Book Review: The Lady Most Likely
This book is a collaboration work between three Historical novalists specialized in Regency Era England; a genre that is one of my passions when I comes to writing. Moreover one of the authors happened to be one of my all time favorite’s authors; Julia Quinn. This is the first time I have read a single novel that would be written by three authors so I was excited when I received this in the mail and started to read it immediately; prior to me reading the book I have not read any spoilers, reviews or experts.
One of the main things that people often criticize about romance novels is that they are pretty predictable, in terms of characters and the garentee that the two main characters are going to end up together in the end. This is not the case in this book where at first I didn’t know which couple would end up together. I knew that Hugh was the main hero of the book seeing that it is centered around finding him a wife; I was also aware of Gwen’s character as being one of the main ones so I immediately thought that Hugh and Gwen would be the couple to end up together but the more I read the more I find that this was getting pretty confusing and unpredictable which is a good thing because it added a bit of mystery as to who will end up with Hugh. Will it be Gwen, the woman who the start of the novel solely focuses on? Or Kate? Or will it be Georgina, the childhood friend whom Hugh shown interest in in the beginning of the novel but faded away towards the middle?
The whole thing became such a mystery to me, adding to my excitement to see which woman would end up with which man; which I might add this novel has created some dramatic and interesting main and side characters that seem to fit right in.
even though my predictions about Gwen were completely false; I thought she and Hugh would be perfect together since they both don’t seem to like crowds but as I read to the found In the end of book, I found myself liking every couple that ended up together.
Characters:
I really liked Gwen, her shy personally really grew on me as a character and being paired up with Alec really added icing to the cake. Alec was one of my favorite male characters of this book, he is delightful as well as hilarious (Lake Scene) and speaking of that scene, it was to die for! Probably one of my favorite scenes of the book
In terms of my favorite couple, it was defiantly Gwen and Alec, followed by: Carolyn and her husband which are side characters yet their relationship is so sweet and loving that I found myself loving them from the start. Next would be Georgian and Hugh and lastly Kate and Neill.
Georgia is an adorable character, she is cute in her own way while also being mature like how I would expect her to be. She is very loyal to her late husband and did not forget him or was just a passing thought when she was being ‘courted’ by Hugh. One thing I did not like though was that she acted like a virgin more of a woman who knows the process.
My only other problem in this book was something that caught my attention at the beginning of the book; which was that Hugh trained Arabian horses for races. Now being from the Middle East I know that pure breed Arabians are generally not used in Derby races (which I assumed was the race he was talking about since it was never mentioned) but in fact suited to long races that require stamina, in which those races they don’t often are in a full gallop. This was perhaps my only problem with this book that I cant really get over but still it hasn’t affected my enjoyment of it.
Rating: 4.5/5