Review: Caro's intrepid sense of adventure and her strong sense of self as Alec's heroine was a perfect decision.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
Originally Reviewed for: Bodice Rippers, Femme Fatales and FantasyPassionately Yours is book three of Cara Elliot's Hellions of Highstreet Series. A Series about three sisters who just don't quite conform. They are funny and talented and witty.. and let loose upon the marriage mart.Passionately Yours is Caro's story. The baby of the family all grown up and looking for adventure. A gifted poet who wants to be recognized as such Caro has already grown bored of a woman's life in the ton. One season in and she realizes that she didn't want to enter the ton, she just wanted to spend time with her sisters on their adventures. Now her sisters are married and she is alone on an adventure of her very own. And it's a lot scarier than she thought it would be.Alec McClellan, dour, gruff, opinionated.. Caro's antithesis and yet.. Alec was betrayed in love early in life and has closed himself off to even the chance of getting hurt again. He works solidly towards a free Scotland and he works in a peaceful manner. He believes it is possible but there are those who believe only violence can make change. When his sister and her friend (Caro) are almost kidnapped while walking in the country Alec goes on the alert. Something is wrong. If only his attraction for Caro didn't keep getting in his way.Hello rock... Alec is hard as stone and determined to stay that way. Trying to keep his sister in the dark as to his political plots is hard enough. Now she's in danger and the every inquisitive Caro Sloane is on hand. Alec doesn't really meet a hard place rather falls to Caro's gentle badgering.. More like water eroding his reserves.Once again Ms Elliott brings Regency issues to our attention. The world was not all that was perfect there was just as much dissent going on then as now. And people often wanted change, by fair means or fowl. Scotland has always been a free nation in the minds of the Scots.. and in every generation, even ours, there are those fighting for that right.To use Caro's intrepid sense of adventure and her strong sense of self as Alec's heroine was a perfect decision. These two strong willed individuals are a perfect match.Another wonderful ending to a great trilogy..ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of Passionately Yours, provided by netgalley