2: Farce about too many mistresses and fiancees
If you don't like farces or promiscuous heroes, avoid this book. To tell the truth, the hero is not particularly promiscuous, although he has difficulty clearly with women. First, there is his mother and his sisters (including a married sister who is always fleeing to him with minor complaints about her husband). Secondly, there are those would-be fiancees his mother and sisters invite home. Then, there is the little problem of two mistresses too many. [Can a man really have a mistress for a different mood?]. Not to mention, there is the vicar's sister back home, an old childhood friend who has become so much more than a friend.You can imagine the confusion generated in the life of Adam, Viscount Cheverell when he finds himself engaged to three women all during one excursion - and discovers that all three of his mistresses have come down to his family seat looking for him. What is a man to do? Beg his old friend Miss Sarah Meade to help him naturally? And what is a vicar's daughter and sister to do when her old friend asks her to shelter and calm down three Fashionable Impures who were unknown to each other (and who get into catfights, naturally)? I have to say that I fell in love with this book when I read about the vicar (brother of the heroine) snitching the gingerbread men hot from the oven. Do I like gingerbread? Nope. But I love the idea of a vicar casually snitching his sister's efforts and naming them after Biblical characters. Adam is a bit much at times, his engagements not being his fault (you have to read the book to believe this!) but he definitely had too many mistresses. Yet his explanations almost had me believing in him. My only regret was that the vicar was disposed of by the end of this book. I would have loved to have read a book in which he featured as the hero. [Not to mention that I felt he deserved a different partner in life!]. Rating - 4.3 (B+)
No breakdowns provided, since I read this book a while back.
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