His Lordship's Mistress (Signet Regency Romance)

Rating:
Summary: Short regency with a bad plot
Review: His Lordship's Mistress is a typical short regency of about 200 pages. Some authors can manage to cram quite detailed plots and characters into this short format, but not in this case. This is a very shallow novel. Jessica Andover, who is 20, is left financially in a bad way when her step father dies. She has Winchcombe, a property, plus the care of two younger half-brothers. Her character comprises of the usual cliches of young, beautiful and fearless. She sells of her tenant farms (I found that a bit hard to swallow, no responsible gentleman farmer at the time would have done such a thing, also she is underage and yet her guardian, a kindly neighbour lets her do as she pleases.) In addition, she mortgages what is left of the estate to the kindly neighbour. This is so she can have the money to breed horses. So of course we know see her openly dressed in breeches in front of her conservative neighbours training horses (very historically unlikely). Her kindly neighbour dies, and a villain who wants to marry her inherits. He threatens to foreclose on the mortgage if she won't marry him. But don't worry, Jessica is fearless, she knows exactly what to do to save her property and herself. She will go to London and find a rich protector and be a mistress. Luckily, she has a beautiful Shakespearean speaking voice, thanks to her governess's training. So of she goes to London, gets a moneylender to lend her money by mortgaging her property (um, thought it was already mortgaged...) walks into the best theatre in town and of course instantly gets hired on the spot as a leading actress and yes, she instantly becomes the reigning toast of London. She becomes a rich lord's mistress and you can guess the rest. No problems for Jessica ever.

Rating:
Summary: Passionate and moving
Review: This is a typical Joan Wolf regency plot, in that the hero and heroine face some very real life issues and obstacles to their love. It is in the vein of "A Difficult Truce" and "Highland Sunset". If you like those, you will probably like this one. One of my favorites because the hero and heroine are both people of great character and personality.

Rating:
Summary: Passionate and moving
Review: This is a typical Joan Wolf regency plot, in that the hero and heroine face some very real life issues and obstacles to their love. It is in the vein of "A Difficult Truce" and "Highland Sunset". If you like those, you will probably like this one. One of my favorites because the hero and heroine are both people of great character and personality.