jacey | Booklog 18/2018 - Julia Quinn: To Catch an Heiress

I usually try to blog the books I read one at a time, but I've been busy, so I'm playing catchup. It's only when I make a list that I realise how many Julia Quinn books I've read this year. No excuses. She writes engagingly frothy regency romances, and when I'm deep into writing, I need something to switch off with.

With six weeks to go before her twenty-first birthday and freedom to control her own money, Caroline Trent is running away from an unwanted marriage when she's captured by dashing Blake Ravenscroft, who mistakes her for a French spy, Carlotta de Leon. She only needs a place to hide for six weeks, so, believing that she can come clean at any time, she plays along. There's a lot of quirky comedy in this book, which is good because the plot is frankly ridiculous. Blake and Caroline are engaging characters, however and James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale is an excellent secondary character.