Luckily for Annabel, her uncle has hired Christian, yet another impoverished titled Englishman, to put a spanner in the works. Her titled Englishman, unfortunately, is very much an ordinary titled Englishman: stuffy, controlling, and unfaithful. But Annabel is no ordinary American heiress: for most of her life she was dirt poor, "white trash" from Mississippi, and the pain of rejection drives her fiercely. Nothing else ever happened back then, apparently. Set during the Edwardian era, it's - unsurprisingly - a story about an American heiress set to marry an titled Englishman. It's sharp and fresh and tightly written, with distinctive characters and an engaging situation. It's not that Trouble at the Wedding is the most gorgeous, deeply characterized historical ever, but it doesn't have to be. (I'm not going to identify the book, since my current weird state of mind might have contributed to how little I was enjoying it.) Thank goodness Trouble At the Wedding came along before I decided to cart my entire historical TBR to the library. The last one I tried to read has been getting rave reviews up the wazoo I got to page 280, realized there were still 100 more pages left, and groaned out loud. Historical romances were my first love, but lately I've been noticing how much they snore, and wishing they'd take the damn garbage out.
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