I had the strangest reaction to this book. On the one hand, I really liked the voice and the interaction between the characters. On the other, I hated, loathed really, the setup and the silly situations in which the characters were placed to evoke conflict.
Gabriel Thurston Devine, the seventh duke of Wolverest, decides to hold a house party that will end with a ball announcing the engagement of his brother, Tristan, to some young society miss. Seven young society misses were invited to the house party to “audition” for the bride position. I kept thinking of Willy Wonka and the Charlie Factory and envisioned 7 Veruca Salt characters stamping their feet as their father’s whipped through a number of candy bars to find the gold invite. Gabriel makes the deal with Tristan to beget the next generation of Wolverest’s because he was desirous of a perfect woman and knew that none existed.
The seventh, Madelyn Haywood, a niece of a baron who has a reputation for mishaps, does not want to be invited as she has no interest in any of the Wolverests. She scampers out of the ballroom and into …
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