To Bed a Beauty Book

This novel was so funny at times. The H and h are a perfect match for each other, but ironically, the h has set her sights on trying to get a neighbouring Earl to propose to her because that guy seems like her ideal type. However, a weird set of circumstances keep pushing her into the arms of the hero, a handsome sexy man whore Duke who is allergic to marriage. I don't really find many blonde men sexy ( except for Alexander Skarsgard from True Blood and the late Paul Walker - may his delicious self RIP ), but I really loved this blonde hero. I kinda preferred to imagine him in my mind as looking as Alexander Skarsgard so that made reading this romance very interesting.

The way both MC's fight their attraction to each other is funny. The heroine's notions about marriage and love have been warped by the twisted adulterous marriage between her parents and the H has never known what parental love feels like. This sets our couple at a huge disadvantage in the journey to their HEA because they're both afraid to have their hearts broken and their lives destroyed. There's a lot of jealousy on the part of the H, a bit of stupidity on the part of the heroine and a lot of unwelcome help from the heroine's kind, matronly benefactress. The H's mother is such a cold, snobbish and unfeeling bitch that one knows immediately why he is so cynical about love. I wondered how that frigid old bat thawed out enough to conceive the hero - or maybe she just closed her eyes, opened her aristocratic legs and dreamed of diamonds while her husband was doing the deed. I did enjoy how the H got so fed up of her icy, insulting treatment of the heroine and threatened to send her to the Dower House - gasp ! That would be social suicide for a snobby entitled witch, so she shut her trap immediately. This Ice Queen may be resentful of her son's choice of bride but she knows who holds the purse strings.

This was a nice, funny and lovely romance with very sexy characters who shared such hot chemistry from the very first time they met. I really must remember to read the first novel in this series, about the heroine's older sister and their sexy guardian Marcus.