La Petite Four by Regina Scott

[meganbmoore]

A YA regency romance, this is about Emily Southwell, a young lady seeking recognition as a painter. A week before the comeout ball for Emily and her three best friends, where Emily hopes to display her paintings, Emily learns that she is engaged to marry Lord Robert Townsend, a man she despises. Even worse, he plans for them to marry the day before the ball, and then leave town.

It’s YA, so I’ll ignore the bit about a Regency High Society wedding involving the nobility supposedly being pulled off within a week of it being announced.

Emily isn’t going down without a fight, so she and her friends set out to find out what Robert’s really like, only to discover that the woman he supposedly loved died just days before he proposed to Emily, and that he seems to be up to other illegal activities.

This is one of those YA that I kind of wish I’d read at the right age, when I would have thought it was the most exciting and romantic thing ever, especially Emily’s scenes with James Cropper, a mysterious man also investigating Robert. As it is, it was a fun bit of fluff, but not much else. It did make me remember that I have a lot of non-YA Regencies waiting for me to read them, though.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

What's the title even supposed to mean? O_o I mean bad french is common in the text, but can't they even keep it away for a freaking title?

[oxymoronassoc.livejournal.com]

I love Regencies, but the YA ones I find lacking. I like mine with a little action/adventure/mystery, and those are very hard to come by along with decently written and non-retarded characters.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I used to read Regencies by the truckload, but never did read the YA ones.

Nor did I really get into other kinds of romances, historical or otherwise. Not sure why.