Romance
Description
Never Wager with a Wallflower is the third and final delightful installment in Virginia Heath's Merriwell Sisters Regency rom-com series.
Miss
Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the
tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like
her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far
too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute.
Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still
no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her
life is the bursting-at-the-seams orphanage in Covent Garden that she
works tirelessly for. An orphanage that desperately needs to expand into
the empty building next door.
For Galahad Sinclair, gambling
isn’t just his life, it’s in his blood. He grew up and learned the trade
at his grandfather’s knee in a tavern on the far away banks of the
Hudson in New York. But when fate took all that away and dragged him
across the sea to London, it made sense to set up shop here. He’s spent
five years making a success out of his gaming hall in the sleazy docks
of the East End. Enough that he can finally afford to buy the pleasure
palace of his dreams—and where better than in the capital’s sinful
heart, Covent Garden? The only fly in his ointment is the perfect
building he’s just bought to put it in also happens to be right next
door to the orphanage run by his cousin’s wife’s youngest sister. A
pious, disapproving and unsettling siren he has avoided like the plague
since she flattened him five years ago.
While Venus and Galahad
lock horns over practically everything, and while her malevolent orphans
do their darndest to sabotage his lifelong dream, can either of them
take the ultimate gamble—and learn to love thy neighbor?
3.5 STARS
This story had main characters that were shown with great depth. As did the people who surrounded them. Venus and Galahad (Gal) were each clever in their own ways. It was like Venus had so much family around her who loved her, even if they interfered from time to time. Where Galahad had almost no one when it came to family. Although it had people with some serious issues and pasts, it also managed to have some humor to it at times too. I just wish that I had liked it more.
It does get points for a good ending and epilogue.
“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
NETGALLEY
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