Elisabeth Fairchild was one of my favorite Regency authors – I’m still hoarding a few of her books in my TBR pile. This was one of her early books.
The Love Knot by Elisabeth Fairchild
(1995, Regency) 8/2/12
Grade: 4
Aurora Ramsey is hoping to marry Lord Walsh, who seems to share her love of agriculture and the country, and can save her from destitution. But she has no hope of catching her attention with her awkward conversation and unflattering clothes. Miles Fletcher offers to help her – but does he have an ulterior motive? The refined art collector may have fallen for Aurora himself, but he’s also hiding a secret about the land her brother lost in a card game…
This is a storyline I love – the refined beta hero who sets out to help the heroine find another man, and ends up falling for her himself. But this Regency felt surprisingly unemotional for the first half of the book. I didn’t feel that I got to know the hero or the heroine – it was all surface. I kept wanting more emotional depth. This improved in the second half, but it just wasn’t quite as good as Fairchild’s other books, which combine the Regency atmosphere with more emotion. Good but not great.
I was going to lament that Elisabeth Fairchild was one of those missing authors who didn’t make the transition out of Regencies, but it seems that she’s writing again – and her old books are being released in ebook form. Yay!
Karen Wheless
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