BOOK REVIEW- TOO WILDE TO WED (Wildes of Lindow Castle) By Eloisa James

No one is more surprised than Lord North when he returns from war to find his ex-fiancee in his ancestral home...working as a governess in a sexy, fiery new Wildes of Lindow Castle romance by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James...

The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde—known to his friends as North—left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. He returns from war to find that he’s notorious: polite society has ruled him “too wild to wed.”

Diana never meant to tarnish North’s reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to consider the consequences of working as a governess in Lindow Castle. Now everyone has drawn the worst conclusions about the child’s father, and Diana is left with bittersweet regret.

When North makes it clear that he still wants her for his own, scandal or no, Diana has to fight to keep from losing her heart to the man whom she still has no intention of marrying.

Yet North is returning a hardened warrior—and this is one battle he’s determined to win.

He wants Diana, and he’ll risk everything to call her his own.   AMAZON 4 STARS

The book plot was even better and deeper than the book blurb  suggested.  It had two great main characters, North and Diana.  

It was amusing when they first met that it comes out later that they both were kind of playing a part.  Well, Diana was coerced into it by her mother.  Her evil mother. Yes, you heard me right not her evil step-mother" but her very own mother. Her mother was always putting Diana down about everything.  No wonder she felt like she could never do anything right.  North was also playing the part of a stiff dandy because he thought that was the only way to get her attention. Be as fashionable as she was.  He fell for her from the very first meeting, her laugh captivated him.  And it wasn't until later that the true people that they were showed up.  That would be when North returns from the war and everything hits the fan.  Well, kind of.  They find each other much changed but it seems that in some ways it made them better. 

There were good secondary people in the story and North's family were such good people.  They actually were very close to each other and watched each other's back.  They even were so fond of Diana and even though she reminded me that she worked for them, they saw her as family.  

The children were a delight in their differences.  Artie was the nickname for North's youngest sister because her real name was a mouthful (Artemisia).  She was every inch of the unique, won't fit into the world's mold, born duchess in waiting very young little girl.  Godfrey is the little boy that Diana sacrificed so much for and everyone accepted her little boy into the family.  Not only accepted but welcomed.  

This book did have plenty of emotions, some coming from North's inability to sleep well or even eat well.  He was trying to overcome the horrors of war.  There are plenty of secrets and other emotions to the story as well.  A friendship does develop between North and Diana and it was very charming.  

The only down side I can think of is that for a while there was a bit of a drag in the story as Diana dug her feet in about ever becoming a Duchess.  Not even North's Duchess, she just knew she wouldn't be good at it.  

There is a H.E.A. for the North and Diana as well as a very satisfying Epilogue.