Review: Infamous

Infamous by Minerva Spencer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Richard and Lucien (Lord Davenport) Redvers might be twins but they couldn't be more different. Lucien, the elder, is charming, well-built, devastatingly handsome. Richard is slighter, wears glasses, is still a little bit spotty, and has a fascination with beetles and bugs. Lucien is about to make an offer for the hand of society beauty, and all-round mean girl, Celia Trent, not knowing that his twin is also in lust with Celia, despite her caustic tongue and spiteful comments. Then at the Duke of Stanford's ball Celia crosses a line, egged on by Sebastian, Duke of Dowden, who has a hatred of Richard Redvers, and earns herself the dubious title Lady Infamous.

A decade later, Richard is a well-travelled, single man, still obsessed by beetles, but grown into his looks and filled out in the body. Lucien is married with two children, and Celia is acting as a ladies companion to Lady Yancy. Their paths might never had crossed again if Richard's younger sister Antonia hadn't been getting married, to Sebastian of all people, and Lady Yancy was invited as the friend of Sebastian's aunt, Lady Morton.

Bringing all the protagonists from that night together for the first time in a decade at Lord and Lady Davenport's country house for a Christmas wedding was bound to create waves. Secrets unfold and Richard and Celia have a chance at love, if Sebastian doesn't sabotage things.

I loved this, disgraced bad girl, nerd turned hot, second chance romance, smokin' hot lovin' and a baddie so evil he makes you want to hiss every time he's on the page. Also, we get to see some of my favourite characters from The Outcasts series.

My only quibble was that Celia's story had some strong similarities to that of Daphne Davenport. I made a similar comment about the final book in The Outcasts series, there were too many similarities between the three heroes' backstories and I had an overwhelming feeling of deja vu, this is less obvious but still striking to someone who only read The Outcast series last year.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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