Book one-hundred-and-seventeen: How to Marry a Marquis

How to Marry a Marquis (1999)
Julia Quinn

Rating: 2.5/5
[The 115: 3/115]

Also very funny and light. No dark moments, despite once again a less than happy past.

When Elizabeth Hotchkiss stumbles upon a copy of the book, How to Marry a Marquis, the timing is all too appropriate. She must marry for money to support her siblings, and a guidebook to seduction might be just the thing she needs... But when James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale, offered to help her find a husband, he never dreamed that the only candidate he could propose would be himself...

Although, I do think that the heroine acts at bit out of character for the last quarter of the book. It seemed to me that everything she wanted had fell into place, so why was she so upset?

Yes, he lied to her. Yes, that was bad. But still, she did have the opportunity not to have to marry anyone, but she wouldn’t accept the hero’s “charity” because she would be indebted to him.

Right.

I just find it a little hard to believe that someone who, at the start of the book, was willing to marry anyone if they were wealthy and reasonably kind, would suddenly decide that this was beneath her.

Maybe it that it felt like she was acting out of her time. Back then, I find it very hard to believe that someone without a title or anyone to protect them could say no if a Marquis wanted to marry them.

Oh well, I just went with it… and I did enjoy it once I decided to ignore these things.

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Finished: Wednesday 25/7