A Pretend Match For The Viscount

Matchmade Marriages #2

by Laura Martin

Coming soon! A Pretend Match for the Viscount by Laura Martin will be available Aug 23, 2022.

Paperback

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Laura Martin was born and bred on the South Coast of England into a family of two loving parents and a spirited older sister. Books were a feature of her life from early on. One of her earliest memories involves sitting with the family on a rainy Sunday afternoon, listening to the exploits of a clumsy but lovable stuffed bear and his assorted cuddly friends. Laura's first ambition was to be a doctor, and in 2006 she went off to Guy's, King's and St Thomas's Medical School in London to study medicine. It was whilst she was earning her degree that she discovered her love of writing. In between ward rounds and lectures Laura would scribble down ideas to work on later that evening and dream of being an author. In 2012 Laura married her high school sweetheart, and together they settled down in Cambridgeshire. It was around this time that Laura started focussing on the Romance genre, and found what she had always suspected to be true: she was a romantic at heart. Laura now spends her time writing Historical Romances when not working as a doctor. In her spare moments Laura loves to lose herself in a book, and has been known to read from cover to cover in a day when the story is particularly gripping. She also loves to travel with her husband, especially enjoying visiting historical sites and far-flung shores.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eliza Stanley has been chosen as one of the debutantes to accompany Lady Mountjoy for the London season. She is excited to attend balls and indulge herself in all the delightful social activities of the season. However, the night of her first ball, she is tricked and then accosted by a man who tries to take advantage of her. Viscount Samuel Thannock not only gets rid of the man who accosted her, they are then obligated to pretend they are engaged in order to save Eliza's reputation.

Throughout this fake engagement, Eliza and Sam spend a lot of time together, neither of them taking it too seriously, until their feelings for each other start to grow. While Eliza is supported by Lady Mountjoy and the other debutantes in her budding relationship with the Viscount, the fact that both Eliza and especially Sam think they have nothing in common, keeps them from pushing the relationship too far. Until it is pushed too far. And then a negative person steps in to make sure they are never together.

I especially liked Eliza and Sam's day of ice skating and their visit to the orphanage.

[Georgina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked it until things didn't add up. 60% mark. DNF. Rhe author repeats the phrase "Most Elligible Bachelor" too frequently. Too many silly conflicts. I really wanted to like it. I've felt this way about a few of her other novels.

[Harlequin Books]

Historical Fiction, Sagas, Regency Romance
Miniseries
Matchmade Marriages (Book #2)

[Sam Atkinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read. Lady Mountjoy gets it right, again 😄