Wilde in Love by Eloisa James
Published: 31st October 2017
Publisher: Piatkus
Pages: 416
Available in Paperback and Kindle
Rating: 4/5
Blurb
Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks.Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Alaric escapes to his father's castle, but just as he grasps that he's not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very private, very witty, Miss Willa Ffynche.
Willa presents the façade of a serene young lady to the world. Her love of books and bawdy jokes is purely for the delight of her intimate friends. She wants nothing to do with a man whose private life is splashed over every newspaper.
Alaric has never met a woman he wanted for his own . . . until he meets Willa. He's never lost a battle.
But a spirited woman like Willa isn't going to make it easy . . .
Review
Wilde in Love in the first book in Eloisa James’ new series
surrounding the Wilde family. This is
the first book by Ms. James that I have read so wasn’t really sure what to
expect, what I found was a beautiful enchanting romance between two very
headstrong characters.
Lord Alaric Wilde has spent the last few years traveling the
world and engaging in daring and dangerous adventures, he has now returned home
a celebrity after writing about his adventures in a couple of books. At home he
finds himself surrounded by adoring women declaring their undying love for him
and falling at his feet. That is all except the beautiful Miss Willa Ffynche,
who can scarcely bring herself to even smile at Alaric. Never been one to
resist a challenge, Alaric is determined that Willa shall be his, however he
underestimates her and soon falls madly in love with her.
Willa Ffynche is a beautiful young orphan with her own
fortune, she has been living with her ward Mrs Gray and her best friend Lavinia
for the past few years. Willa and Lavinia are not your typical society girls
and have brains and beauty, a combination many men have found off-putting as
they want a docile wife. Both girls seem to resist the charms of handsome
Alaric when they first meet but even Willa struggles to control her feelings
around this man, something that has never happened to her before. Despite
rebuking him at every opportunity Alaric doesn’t give up on his quest for Willa
and eventually she begins to feel that this handsome adventurer might just be
the man for after all.
At first I struggled to get into this book, I can’t put my
finger on quite why, perhaps the number of characters being introduced or the
notion of people wearing wigs, this is still something that I can’t seem to get
my head round, which is probably a sign I need to read more of this genre.
However after a couple of chapters I was totally drawn into the budding romance
of Willa and Alaric. What starts out as two characters who seem to repel each
other soon turns into a passionate romance and the journey getting there was
full of witty conversations and minor incidents which all add to the magic of this
romance.
This was a great read with everything you want in a romance
novel and I’m really looking forward to the next book in the Wilde series.
Thank you to Piatkus for sending me a copy to review and
inviting me on this blog tour.
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