Review: Finally a believably smart heroine
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2012
In the book, The Tutor (House of Lords) by Meg Brooke we meet Cynthia Endersby. She is a complex and intelligent woman. She is not like other women of her time in Historical English high society. She is a woman with secrets and a rich internal dialogue that I never got bored of through out the story.Charles Bainbridge, the new Duke of Danforth is suddenly one of the most powerful men in the country. He was the heir so it wasn't a total surprise, but his father's sudden death placed him in power before he had prepared for it. He has the best intentions for politics, he just doesn't know how it works or how he can make changes. That is how Miss Cynthia Endersby comes into the story. She has already been 'tutoring' the high born ladies to become more then light fluff on the arm of their noble husbands, so why not a Duke?For once there was a believable rejection of marriage to the Duke. Seriously, no one would say no because it is too powerful, rich, etc. But Cynthia has a good reason to not get married and I totally back her up in her spiteful actions. I liked Cynthia. She was never silly. Instead she is a tough survivor that is smart and wily. There is a mystery, but it wasn't what I thought it was, so that was also a nice surprise about this story.I didn't notice that I had already read the book preceding thisThe Secretary (House of Lords)(Clarissa's story). I really preferred this story. Both were well edited with a decent story about a social human experiment on two girls with some tasty romance without ever becoming vulgar.