Author: Julie Anne Long
Original Title: How The Marquess Was Won
Release Year: 2012
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England, regency
Series: 6° of Pennyroyal Green series
Vote: 8/10
I think the author should improve her novel starts: by what I've read so far, I have the impression that
the stories beginning share a not particularly captivating factor,
clearly isn't the same in every Long's romances. Truth be honest,
when the plot increases, the opening dissatisfaction is forgotten, becoming much more
interesting, more thrilling and surely more fascinating.
How the marquess was won is a good
romance, Long's ironic style is quite interesting, she describes
thoughts and embarrassing and tragicomic circumstances, creating
really funny moments for the reader.
Phoebe Vale, beside her young age, is a
teacher with and impressive culture and a remarkable inclination for
foreign languages; grown up in a not particularly happy context, now
she lives a lonely but gratifying life: she teaches in renowned
school, she has a really good relationship with her pupils and she is
going to fulfil her dream to go to Africa and work there. However
Phoebe isn't quite the calm girl, she is exuberant, cheeky, smart and
sharp, and when she meets the notorious “Lord Ice”, Julian
Spenser, Marquess Dryden, she becomes involuntarily the subject of a
wager between the above-mentioned lord and the Viscount Waterburn:
the latter bets that Drydan can't get a kiss from the young teacher.

