Love Justice The Worth Brothers edition by Joan Avery Romance eBooks
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London, 1879
American heiress Victoria Wentworth has spent her life blithely ignoring her father's wishes... until he enters her into an unwanted marriage contract with a despicable man. She has two choices marry the bounder or fight the archaic English laws in court. Her only hope is Hugh Worth, the Earl Montgomery and Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer her judge and jury. Society paints him as stern and subdued, yet fair. Society didn't warn her that beneath his somber facade beats a passionate heart and soul.
Hugh finds himself irresistibly, inexplicably, drawn to the spirited American, despite himself and his better judgment. As the inconvenient heiress takes on the fight against the very foundation of his life and career, another battle wages in his once cold heart. Everything about her is inappropriate, illogical, and unexpected. Yet, she is a woman he could admire. A woman of intelligence and beliefs that challenge the existing world.
But she is forbidden.
Love Justice The Worth Brothers edition by Joan Avery Romance eBooks
I love historical romances! This is my first book by this author, and I liked it. The heroine was pretty and smart and strong. My only issue with her and with the book was that she was quite strident. She had absolutely no softness or diplomacy to her. Perhaps if I found myself in such a situation of powerlessness and frustration, I would be, too. The hero was quite wonderful. They had great chemistry. I truly enjoyed the storyline and the author's writing style. Overall, a good book!Product details
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Love Justice The Worth Brothers edition by Joan Avery Romance eBooks Reviews
This is book 2 in the Worth Brothers series.
Victoria Wentworth is going to court to make sure her ex-fiancee won't get her money. Victoria's father signed a wedding contract without her knowledge. But after her father goes back to America and she meets her fiancee, Victoria knows there is no way she can marry the despicable man.
Hugh Worth, the Earl Montgomery and Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer, is the judge and jury for Victoria's case. Before the trial starts, he just imagines that Victoria is one of those American Heiresses just looking for a title, but he soon learns there is much more to her than he thinks.
What happens when they find themselves attracted to each other. Will it taint the outcome of Victoria's case?
I really liked Hugh and the fact that his attraction to Victoria knocked him so off kilter that he did things he normally wouldn't have done (kiss her after just being introduced).
I was a little turned off with all the spouting off that Victoria did in the courtroom and out in public. I just thought it was a bit too much. I've read several books lately that had heroines that would be considered suffragettes and I don't think it needed to be taken quite so far.
The story also had many secondary characters that I enjoyed reading about that definitely made it a worthwhile read.
Thanks go out to Entangled Publishing via NetGalley for a copy of the book in exchange of an honest review.
I enjoyed this romance that was as much about women's rights as it was a romance. Victoria Wentworth is a beautiful American heiress whose father has betrothed her to a dissolute and disgusting English aristocrat - Lord Stanford. A proponent of women's rights, Victoria refuses to marry him leading the jilted fiance to sue her. If she loses, she will be penniless.
The hero of the romance is Hugh Worth, Earl Montgomery and Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is the judge in the case. Since they are of the same social class, Hugh, Victoria, and Lord Stanford keep meeting socially. Hugh is attracted to Victoria but any relationship would be a huge conflict of interest. He also knows Lord Stanford and dislikes him. Victoria is also attracted to Hugh and repelled by Stanford. Stanford has ample opportunities to demonstrate his villainy through the story including an attempted rape.
What was particularly interesting to me in this story was that it focused on three different women's relationships. Victoria has a friend who married a British aristocrat. The friend is satisfied with the relationship but doesn't know that her husband is addicted to gambling and has gambled away the money she brought to the marriage. The second relationship is between Lord and Lady Percy who are happy in their marriage. Finally, Victoria's relationship with Lord Stanford. The book clearly demonstrated the injustice when a woman was little more than property to a man.
I liked Hugh as a character. He was conflicted about any sort of relationship with Victoria. He had a difficult childhood as the son of an abusive father who ruined his family's reputation. Hugh has been determined to restore the family's reputation but his relationship with Victoria could jeopardize that.
I really wanted to like this book. I want to see more stories of women who are empowered and men who find that empowerment attractive. After all, the point of romance is a bit of fantasy, right? I read the synopsis of the book and thought the idea looked intriguing a young woman (Victoria) whose father contracts her to a despicable lord (Stanford) without her consent takes the case to court before a cold but fair (and quietly progressive) judge (Hugh). I still think it was a good idea, and kudos to the author for trying (hence 2.5-3 stars), but I'd like to see more sophisticated character development and plot.
I'll allow a little bit for Victoria to be impulsive and "strident" because she's just 21, but I think it would have been a better story if she had been a little older and more mature. The first time she interrupted the judge and yelled across the courtroom out of turn, I found myself cringing a little. I can appreciate her frustration at being dehumanized, and she has every right to scream and yell, but I just expected a character presented as intelligent and shrewd to act, well, shrewdly. Yelling across the courtroom—no matter how sound your point—won't endear you to the judge or help you to win your case. Indeed, I found that both hero and heroine, though narrated as uncommonly intelligent, acted in unintelligent ways in several places throughout the book, some of which give the villain (a cartoonishly evil man who is presented as unintelligent but then acts far more cunningly than expected) all the ammunition he needs to back the hero & heroine into an impossible corner. After that impossible corner, I found the villain's threat was neutralized far too conveniently and predictably.
Romance with women's rights concerns as part of the plot are great, but I've read several better-written books, such as Courtney Milan's The Suffragette Scandal, Katharine Ashe's The Earl and The Prince. And my favorite empowered heiress of late is Anna Devaliant, heroine of Meredith Duran's The Sins of Lord Lockwood (that book is altogether excellent!). If you're looking for feminist historical romance, I'd start with those books.
The author clearly researched the time period and it was easy to understand the social issues of the time. Engaging from beginning to end.
I love historical romances! This is my first book by this author, and I liked it. The heroine was pretty and smart and strong. My only issue with her and with the book was that she was quite strident. She had absolutely no softness or diplomacy to her. Perhaps if I found myself in such a situation of powerlessness and frustration, I would be, too. The hero was quite wonderful. They had great chemistry. I truly enjoyed the storyline and the author's writing style. Overall, a good book!
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