The closest Honoria Smythe-Smith (yes, of <i>those</i> Smythe-Smiths) has come to romance is digging a hole in an attempt to fall convincingly in front of Gregory Bridgerton - but in the process she managed to injure Marcus Holroyd, a man she's known since childhood (and her brother's best friend!). Marcus is in need of care, that's plain, but now he realises he was also in need of something else...

This was a very cute story right from the start. Cute, but a little same-y. I thought the book was going to bumble along in that same vein, but happily things got more interesting when Honoria's mother appeared and took charge for a bit. Honoria and Marcus were both as clueless as each other and I adored watching them figure themselves out. And then of course there was that wonderful climax - at one of the musicales, where else?

Georgiana Bridgerton's reputation is in tatters after she was kidnapped by suitor with a rather large debt. It falls to Nicholas Rokesby to rescue her - in the form of a marriage proposal, something he's rather reluctant to do. Georgie doesn't want him to pity her. But she doesn't have a choice. After years of being cordial friends, will they be able to see each other with new eyes?

I had a lot of fun reading this. Pretty much any scene that involved Cat-Head had me giggling in a most undignified fashion. And Freddie Oakes falling out of the tree - I just about cackled. I adored Georgie and Nicholas together, especially since they got to both experience intimacy for the first time - you just don't see that enough in historical romance novels. I also found the medical stuff quite interesting. And who wouldn't be delighted with those brief appearances by the young Bridgerton boys?