A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare

A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
on March 27, 2012
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency
Pages: 384
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Unexpected lovers find themselves together in Spindle Cove with A Week to be Wicked—the second book in Tessa Dare’s utterly delectable historical romance series. This Regency Era delight finds a restless British lord desperate to escape the quaint and too quiet small seaside resort he’s trapped in…and he gets much more than he expected when he eagerly agrees to escort a beautiful, brilliant, socially awkward lady scientist to Scotland. Concerning Tessa Dare and her irresistible romances, bestselling author Julia Quinn is spot on when she says, “Prepare to fall in love!” And anyone who loves the novels of Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, and Liz Carlyle is going to adore having A Week to be Wicked.

So I enjoyed A Week to Be Wicked but not as much as the first book. I have always liked the enemies to lovers trope. I think I relish the tension between the characters, and this book has plenty of tension. Minerva Highwood is first introduced in book one A Night to Surrender. Minerva is the bookish, rock loving, bespectacled, overlooked daughter of the Highwoods – a family who came to Spindle Cove to cure their eldest daughter Diana of asthma. But in book two, Minerva decides that she must get to Scotland for a geological symposium and the one person who can help her is her enemy Lord Payne. I thought the character of the rake Lord Payne was hilarious. The way he can never seem to remember Minerva’s name had me rolling. I did think there were a few plot twists: such as the kidnapping that just felt out of place and ludicrous. As in all the Tessa Dare books that I have read there are a few steamy, steamy scenes. Overall a good romance in my favorite trope.