Week 49 Review: Capturing the Earl

From Goodreads:

The friendship of four young ladies has created an indestructible bond to protect one another from the perils of love and marriage...

After the demise of her friend's disastrous marriage, Mercedes Parsons isn't about to let the widowed Wallflower of West Lane, Lady Aurora Radcliff, undertake another perilous trip to the altar. At least, not before the bridegroom-to-be is thoroughly investigated. If only Mercy could stop her uncharacteristic daydreaming about Wesley Renshaw's charm, his intellect, his dashing good looks. After all, the earl has already set his sights on her best friend! She must keep her wits about her and avoid giving into temptation.

Wesley is both irritated and intrigued by the machinations of Mercy—He cannot let her cleverness and beauty distract him. He needs to marry her friend, Aurora, so he can reclaim his family's ancestral home. A wrong he has hoped to right his entire life. Besides, who is penniless spinster Mercedes Parsons to decide whom he can and cannot marry? Yet while he admires her unwavering loyalty to her friends, he decides it's high time the misguided woman had a dose of her own medicine. Two can play at this spying game. But they are both embarked on a dangerous charade. And it won't be merely Mercy's reputation at risk—or her heart on the line—as Wesley comes to the inescapable conclusion that he has found the right woman at exactly the wrong time. 

My Review:
This book was a really great read. It was pretty different from the previous book, there's no real bad guy, there's no real danger. But there is the tension that they are falling in love, but he needs to marry Aurora to get the final piece of his family's historical lands back. So that was a huge conflict in this book!

One thing that I really wonder about in historical books, is what would they think about the modern music that I'm listening to while reading their stories? This was particularity true in this book, because Mercy has such a passion and talent for music, she tears up multiple times over it. And I listen to our modern music, and wonder what she would think.

Honestly, at times Wesley really annoyed me. He kept thinking that he would marry Aurora, and that would be that. Even though she said that she was never going to marry again. And so I'm glad that he changed his mind, let love lead the way.

My only question is, is Aurora going to find love, are we going to get a 4th book in this series? Or is this the end of stories for the Wallflowers, finding their loves? I mean, I would love to have more, and I really hope that either Geb Arafa is happy, or he'll find happiness in a future book!

This was a really great read, and I can't wait to read more by A.S. Fenichel!

Author: A.S. Fenichel
Series: The Wallflowers of West Lane #3
Read: December 3rd, 2020
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing and this series, and it's a Historical Fiction 2020 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Expected Publication: January 26th 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars