One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
by:
Sarah MacLean (author)
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . odd The brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiance and living out her days...
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One Good Earl Deserves a Lover Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . odd The brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiance and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two weeks to experience all the rest--fourteen days to ... Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749957193 (0749957190)
Publish date: January 29th 2013
Publisher: Piatkus
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: The Rules of Scoundrels (#2)
Borrows the hero, surprise twist, tragic backstory and all from another of her own books.
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover continues Sarah MacLean's series about a group of scoundrels who run a London casino--whoops, I mean a gaming hell--and fall in love with appropriately exasperating women (because if they didn't exasperate the hero then there'd be no plot). The hero is Cross, an earl...
Book two had similar tendencies towards the emotional roller coaster that book one had. It was the whole doomed-lovers-because-they-are-promised-to-another scenario and how can they possibly thwart their cruel fate to be separated. It was enjoyable, but I liked book one better. With that said, this ...
How did I not rate this book? I read it earlier this year and was not exactly overcome with joy. I think Sarah MacLean can write a light-hearted story well. She is witty and her stories have a lightness to it, for the lack of a better word. It is not her writing that I did not take a liking to but r...
This historical romance had a good premise but the majority of the book was characters thoughts. I struggled to keep reading, started skipping big chunks, read a little near the end then gave up. The basic story could have been told in 100 pages or less. Lady Philippa asks gaming hell owner Cross...