Tired of spy lords in Regencies? If you said yes, make an exception for His at Night, because it’s not tired. It’s very much awake and zesty. Sherry Thomas has taken this subgenre of Regencies and gave it a fabulous new life… by making the Marquess a blithering idiot. Oh I see your incredulous expression, but yes, a blithering idiot makes all the difference.
The secretly intelligent Lord Vere plays the idiot for everyone in the ton. He mixes up facts, wanders into places he shouldn’t, forgets things from one minute to the next, talks incessantly, and has a puffed up impression of himself. He’s the most nonsensical man around and the last guy anyone would want to marry.
That is except for Elissande (Ellie) Edgerton, a sheltered spinster desperate to escape her uncle’s oppressive household and take her aunt with her. When Lady Kingsley shows up at her door with a house party in tow and a sob story to share, Ellie agrees to let them stay while her uncle’s gone to London. She’s thrilled with Lord Vere’s presence (and he’s similarly knocked out by her) but the illusion cracks when he begins to talk (and she begins to smile).
Spencer recognizes Ellie’s acting, but he can’t breech the disconnect between her public self and her private self. He thinks they’re one and the same. Ellie at first doesn’t see that the idiot is an act… but eventually her own training at the hands of her uncle help her to see through his successful illusion. If only she can get him to break it and be real with her!
In an attempt to snag Spencer’s brother Freddie, Ellie gets stuck with the idiot in a marriage of convenience. But to stay safe from her uncle, Ellie can’t have a marriage easily broken by an annulment, which leads to their first sexual encountered. It’s hot because it’s abruptly aborted allowing them to try again when they’re both more clearheaded.
How can two people, forced to be actors, let go of their lines and let the truth out?
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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