Tracy’s review of A Gentleman Says “I Do” (The Rogue’s Dynasty #5) by Amelia Grey.
Iverson Brentwood has finally met his match. Catalina Crisp heats his blood like no other lady. Her alluring countenance has stopped him dead in his tracks. But no matter how attracted he is to her, he can’t give into his desire to possess her in every way…she is the daughter of the man he’s sworn to destroy.
Catalina’s father is a well-known writer, but wastrel whose disappearances continuously put them close to destitution. Something drastic must change, so it is with quill in hand, that Catalina completes her father’s latest parody of Iverson and Matson Brentwood’s spectacular arrival in London. When the story hits the newsprint, a darkly handsome man is at her door, looking for her father.
Seeing the dashing rogue in the flesh, for a bewildering moment dallying with the rake seems like the perfect fictional escape—and it’s all she can do not to give into the madness of the intriguing man.
Iverson Brentwood doesn’t care for a parody that is written about him and his twin in a London newspaper and plans to let the author of the story know how he feels about the situation. When he gets to the man’s home however he is confronted not by the man but the man’s daughter, Catalina Crisp. She is calm in the face of Iverson’s ire and actually ends up battling with him verbally.
Iverson isn’t giving up on his search for Sir Phillip Crisp, who has apparently left town, but in the meantime he can’t stop thinking about Ms. Crisp. She was intelligent, witty, forthright and not afraid to stand up to Iverson, or what she believed in. He starts to head to her house on a regular basis under the guise of looking for the father – which he is – but at the same time he gets the pleasure of Catalina’s company. He ends up kissing her and once he starts he doesn’t want to stop.
Catalina is thrilled with Iverson and his witty banter. She’s definitely worried about her father and what Iverson plans on doing with him when he does return home but that doesn’t stop her from thinking romantic thoughts about the rake that keeps showing up in her life. She’s also not being completely honest with Iverson about the parody’s that he’s upset about. There are actually two more installments, which she is afraid to mention in the hopes that she can find her father and get him to recall them from the paper. Eventually the truth comes out and Iverson is none too pleased with the information.
This is my first read by Grey and it was a good one. The story started off pretty slow for me even though I liked the banter between Iverson and Catalina quite a lot. There just seemed to be quite a bit of description or inner thought when I needed something more to happen. As the book went on though things picked up and there was a bit of fun, a bit of humor and some good ole romance.
I really liked the conversations between Iverson and Catalina. They were interesting and clever and I loved that the author had them getting along so well despite their differences – you know…him wanting to hurt the father and the daughter defending the father.
There wasn’t a whole ton of angst in this one and it was always nicely resolved and didn’t involve the romance itself. It was nice to read a novel where the people fell in love and didn’t have great angst over the fact that they liked and eventually loved each other.
I will definitely be reading more of Ms. Grey in the future.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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