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Nov. 29th, 2018

A nice solid enjoyable romance novel. Doesn't reach the heights of delight of some romance novels I've read have in the past (such as Rose Lerner's True Pretenses) but I also have no major complaints which honestly is doing great.

Nev is a titled young man who's never applied himself to anything serious in his life but suddenly has to apply himself because his father died and he has inherited a massive pile of debt and and a failing estate, and needs to turn things around. Penny is practical, smart, and a very rich heiress to a manufacturing fortune, and finds herself charmed by Nev even though she has no reason to trust he'd be a good match. They marry for practical reasons and then have to a) figure out their feelings for each other, b) deal with poverty and resulting violent unrest among the labourers on their estate, c) thwart the other local landowner who is a total asshole, d) fix Nev's friendships. Among other things.

There was...a lot going on. It all more or less tied in to each other so it all worked together, but it was still a lot!

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In For A Penny, by Rose Lerner

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