Emma Orchard
Boldwood Books
21 June 2025
300
eBook - EPUB
Regency Romance
ARC via NetGalley
As a daughter of the notorious Wyverne family, Lady Amelia is used to being the subject of gossip. But while she has accepted her marred reputation – however unfair it is – she hates the horrible men it attracts.
Amelia decides she needs a suitor of impeccable repute to save her from the attentions of ungentlemanly gentlemen, and who better than the handsome and famously moral Lord Thornfalcon? Since coming into his title, ‘Thorn’ has been besieged by women who want to marry him, or have an affair with him, or both – so perhaps a pretend relationship might suit him too?
There’s just one small catch. Thorn’s childhood sweetheart Lavinia has also set her sights on him again, and rallied half the ton behind her. But what does that matter to Amelia – it’s only a fake engagement, isn’t it? Except, as Lavinia and her friends try to tear Amelia and Thorn apart, she starts to realise that her feelings may not be quite so fake after all.
Because the trouble with brave and handsome Lords is… they might just steal your heart.
To Catch a Lord was a book with a premise that was at times humorous and at times more serious. There was certainly a good amount of intrigue and tension between the romance, if occasionally a little overly dramatic. Amelia was a pleasing heroine and I liked Thorn too except for the fact I had real trouble picturing him in my mind. The way he was described kept leading me to imagine caricatures of beefy military men, and that inability for me to see him any other way made it hard for me to take him seriously every time a physical description of him came up in the text. In all other respects, though, this was an enjoyable Regency romp which tended towards the bodice-ripper end of the scale in the later chapters. I am giving it 3.5 stars. Not my favourite work so far from this author but still good fun.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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