Eloisa James's VISCOUNT IN LOVE

Thanks to partners NetGalley and Wednesday Books for the digital ARC of Eloisa James's Viscount in Love. The book will be published on  July 23!

I jumped on the chance to read Viscount in Love, drawn in by my previous experiences reading Eloisa James’s fun, feminist spins on regency romance. Viscount in Love fits right in.

Torie Sutton is a bit of an outcast from her society—she’s never fit in the way her sister, Leonora does. Leonora is devoted to meeting others’ expectations, to following the rules and making a good match. And she’s succeeded in all of the above, nailing down an engagement with Viscount Dominic Kelbourne.

Leonora, by contrast, doesn’t care much about fitting in and has had to accept others’ low opinions of her, driven—at least in part—by her inability to read. (It becomes clear early on that she has a reading disability, though this is of course before those were diagnosed.)

When Dominic Kelbourne’s sister and her husband are killed, he’s left with their twins who are rebels and outcasts in their own right. And Leonora is having none of it.

So, left without a partner, Dominic moves on to finding a caretaker instead—and Torie is the perfect candidate.

Torie, though she deeply loves the twins, wants to be more than a nanny, and her resistance and Dominic’s persistence make for a fantastically fun historical romance.

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