Review: A Week to be Wicked by Tessa Dare.

Posted June 25, 2012 by Rowena in Reviews | 4 Comments

Publisher: Avon, Harper Collins


Rowena’s review of A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cover #3) by Tessa Dare.

Hero: Colin Sandhurst
Heroine: Minerva Highwood

When a devilish lord and a bluestocking set off on the road to ruin . . . time is not on their side.

Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove’s confirmed spinsters, needs to be in Scotland.

Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne, a rake of the first order, needs to be . . . anywhere but Spindle Cove.

These unlikely partners have one week:

  • to fake an elopement
  • convince family and friends they’re “in love”
  • to outrun armed robbers
  • survive their worst nightmares
  • travel four hundred miles without killing each other


All while sharing a very small carriage by day and an even smaller bed by night.

What they don’t have time for is their growing attraction. Much less wild passion. And heaven forbid they spend precious hours baring their hearts and souls.

Suddenly one week seems like exactly enough time to find a world of trouble. And maybe . . . just maybe . . . everlasting love.

Love!

It’s taken me much too long to get around to reading this book but I’m ever so glad that I finally did because it was such a wonderful treat. In the first book, I liked both Colin and Minerva and I adored that Colin teased Minerva endlessly. I loved that he never called her by her name and I loved when she’d mouth off to him. I just knew that I was going to love their book, only I didn’t know how much.

I enjoyed it a great deal.

What I enjoy most about Tessa Dare’s books is the way that she utilizes each word on each page. There isn’t a word wasted or a scene that doesn’t move the story along and I find that because of that, my enjoyment of the story itself stays high throughout the entire book. That’s exactly how I felt while I was reading this book.

From the moment Minerva shows up, unannounced at Colin’s door, I knew that I was going to love this book. I already liked them from the first book but it was in this book that I fell in love with the both of them. Each scene with the two of them was fantastically written and I loved it to pieces.

I loved Colin’s Captain Save a Hoe personality that meshed so well with Minerva’s bookwormish ways. They were completely opposite and yet, so perfect for each other. I loved how Dare could have me in fits of giggles one minute and then sighing my heart out in the next minute. They had the strangest conversations and they talked about how they had the strangest conversations. It was too freaking funny.

Minerva is a geologist who needs to be in Scotland for a symposium. She also needs to nip something in the bud before she leaves so she rushes to Colin Sandhurst’s home and tells him that he cannot propose to her sister because she won’t allow it. She’d be damned if she lets him get away with trying to marry her sister because he doesn’t deserve her sister. Her sister is everything that’s light and happy and he’s…not. Colin, who has no plans to propose to her sister is taken by surprise but is also intrigued. So intrigued that when Minerva asks for his help in getting to Scotland, he listens and forgets all about his night time companion who is hidden from him and Minerva.

Humiliated, Minerva rushes away and is determined to forget him…only the very next night, Colin asks her to dance in front of everyone in an attempt to make up for embarrassing her. One thing leads to another and she finds herself on a trip to Scotland with Colin.

Colin can’t believe he let Minerva talk him into taking her to Scotland. She was going to go with or without him and he couldn’t let her go on by herself so he went with her and it is on this trip that he starts to see Minerva in a light that he’s not used to. She hides behind that huge brain of hers and getting to know her has not been boring but oh so much fun.

Watching these two get together was so much fun. The unexpected adventures that these two get themselves into had me laughing and sighing all over the dang place. It’s such a good story that I immediately had to start reading the other Spindle Cove book that I have and then request the next book in the series. This is turning out to be such a treat of a series that I must implore each and every single one of you readers, reading this review to go out and read this series. It’s so good!

Grade: 4.75 out of 5

This book is available from Avon. You can buy it here or here in e-format.


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