In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation Review

By Alexandra Vasti

Halifax Hellions Book 1

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧

Blurb

The Halifax Hellions are the most scandalous, outrageous, ungovernable ladies in London. From the day of their debut—in which Matilda smoked a cheroot and Margo tied a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue—they’ve turned the ton upside down. But when Matilda elopes with a dangerous aristocrat, Margo must stop her twin before this new misadventure becomes a permanent marriage. For help, Margo turns to her brother’s best friend—because if anyone can get them to Scotland in time, it’s starchy solicitor Henry Mortimer.

Henry Mortimer has precisely one secret in his otherwise buttoned-up life: he’s been in love with Margo for seven wonderful, agonizing years. When she turns up at his doorstep, soaked to the skin and desperate for his help, he cannot turn her down. A week alone in a carriage with the object of his desires an arm’s length away? Surely he can survive that. He hopes.

But the road to Scotland is paved with disasters—caves and crashes and the bloody rain that keeps forcing Henry to hold a damp, shivering, dreadfully tempting Margo in his arms. Only an unstoppable force could drag the truth of Henry’s affection from his lips. Unfortunately for him, Margo Halifax has yet to be stopped.

Genre: Historical Romance

Read if you Like:

🍒 Novellas

🍒 Brother's best friend

🍒 Road trip romance

🍒 He falls first

🍒 Pining

My Thoughts:

 I had heard nothing but amazing things about this one so my expectations were high. I already knew Alexandra Vasti could write but I was still completely blown away. I cannot describe how perfect every minute of this book is.

Margo is wonderfully reckless while also being sweet and caring and kind. Henry is so the opposite and is so spellbound by her. I loved them together. I would read a whole series of books about them!

 At the same time, this story is hilarious! Just ask my husband who I woke up by laughing so hard while he was sleeping. It was the purse cheese that got me. Also when the hero is so flustered he talks to inanimate objects in the first few chapters I know I am going to adore it.

Finally, this book is one of the sexiest things I have ever read. I have read a lot of books with steam in them and I have read a lot of books with longing but there was something about how Alexandra captures the combination of the two that is amazing.

🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧 - The audio narration is amazing! I was blown away by how Mhairi Morrison gave each character a different voice that was perfect for their characters. This audio is single narrator for a dual pov book, but I actually think it's better that way. The voices are so perfect I wouldn't have wanted someone else reading Henry's POV. Mhairi made Alexandra Vasti's already wonderful novella even better and I can't recommend it enough.

🌶️🌶️🌶️ - This novella has three spicy scenes and a fair amount of sexual tension. That might sound like a lot for a novella, but this book in no way lacks emotional depth or plot.

Thanks to Netgalley and Dreamscape Media for providing me with an ALC of this title. All opinions are my own.