The Lady And The Cit (Signet Regency Romance)

Rating:
Summary: Grueling
Review: Miss Aurelia Trevor had the misfortune of being born of female. Unless she marries, her beloved Pensevey Park will fall under the care of her dastardly uncle. Aurelia needs to find a husband--and fast. Anyone would be better than her uncle and sniveling cousin.

Enter Thomas Lanning. A cit (and therefore, not classified gentry), he doesn't really have any intention to wed, but he sees something beneficial in what Aurelia is proposing. He agrees to marry Aurelia, regardless of the fact that they always butt heads.

Throughout the book, Aurelia and Thomas are at odds. For the longest time, our hero and heroine show no interest in each other, aside from mutual attraction. At times, they seem to barely tolerate one another. If you like that in a book, you'd probably like this. However, the grueling pace kept me from enjoying it. And the author seemed to veer away from the main plot more than once. Toward the end, I felt like I was drudging through it.

On the bright side, the author does a good job at creating her characters, and showing their transitions throughout the book. Overall: 2 1/2 stars.

Rating:
Summary: The Lady and the Cit
Review: To escape a forced marriage of convenience and gain a measure of control over her father's estate, Aurelia agrees to marry Thomas Lanning, a businessman, thus avoiding an inconvenient marriage to a loathesome nerd. From their union, Thomas hopes only to gain a degree of respectability that an untitled man can not hope to earn on his own. Love never entered into their plans, but not everything can be planned.

*** Strict adherence to Regency conventions may leave readers unfamiliar with the jargon of this genre a bit asea. For example, the term 'cit' is not one normally used in today's language, at least with the meaning of a tradesman. However, fans of that type of book will find everything in order and to their taste surely. ***