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A review by rjordan19
How to Train Your Earl by Amelia Grey
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: immediately
Cliffhanger: no, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes (I believe a month or so in the future?)
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley in e-book form that is now very old and not even close to being an advanced copy anymore 😆
Should I read in order?
I read this one alone and thought it was fine to pick up like that. The heroines from books 1 and 2 are this heroine’s friends and they have some page time but nothing major.
Basic plot:
Brina has sworn off marriage forever – so she has no idea why Zane would make a bet that he would marry her before Season’s end.
Give this a try if you want:
- Regency (my assumption)
- widow heroine (she’s been widowed for 5 years)
- the meet cute includes the heroine coming across the tied to a chair Earl…
- heroine started a charity school
- hero pursues
- hero wants the heroine to turn him respectable so he can be worthy of his new title
- reform the rake
- low steam – a few kisses and one very vague scene that’s a few sentences long
Ages:
- Hero is 30, heroine is 24
First line:
Brina Feld should have known a lady wasn’t safe from rakes, rogues, and scoundrels at a masked ball in Paris.
My thoughts:
I struggled a bit in the beginning of this one. It had some things I love, like reforming a rake and hero pursues the heroine. But I also kept waiting for more to happen between them and wanted a bit better build up.
I ended up really adoring one scene where they are in a carriage (or phaeton? Curricle? Something fast….) and they are trying to lose someone following them. The hero tells the heroine to grab onto the waist of his pants and hold on for dear life and I don’t know it was just the cutest scene. I just loved it. It was fun and sweet and such a good tension builder and a bit silly. It made me up my rating a bit.
The steam was such a let down. It’s only a few sentences long with no details in any way. And I feel like Grey really shouldn’t have the covers she has because they always grab my attention but also kind of imply there’s going to actually be SOME action in the book. Yes this isn’t no sex (or ‘clean’ – but I despise that term) there is technically a partially open door scene but not something we need to see shirtless men on her covers 😆 Everyone should be buttoned up real tight…
So, overall kind of cute. I did get pretty frustrated with the heroine at the end though.
Quotes/spoiler-y thoughts:Any mistakes/typos are my own
He pulled back from her but kept his gaze on her face. “If I am to make you mine for all time, I must not make you mine today. We have a bargain. Tempting though it is right now, I’m not going to break our pact.”
//
“Why do you all of a sudden have scruples?”
His brow and around his eyes wrinkled with concern. “I’m fighting for you,” he answered earnestly. “I told you I always play to win.”
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- there’s kind of a general feeling of dubcon throughout this book – the hero pursues pretty hard and pushes the heroine when she tells him repeatedly she’s not interested (we know as the reader that she is interested but fighting it) but I just wanted to note for those that prefer really strong consent in their books that you will probably get annoyed with this hero
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex: No idea because the sex is too vague I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE SEMEN WENT
Hows the consent? There’s some things that are questionable in the beginning – the first kiss and the general tone of the hero not taking no for an answer with pursuing the heroine in the beginning. But overall the consent is good and we know from being in the heroine’s POV that she is interested.
3% - kiss
37% - kiss
55% - kisses in a carriage
84% - very, very light scene with no details or explicitness
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: immediately
Cliffhanger: no, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes (I believe a month or so in the future?)
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley in e-book form that is now very old and not even close to being an advanced copy anymore 😆
Should I read in order?
I read this one alone and thought it was fine to pick up like that. The heroines from books 1 and 2 are this heroine’s friends and they have some page time but nothing major.
Basic plot:
Brina has sworn off marriage forever – so she has no idea why Zane would make a bet that he would marry her before Season’s end.
Give this a try if you want:
- Regency (my assumption)
- widow heroine (she’s been widowed for 5 years)
- the meet cute includes the heroine coming across the tied to a chair Earl…
- heroine started a charity school
- hero pursues
- hero wants the heroine to turn him respectable so he can be worthy of his new title
- reform the rake
- low steam – a few kisses and one very vague scene that’s a few sentences long
Ages:
- Hero is 30, heroine is 24
First line:
Brina Feld should have known a lady wasn’t safe from rakes, rogues, and scoundrels at a masked ball in Paris.
My thoughts:
I struggled a bit in the beginning of this one. It had some things I love, like reforming a rake and hero pursues the heroine. But I also kept waiting for more to happen between them and wanted a bit better build up.
I ended up really adoring one scene where they are in a carriage (or phaeton? Curricle? Something fast….) and they are trying to lose someone following them. The hero tells the heroine to grab onto the waist of his pants and hold on for dear life and I don’t know it was just the cutest scene. I just loved it. It was fun and sweet and such a good tension builder and a bit silly. It made me up my rating a bit.
The steam was such a let down. It’s only a few sentences long with no details in any way. And I feel like Grey really shouldn’t have the covers she has because they always grab my attention but also kind of imply there’s going to actually be SOME action in the book. Yes this isn’t no sex (or ‘clean’ – but I despise that term) there is technically a partially open door scene but not something we need to see shirtless men on her covers 😆 Everyone should be buttoned up real tight…
So, overall kind of cute. I did get pretty frustrated with the heroine at the end though.
Quotes/spoiler-y thoughts:Any mistakes/typos are my own
He pulled back from her but kept his gaze on her face. “If I am to make you mine for all time, I must not make you mine today. We have a bargain. Tempting though it is right now, I’m not going to break our pact.”
//
“Why do you all of a sudden have scruples?”
His brow and around his eyes wrinkled with concern. “I’m fighting for you,” he answered earnestly. “I told you I always play to win.”
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- there’s kind of a general feeling of dubcon throughout this book – the hero pursues pretty hard and pushes the heroine when she tells him repeatedly she’s not interested (we know as the reader that she is interested but fighting it) but I just wanted to note for those that prefer really strong consent in their books that you will probably get annoyed with this hero
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex:
Hows the consent?
3% - kiss
37% - kiss
55% - kisses in a carriage
84% - very, very light scene with no details or explicitness