The Season by Sophia Hollway

  

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre:  Romance, Historical Romance
Content: Clean

 

The Season that changes everything …

Henrietta Gaydon is making her debut in London society for the Season, but her popularity and apparent ease disguises the fact that she is out of her depth and that she dreads the objective of finding a husband. She longs for home, her father and Lord Henfield, who she has always treated as an older brother.

Charles Henfield stopped thinking of Henrietta like a sister when she was sixteen. And he is determined to try his luck with her in London. Mistakes and misunderstandings, the complication of a feud between mamas, and Henrietta’s no longer fraternal feelings for Henfield, all conspire to make this a Season to remember.
 

I went into this book with high hopes. I loved the last book I read by this author, Celia and was hoping for more of what I loved. Ultimately, this one left me feeling unsatisfied. It took far too long to get going and it lacked the type of moments I had hoped for between the two love interests. Unfortunately, there was very little romance in this romance. The main character spent most of her time being courted by other men and getting upset with the main love interest over silly things. I was really wanting to see them together more without the arguing. They are supposed to be friends since childhood that grew up thinking of each other as brother and sister, so they should know each other really well, but that connection isn't conveyed very well in the story. We are told that but not really shown it because of all the misunderstandings between them. If they were that close their whole lives they should have been able to talk to each other and iron these things out a lot sooner than they did. This dragged the story down and made it a slog at times to get through. The ending was satisfying, but there was too much needless drama on the way there.