Charlotte Beck, a girl on the verge of adulthood, is having trouble meeting social protocol. A seventeen year old American making her social debut in London, Charlotte cannot seem to keep her independent spirit in check. As the only daughter to a wealthy English business man living in Colorado, Charlotte has never wanted for anything, except an education. With an affinity for numbers, Charlotte hopes to attend college for a degree in mathematics and then run her father's business. Her father has other plans.Charlotte wants to have a career before family. At the time, the proposition was almost unheard of. Enter the male lead: rich boy and astronomer Alex Hambly. An Englishman holding his crumbling family together, Alex needs to marry in order to save his family from financial ruin. Charlotte and Alex drive each other crazy (as the characters always do), but Charlotte's father makes them an offer too tempting to turn down.
If they agree to marry, Charlotte is free to pursue a degree for four years and he will pay off the debts the Hambly family owes. Reluctantly, the two agree, secretly planning to annul the marriage as soon as they can. And as these stories always do, feelings change, the characters try to deny it, but in the end realize that the marriage may not have been so inconvenient after all.
My reasoning for picking this book was simple: I didn't really want to read any of the other choices I was given on my blogging for books program. I knew exactly how this one would turn out from the title of the book, and I was right. By Kathleen Y'Barbo, the book is written decently well. The style is simple and straight to the point, but there was quite a bit of humor. A lot of cliches (A little annoying when you have heard them all. Some people can pull that off, others can't. Y'Barbo is in the latter category).
It is your typical romance story. Girl and boy meet. Drive one another up a wall. Vow never to speak to one another. Thrust together against their will. Arranged marriage. Happily ever after. The end.
Oh, I probably should have said spoiler alert! Oh well. You probably should have figured it by now anyway.
Overall, I'm not going to say it was a bad book, because it wasn't. It was just way too predictable. I have read all of that before. If you have some time to kill, want a romance, and don't really care about the plot, go ahead and pick it up. If I hadn't been given it for free, I probably wouldn't have bought it.
2 1/2 stars (out of 5)
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