Mr. Cavendish I Presume by Julia Quinn
This is the companion book to The Lost Duke of Wyndham, taking place at the same time and sharing many scenes with its predecessor. Thomas Cavendish has been engaged to Amelia Willoughby since almost the day she was born, and politely ignoring her ever since. He plans to eventually marry (and pay attention to) her, but mostly he likes that having a fiancée saves him a lot of bother. Amelia, however, is tired of being politely ignored, and decides to stop putting up with it just as Thomas learns that he may not be the duke after all.
Mr. Cavendish, I Presume, fills in plotholes from The Lost Duke of Wyndham, but doesn’t really have a plot of it’s owned, and the shared plot is very much built around Grace and Jack. As a result, the book is split between slightly-altered retreading and built-up filler. I actually prefer Amelia to Grace, and Thomas comes across better than he did before (though his worst moments are even worse here) but they consistently feel like secondaries.
An interesting experiment, but not one that really works.
Mr. Cavendish, I Presume, fills in plotholes from The Lost Duke of Wyndham, but doesn’t really have a plot of it’s owned, and the shared plot is very much built around Grace and Jack. As a result, the book is split between slightly-altered retreading and built-up filler. I actually prefer Amelia to Grace, and Thomas comes across better than he did before (though his worst moments are even worse here) but they consistently feel like secondaries.
An interesting experiment, but not one that really works.