The Rake's Unconventional Mistress

Letitia Boyce is certainly unconventional. Rather than follow her mother's wishes and join the husband-hunt, Letty decides to open an equally unconventional seminary for well-born young ladies. The last thing she wants to get involved with is her younger sisters' current escort Lord Seton Rayne.

I really liked Letty. She's very clever, a talented writer, and wants much more than to be some man's arm-candy. But just because she doesn't want to be stuck in a very limiting gender role doesn't mean she's not interested in experiencing the joys of courtship and a relationship (emotional and physical) with a man. And I can identify whole-heartedly with that.

There's nothing I can point to particularly that was bad about this story. But despite show more the great heroine, I never connected with the hero, and I just wasn't drawn into the story.

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Actually the third in a series of three books, I read this one first because it's the one my library had. Now I'm going to have to try and dig up the first two....

I'm a sucker for books where the hero/heroine is an author, and really enjoyed the scenes where Lettie was working on her latest scandalous novel. The whole "you can be my socially accepted mistress and it will help out your school for young ladies" bit was more than a little far-fetched, but by the time it came around I liked the characters so much I was willing to overlook it. A fun read.

Boring and bland. Bloring.

La señorita Letitia Boyce no envidiaba a sus hermanas por divertirse tanto con el soltero más codiciado de Londres. Ella había elegido su camino y sabía que el estudio y el matrimonio no solían compaginar. Lord Rayne era la demostración y había dejado muy claro que no le interesaba una maestra soltera, por muy bien relacionada que estuviera.
Seton, rico, noble y uno de los libertinos más conocidos de la ciudad, estaba rodeado por todas las herederas que pudiera desear. Por eso, hasta él se quedó estupefacto cuando besó repentinamente a la cautivadora y poco convencional Letitia…