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Engagement from Hell!

The Adventuress - Tasha Alexander

This book was a lot of fun to read!! Lady Emily's best childhood friend, Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, is finally getting married so the entire wedding party and family travel to the French Riviera for a two-week engagement celebration. I think anytime a big group goes on a vacation together it gets interesting and that was the case here. There was family drama, a bitchy bride, a weird brother and then a number of suspicious incidents turn what's suppose to be a happy celebration into the engagement from hell! I really enjoyed the story but I wasn't quite satisfied with the ending.

Lady Emily was supposedly duped and kidnapped by an archaeologist which she is acquainted with and talks with earlier at her hotel yet the ending doesn't really explain how she was duped or what happened to the real archaeologist?? So I definitely think that needs to be clarified and expanded on further.

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Other then that, I thought this was a great story and I really enjoyed it!  This is book #10 in the Lady Emily series. You could read it as a stand-alone though but I would recommend starting at book #1 and reading the entire series because they are all excellent!

 

**I received this ARC from NetGalley and Minotaur Books in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

 

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