The Earl Inconvenient Wife Marriage by Scandal Book 1 edition by Ruth Ann Nordin Romance eBooks
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Nathaniel Buford, Earl of Roderick, doesn't want a wife, but his brother died, passing on the title of earl to him. Now he is bound by duty to get an heir. Unfortunately, to get the heir, he must find a wife. As luck would have it, he gets caught in a scandalous situation not of his doing, and the next thing he knows, he's married...and to a lady whose family is reported to desire money above all else.
Miss Claire Lowell wanted to get married. But she never intended to marry a gentleman who felt trapped into it, and she certainly never thought her family would have a hand in the scandal that forced Lord Roderick's hand in marriage. Can love find a way to thrive under such conditions or will her father's eagerness to see her married off to an earl condemn her to a loveless marriage?
*This is Book 1 in the Marriage by Scandal Series.
Marriage by Scandal Series
Book 1 The Earl's Inconvenient Wife
Book 2 A Most Unsuitable Earl
Book 3 His Reluctant Lady
Book 4 The Earl's Scandalous Wife
The Earl Inconvenient Wife Marriage by Scandal Book 1 edition by Ruth Ann Nordin Romance eBooks
Incorrect for the period on so many levels, from fathers rushing around ballrooms procuring eligible gentlemen to introduce to their daughters, to said daughters discussing their husbands whereabouts, in a confidential way with his servants. Possibly because our heroine was childish, petulant and unfortunately, unintelligent. Our hero is weak, unsure, undignified, and idiotic. Some of the dialogue was really witty, and good enough to hope for more of that smooth sophistication. Only it deteriorated back into the normal stilted, trite, awkward and unbelievable pattern of speech. It was decidedly modern, right down to asking, "are you kidding me?" Kidding? Sisters did not spend a fortune for themselves on their brother-in-law's account in those days. Not sure they would these days either! Important details were ignored, such as no mention being made of a second carriage or her maid, when travelling to the earl's estate, yet she miraculously appears there. I got to "rolling my eyes," each of the many times, someone did so on the pages. The use of "the big oaf" to describe her husband became repetitively irritating. An earl forcing his errant ward, to go from Harrow to becoming a stable boy, to teach him responsibility, became a bit much for me. As the errant ward persuaded the errant countess to flee the two days back to London on horseback, dressed as a boy, with no money, I was beyond caring about any of these unattractive people. I gave up, having ploughed through 59% of this tedious book.Product details
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The Earl Inconvenient Wife Marriage by Scandal Book 1 edition by Ruth Ann Nordin Romance eBooks Reviews
This. Is. Awful. The main characters are flat, cardboard cutouts of better-written Regency Romance novels. The main character is childish, silly, and a complete idiot when it gets right down to the matter. The only admirable aspect about the leading lady is that she loves her family despite how wretched they are! Unfortunately, she has no backbone or intelligence to help her along.
The hero is just as bad. Nordin tries for the mysterious, brooding man and ends up with a churlish boy instead. Not exactly what a reader wants.
The best character in the novel is the crippled best friend, and of course nothing interesting happens with him.
If you like pointless, meandering writing, poorly considered plot, and lukewarm characters in a vaguely historic and entirely modern tale, then this is the story for you.
I hope Nordin's other books aren't as completely wretched as "The Earl's Incovenient Wife".
Wanted to like it but just couldn't, first off there are obvious editing mistakes, it was not very realistic to the era, the characters were not enjoyable or lovable, and too many repeats, eye rolls, groans, whining and bringing up the same thing over and over. I only finished the book because I was hoping for it to get better but at the same time knew it wouldn't because of how far in I was and how little was left. In fact it got boring to the point that I was skipping paragraphs just to be done with it. Was that chapter with the sex scene written out the way it was needed ... no, waste of time and just for filler space and rating grabbers. If I want to read porn then I would get a book related to porn, no need for it in regular books.
Even if it is free I can not and will not recommend this book to anyone. I value friendship too much for that.
I have several of Ms. Nordin's books and enjoyed them as the light series-style romances they are. This one is a disaster, though. I can tolerate some deviation from period accuracy in historical romances but this book did not come close to accuracy.
The language was too modern overall, and there were modern slang phrases used. In addition, the heroine borrowed mystery books from the butler. There were no mystery books until later in the nineteenth century when Poe penned the first ones. It wouldn't have been any problem to have the heroine reading period popular fiction. The bare minimum of research would have given her the names of authors such as Jane Austen. As well, the protagonists' interactions with the servants were totally out of character and there was way too much familiarity. Relations with a very few trusted servants might be somewhat relaxed, but even at that, there was a line not crossed.
Another major problem was the hero paying his steward's debts. Firstly, aristocrats would be unlikely to be wagering or extending credit to the lower orders to the extent indicated. They might wager in low dives but why would they extend credit to a lower class, propertyless salaried employee? There would be no hope of getting the money. Secondly, it is not believable that someone would contact the aristocratic employer to settle his employee's debt. Besides, no aristocrat would rush around collecting and settling his employee's numerous debts, especially an employee who embezzled from his estate. It was impossible to suspend disbelief for that clunker.
The heroine's sister was extremely unlikeable and the heroine came across as lacking any backbone for allowing her sister to go on a shopping orgy with the hero's accounts. What loving sister basically says, "Oh good, you are rich now so I can buy whatever I want."? What idiot sister allows it?
The hero and the heroine came across a very immature, with their arguing in front of servants, involving servants in their disagreements, their pouting and posturing and general lack of sense. What hero plays cards when he doesn't want to, just because the villain he dislikes anyway, Insists upon it? What hero drinks several glasses of wine that he doesn't want, simply because the same villain insists? I like my heroes to be more alpha than that. My idea of a hero would have told the villain what he could do with himself, rather than acquiesce. In fact, he wouldn't have been there discussing settling a servant's debt in the first place.
I really hated this book. It had enormous potential, with the theme of a forced marriage and misunderstanding. I was looking forward to reading it and was very disappointed. I don't recommend it to anyone. I do recommend trying some of the author's other books. She has written some very enjoyable books, so don't be put off by this one. My criticism is specific to this book and the author does write very well in other books.
Incorrect for the period on so many levels, from fathers rushing around ballrooms procuring eligible gentlemen to introduce to their daughters, to said daughters discussing their husbands whereabouts, in a confidential way with his servants. Possibly because our heroine was childish, petulant and unfortunately, unintelligent. Our hero is weak, unsure, undignified, and idiotic. Some of the dialogue was really witty, and good enough to hope for more of that smooth sophistication. Only it deteriorated back into the normal stilted, trite, awkward and unbelievable pattern of speech. It was decidedly modern, right down to asking, "are you kidding me?" Kidding? Sisters did not spend a fortune for themselves on their brother-in-law's account in those days. Not sure they would these days either! Important details were ignored, such as no mention being made of a second carriage or her maid, when travelling to the earl's estate, yet she miraculously appears there. I got to "rolling my eyes," each of the many times, someone did so on the pages. The use of "the big oaf" to describe her husband became repetitively irritating. An earl forcing his errant ward, to go from Harrow to becoming a stable boy, to teach him responsibility, became a bit much for me. As the errant ward persuaded the errant countess to flee the two days back to London on horseback, dressed as a boy, with no money, I was beyond caring about any of these unattractive people. I gave up, having ploughed through 59% of this tedious book.
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