{"id":18494,"date":"2021-11-26T20:16:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2022-10-30T19:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T23:53:40","slug":"a-ladys-guide-to-mischief-and-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18494","title":{"rendered":"A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem<\/a><\/em> (2020) Manda Collins (A Lady’s Guide)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in England in 1865<\/p>\n

Lady Katherine Bascomb inherited The Gazette<\/em> after the death of her husband, and has come to thoroughly enjoy running it–including writing articles of her own.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, her husband, George, had been alive and making her life unbearable. Now, she\u2019d taken his newspaper\u2014 which he\u2019d nearly let collapse through mismanagement\u2014 and turned it into one of the most profitable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But when she discovers a witness who might have seen a serial killer, she ends up in over her head.<\/p>\n

This started out well enjoy, and I was enjoying the mystery, but I started to notice some romance tropes appearing.<\/p>\n

His nose was slightly crooked, but instead of marring his looks, it made his visage, which might have been too symmetrical without it, more interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was unlike any woman he\u2019d ever known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Uh oh. Hero has a once broken nose and she is Not Like Other Girls.<\/p>\n

But then things got better, and I was back in the story.<\/p>\n

it hadn\u2019t taken long to figure out that it wasn\u2019t her husband\u2019s intellect that made him terrible. It was simply that he was a bad person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then the romance kicked into high gear and I started skimming more. Because it was pretty much insta-love\/lust and, well, whatever.<\/p>\n

He had never thought himself capable of murder, but the flash of anger that ran through him said otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bleh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t I just pretend to be your wife?\u201d she asked.
\n…
\n\u201cDo you think we\u2019ll be convincing enough?\u201d she whispered, her eyes darting to his lips. <\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I believe we can be quite credible,\u201d he said softly, his breath fanning over her lips. \u201cBut we\u2019ll need to practice a little.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bleh bleh bleh. WhatEVER.<\/p>\n

Eversham\u2019s chest squeezed at her degree of upset over these people she\u2019d never even met before. For someone who hailed from the upper class, Katherine Bascomb had a depth of empathy for others that he\u2019d rarely seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh look. Really Not Like Other Girls.<\/p>\n

Then we got the solution to the mystery and.. I’m sorry, but it just didn’t make any sense. WHY would the murderer have acted as they did? Why was neither character suspicious of (murderer)? Why on EARTH am I supposed to believe the reasoning behind the murdering spree?<\/p>\n

So… I kept reading, but so much just plain didn’t work for me.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Forever
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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