden things he’d love to teach her.
They say never mix business with pleasure. But when Beatrice and Ford aren’t arguing, they’re kissing.
Sometimes, temptation proves too strong to resist…even if the cost is a heart.
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RECOMMENDED: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is $2.99! Sarah reviewed this book and gave it an A-:
The TL;DR: this book is wonderful. It’s so much empathy and understanding and emotion layered into narrative form I can’t even tell you.
A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan…
But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words… And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?
Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
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1000% recommend Fangirl – it is such a great book on so many levels, and so well written.
Loved “A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting” by Sophie Irwin. Well-written in terms of correct Regency language (no 21st C slips!) and escapist reading at its best. I also enjoyed her other book “A Lady’s Guide to Scandal”.
Aww, I love Rainbow Rowell! And I quite enjoyed A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting as well; it’s steamless, which could make it more or less appealing. Not a big fan of Mr. Malcolm’s List, though — skip the book and watch the (charming) movie adaptation instead!
Another who loved A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting. It’s like Heyer in the best way – all the accuracy, romance, well written… with none of the worry that you’re about to be confronted by something horrifically problematic.
Mr Malcolm’s List movie adaptation is very pleasing to the eye, if you catch my drift.
“Mr. Malcolm’s List” was very good for someone who is all “I like Bridgerton and want something that feels modern like that but without all the sex scenes”. It’s the kind of movie you can put on for a young person (tween or teen) in your life who has seen all of the Jane Austen adaptations and is wondering what to watch next. I did like the movie a lot; it was very sweet and more diverse than the little I read of the book.
I read Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting and really enjoyed it – but it has So Much Plot but it’s so engagingly written and rattles along so fast that you don’t really notice that it’s got so much going on until after it’s finished and you try to write a plot summary!
I didn’t enjoy the second book as much – the heroine is a weird mix of totally naive and incredibly foolhardy but mostly because the two options for the heroine to chose from are both… not massively satisfactory – I found my self hoping for a late arriving third option!
Didn’t see the MR. MALCOLM’S LIST movie but thought the book was just meh. I couldn’t understand why it was considered so terrible that he had a list of qualities he hoped for in a wife – don’t we all have such a list? Ours may be more general (kind, good sense of humor, whatever) and not quite so specific, but in and of itself the existence of such a list and the assumption that he would be shamed and everyone else horrified about it made a poor excuse for a plot.
I LOVED A Ladys Guide to Fortune hunting! As said earlier,its like Heyer without the racism. It was so good. The second book was a let down for me though. I detested the love triangle and felt both men deserved better eventually!