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The Marquis She's Been Waiting For (The Marriage Game #9)

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After the sudden death of his father, Alexander the Marquis  of  Exeter returns home to find with sisters abandoned by their mother and his family on the brink of scandal. Thankfully Lady Dorcus Calthorp, Lady Dorie to her intimates has been the ever friendly neighbour and looking out for Alex’s sisters. Upon meeting the revered Lady Dorie, Alex feels an immediate attraction to her, not only beautiful, she is also the easiest solution to all his problems! Sadly, Lady Dorie experienced disappointment last season during her courtship with different and all handsome lord. She is determined to find a love match and feels that a man as handsome as Lord Alex and with so many immediate concerns does not have the time and luxury of a love match. He is not for her. Then why does she feel so different in his presence? This is very inconvienient when she has decide to make a love match with another lord… to bad the other man does not evoke the same feeling… maybe she just needs to try harder…

I fond the character for Lady Dorie somewhat grating. She had preconceived prejudices towards Lord Alex from the get go based on his need to wed and his looks. She fights her feelings for so long, when everyone sees the obvious match in front of her. The whole story seemed to just go on with poor Lord Alex trying to subtly make her realize her feelings for him until the near end a random attempted kidnapping occurs that really adds nothing to the story. 

The writing was good and I would read another book from Ella Quinn, I feel that the premise character of Lady Dorie soured the book for me. I did really enjoy how the females in the story were including in the running of the estates and the political interests. In general the females were given a lot of opportunity and I would be interested in seeing what other stories in this series do with that.

The Marquis She's Been Waiting For by Ella Quinn is due to release September 3rd, 2019.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Kensington Book, Lyrical Press through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

⭐⭐⭐/5

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 Original review posted: August 30, 2019.

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