Review: What Happens In London

 

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Olivia Bevelstoke, the only daughter of the Earl of Rudland, is beautiful, wealthy, twenty-one and unmarried, making her the subject of much gossip: 'What is she waiting for? A prince?' But Olivia isn't stuck up, and neither is she a hopeless romantic. However she is waiting for something - or someone. Enter Sir Harry Valentine, her intriguing new neighbour . . .

Sir Harry Valentine is not a spy, but he's had all the training, so when a beautiful but mysterious woman begins to watch him from her window, he is instantly suspicious. But just when he decides that she's nothing more than an annoyingly nosy debutante, he discovers that she might be engaged to a foreign prince, who might be plotting against England. And when Harry is roped into spying on Olivia, he discovers that he might be falling for her himself . . .

Genre: historical romance

Publication date: August 2011

Mature content: yes

Review: Julia Quinn is definitely one of my favorite historical romance authors, but I don't thing What Happens in London is one of her best works. 

I'm rating it with 4 stars mostly because of the witty and immensely funny dialogues between Harry and Olivia, and because their window-to-window romance is sweet and original. 

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But the rest of the plot is somewhat dull, and the attempt at suspense almost at the end is unconvincing and, quite frankly, unrealistic.

What Happens in London is book two in the Bevelstoke series and, while I'm now curious about book one and Miranda's story, I didn't feel like I was missing anything really important by starting the series with book two. 

 

Happy readings,

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