A Gentleman to Avoid by Wendy May Andrews
To save her reputation, she’ll have to marry the one man she said she never would.
Mr. Ashford Northcott, fourth son of the Earl of Everleigh, has been highly successful in business. The only thing missing is a partner for the life he’s built. Ash can’t seem to stay away from Lady Vigilia. Too bad she doesn’t seem to return his regard.
Lady Vigilia Sherton—Vicky to her friends—thinks being a debutante is a dead bore. Stuck in London for her third Season, she’s hoping to find a suitable husband, but she can’t get the charming Mr. Northcott out of her mind–even if she knows too much to consider a match.
When Vicky finds herself at a house party with Ashford Northcott, circumstances get even trickier.
Can she extricate herself with both her heart and her reputation intact? Or might she had been wrong about the assumptions she had made?
- File Name:a-gentleman-to-avoid-by-wendy-may-andrews.epub
- Original Title:A Gentleman to Avoid: Sweet Regency Romance (Sherton Sisters Book 3)
- Creator:Wendy May Andrews
- Language:en
- Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B08M2MNH1W
- Publisher:Sparrow Ink
- Date:2021-01-20T00:00:00+00:00
- File Size:273.370 KB
A Gentleman to Avoid, Book 3 of the Sherton Sisters series, was about Mr. Ashford "Ash" Northcott, fourth son of the Earl of Everleigh, and Lady Vigilia 'Vicky" Sherton, the third daughter of five daughters to the Earl of Sherton. While both Ashford and Vicky held the other in high regard, neither knew it. Vicky thought Ash still held a tendre for her eldest sister, Rosabel, and Ash thought Vicky had little regard for him. While Ash still tried to show her his interest, she continued to rebuff him. Vicky was a very self-centered young lady who, though she loved them all, had very little regard for her sisters, her best friend, even her baby brother, and thought more highly of herself than anyone else. Ash was...sweet but clueless. He felt that there was something about him that bothered Vicky but he didn't bother to figure out what it was...and still he pursued her. She ran, he chased, even going so far as to follow her to a house party in order to woo her. Side Note: The author spent entirely too much time addressing Vicky as "the girl" instead of "lady" or "woman". The overuse of the word was a bit irritating and, at times, demeaning. And then there was the part where the author wrote, "Vicky could barely look at Wexford...as she returned his stare..." Uhm...if she could barely look at him, why was she returning his stare? That made absolutely no sense at all. As the two attended the same house party, one that was thrown by Vicky's friend in the hopes of helping her find a husband, they were rarely in each other's company, though not for the lack of trying on Ash's part. There was a part of the story that made little to no sense. A man, who had not been invited to the house party and, although he was not sent away, the only purpose he was there was to enlist Vicky's help in bringing about the ruin of Ash. He had a vendetta against him for something that had nothing to do with Vicky, even though the man insinuated that it did. The story had a great deal of angst, drama, and intrigue...but little to no romance. There was absolutely no chemistry between the two main characters, nor was there a lick of trust between them. Why would there be a HEA between two such characters without something being between them? The storyline of this book was lame and was not very well developed at all. It was a straight-line plot, leading from point A to point B without any twists or turns, which made it utterly boring. It took me longer t read this story than it normally would because I lost interest in it...repeatedly. There were even times when I nearly gave up and didn't finish it. The HEA was a bit flat. After absolutely no romance, the two main characters were suddenly so in love they couldn't keep their hands off each other. The whole book was a total disappointment and did not earn even a one-star rating and most decidedly did not earn a place with the Keeper for the Shelves collection.