The Unromantic Lady by Lucy GordonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Diantha Halstow is fabulously wealthy, but her non-nonsense attitude and her grandfather's trade connections have left potential suitors cold. The new Earl of Chartridge, Rexford Lytham, has inherited more debt than he can possibly clear, and he is forced to consider the unwelcome prospect of marrying for money, being nothing less than a common fortune hunter. When his cousin tells him about Diantha, and her unique view that love and romance are utter nonsense. While their relatives scheme to matchmake them, they decide to enter into a marriage of convenience.
Rex and Diantha come to work together well as a couple, matchmaking his brother and her cousin, and rescuing another cousin who has been trapped by a married couple. But as Napoleon escapes from imprisonment, war looms large on the horizon.
This was a strange novel, the bedroom scenes were glossed over, and there was a lot of historical detail, particularly around the Napoleonic Wars. It reminded me of the sort of detailed historical romances Georgette Heyer wrote so well (without ever reaching those giddy heights of perfection), so basically not an inaccurate bodice-ripper. However, all this good build-up was spoilt for me by the abrupt end, maybe I'm too used to the epilogue rounding off the novel nicely.
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