Review: Meet the Earl at Midnight by Gina Conkle

It’s going to take a Beast to tame this Beauty

Enigma Earl. The Phantom of London. That’s what the gossip pages call Lord Edward Greenwich, a mysterious nobleman who doesn’t show his face in London Society. With a reputation like that, no wonder Lydia Montgomery is horrified to be dragged from bed and packed off to live with him to save her mother from penury.

While Lydia has received all of the training a lady should endure, she’s decidedly un-ladylike. She despises her corset and isn’t interested in marriage. She’d prefer to remain unmarried and spend her time improving her art. But if she wants a chance at happiness, she’ll have to set aside her fear of the earl and discover the man hiding behind the beast.

Will Edward and Lydia’s greatest discovery be each other before time runs out?

Series: Midnight Meetings #1
Release Date: May 6th 2014
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Samantha
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

Meet the Earl at Midnight, was sweet and romantic once it really got going. It took a while into the book for it to pick up speed, and really get interesting.

Lydia was a good heroine. She was strong, clever, and determined to follow her dreams. She could be a bit stubborn at times and she did some stupid things, but it was with the best of intentions, so it made easy to see why she would do them.

Edward was interesting. He was very inelegant, and had more interest in botany then any thing else. He was a bit slow on believing that people cared for, and coming to care for others took him a while.

The romance was good when it came out in the book. Lydia and Edward were great together, though I didn’t really feel the depth of their emotions, partly because they were so guarded with them.

The plot was slow paced. I wasn’t totally hooked, but I was kept interested enough to finish it.