BOOK REVIEW- To Wed The Widow (The Reluctant Bride Collection Book 3) by Megan Bryce

 































Come back to a time when manners are everything and rules are made to never be broken. Come back to a time when men are in charge and women do what they are told...
Yeah, that never happened.
Welcome to Megan Bryce's Regencyland, where ladies with backbone get what they want. Where a woman can thumb her nose at rules and care little for convention, and yet somehow, unexpectedly and most reluctantly, find love.

To Wed The Widow

A man with a Future, the Honorable George Sinclair would rather poke his eye out than take his place beside his brother and learn How To Be An Earl. But when an earl orders, a brother obeys. And when an earl tries to make his brother steady and responsible and old and gray, well... it just might kill them both.

A woman with a Past, Lady Haywood is a scandalous distraction that no honorable gentleman can ignore. Especially one who's just been told that his very happy life is changing irrevocably to the boring. But even if a scandalous distraction is what George wants, what he needs is a wife. A virgin wife. A scandal-less wife...

The earl would be the first to say that his brother has always had a problem choosing what he needs over what he wants. Lady Haywood would say that very few women who have buried five husbands would bother with a sixth. And George would say... why, this sounds like fine fun. 
AMAZON  4.5 STARS

I took a chance on this book.  It could have been boring, just okay, good or really good. I'm so glad for me that it fell into the really good category.  The characters alone were pretty good. Who wouldn't like George?  And the widow, Elinor was more multi-layered as a person that people thought.  A lot of people lived to hate her though.  
I also enjoyed the other players in the book who also had some drama going on. Although George's brother Sebastian was "blind" to a lot of things.  He was too busy giving orders as an earl and being obeyed.  At times I thought he was a bully but as the story goes on I recognized that he truly believed that his way was the only way.  It sure caused a lot of pain along the way though.  Unnecessary pain.  
 Flora is Sebastian's wife who is hurting. And she is basically hurting alone even with all the daughters she adores.  
There are some dangers also in the story and it's just not the danger of George finding himself married off to someone his brother approves of.  Because Sebastian pushes and he pushes hard.  Not much of a real listener this guy. Well, not right away at least.  Circumstances began to cause that to have to change. 
This book had all the necessary emotions to keep me reading without getting too pulled down into heavy depressing angst.  Humor was in this book too, something that I always enjoy too.  The way that George looked at life added much of it.  Of course, the verbal baiting between George and Elinor brought a smile to my face more than once.
I liked how the story ended and that there was a very satisfying Epilogue.