Book log: Jennifer Ashley -- Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage

[julesjones]

Book 74

Second of a series of romance novels about four brothers who are Scottish lords in Victorian Britain. I'd picked up the first one, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie, because the reviews made it sound like the sort of romance I'd enjoy, rather than fling against the wall. I liked that book well enough to promptly order the next. Lady Isabella and Lord Mac were significant supporting characters in the first book, wherein they had been legally separated for two or three years, but were clearly still in love with each other. This book is the story of how they work towards a reconciliation, but also shows how and why they had ended up living apart. It can be read as a standalone, but I think will work better if read after the first book, as you will go in understanding some of the family backstory that explains why Mac behaves the way he does.

I don't think this book is as strong as the first, but that was always going to be a difficult target to reach. I still thoroughly enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to being able to read the next book in the quartet.

LibraryThing entry

Comments

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

I'm yet to read the first in this series. Obviously I need to work harder at the book mountain.

[julesjones]

well, given that I've had this in my TBR pile for nearly three months before getting to it, I'm not making that much headway myself.