By Amalie Howard
Star rating: ★★★★☆
Blurb
Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke’s daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather excellent at arranging it.
Faced with an insolvent estate, the Duke of Greydon has no choice but to return to England in a final attempt to revive his family’s fortunes. He’s been gone for years, happy to have escaped his mother and the petty circles of the ton. To his dismay, not much has changed, including the beautiful and vexing heiress next door.
But when an accident of fate traps the friends-turned-enemies in an attic together, the explosive attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore and even harder to resist. They are total opposites and their lives don’t align in the slightest, but fate, the ultimate matchmaker, appears to have other plans . . .
Genre: Historical Romance
Read if you like:
🐈⬛ Rom-com
🐈⬛ Clueless movie
🐈⬛ Matchmaking heroines
🐈⬛ Childhood friends to lovers
🐈⬛ Mischievous kittens
My Thoughts:
I was a fan of Always Be My Duchess and I love Clueless so I knew I had to read this one! I really enjoyed Aspen and Vesper's story!
When the hero and heroine are childhood friends and then he sees her all grown up and falls for her I am always a fan! I also really enjoyed the clueless references though I did think the story gave Vesper a bit too much credit to truly be Cher. Vesper seems aware of her wealth and privilege in a way Cher is not. Vesper's journey is more about getting over worry about her reputation. That being said I would have liked to have seen both characters grow a bit more during the book. This story was more about admitting feelings than growing into them.
However, this book had some wonderful steamy scenes, a trouble-making kitten, and the setup to what sounds like it is going to be a really interesting enemies-to-lovers story in the next book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and if you are a fan of Clueless it's a must-read!
Thanks to Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for providing me with this title in order to do my review. All opinions are my own.
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