The Lady Loves Danger

The Maidens of Mayhem, Book 2

by Anabelle Bryant

⭐⭐⭐ /5

Recently arrived in London, Lady Delilah Ashbrook’s is out shopping with her ladies maid’s son when he is abducted. Now feeling guilty and needing something to do she starts to search the streets for the boy. She is Lucy to run into Sebastian St. Allen while being accosted be a pair of street thugs and makes it out alive. Being that St. Allen is also on the streets searching for answers about missing children, he offers her his services and they team up on her search…

This is the second book in The Maidens of Mayhem series from Anabelle Bryant I had expected a more central role for the Maidens of Mayhem that appeared to be a foursome in the first book. This aspect really confused me, for we do not even come across the maiden until Delilah and St. Allen story is well on their way and their minimal presence was not paramount to the plot. Seemed odd for a series that is about them.

There were a lot of different mini mystery plots being hashed out in this story and beyond the class difference romance that blooms between Delilah and St. Allen, they felt obvious and at some points tedious. The plot point about missing children was not resolved at all, and I can only hope that St. Allen continues his search for justice and the Maidens of Mayhem take up the mantle in the next book. This felt like a pretty big injustice that needed some resolution. In the end, the love story kept me from DNF’ing this book and I pushed though to see their HEA. I will say that some parts felt obvious, it was still enjoyable.

Overall, this story didn’t really capture me as much as I had hoped and the girl gang of the series felt pretty AWOL for most of the book.

The Lady Loves Danger by Anabelle Bryant was released May 31st, 2022.

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

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