MARION CHESNEY

|| The Savage Marquess || Lady Margery's Intrigue || Regency Gold ||

Last review(s) added 1/12/97

Rated: 2.0
Copyright: 1988
Reviewed: 12/6/97 by Isolde Wehr

Regency

Normally I like stories by Marion Chesney, but this one was confusing and incomprehensible for me.

Lucianda Westerville is the daughter of an ill and poor vicar. One day her father gets a letter. She should come to London and become the chaperone of a young woman. This spoiled Lady Ismene makes her life hell.

Julian, Marquess of Rockingham, is looking for a wife. He doesn't want to court a debutante. He meets Lucinda at a ball and ask her if she would marry him. In the first moment Lucinda is shocked but later she recognizes how cruel Lady Ismene is and she also has to think about her ill father. And so she accepts.

Julian is a rake, a trinker and a gambler. After their wedding he leaves his young wife to enjoy himself in Paris. Lucinda cleans his house and employs new servants. But she can't know that there are people who don't like that she had married the Marquess.

Because there is only dispute between husband and wife and even less romance in the book I didn't liked the story.

Rated 3.5
Copyright 1980
Reviewed 9/14/97 by Isolde Wehr

Lady Margery Quennell has a lot of problems. Her 55 year old father has married a wasteful and spoiled 19 year old woman. Since that day, the family is in debt. After three futile seasons in London Lady Margery needs a rich husband to save the family seat.

She flirts with three rich bachelors, but her plan takes a new turn when these three gentlemen announce publicly their engagement with her simultaneously. What a scandal! The ton is shocked.

Margery does not really love any of these three men. Only Charles Altherton, Marquess of Edgecombes, means anything to her. He is a famous rake.

Charles makes a proposal to her, but does this solve her problems so easily?

The first part of the book was funny and I was laughing out loud very often and I thought what a sparkling tale. But, the rest was unintelligible for me. To many unnecessary tangles between the characters.

The everyday life in her uncles house is without joy and full of humiliation for the young Jean. In her dreams, her life is exciting and fascinating. Every day Jean is waiting for her "prince" and it is overwhelming when she finally meets him - John, Marquess of Fleetwater, an elegant aristocrat. John is astonished with the more than unconventional Jean.

Because she writes an impossible sermon for her uncle she should be banished to her godmother in London. On Jean's trip to London she meets again the Marquess of Fleetwater. Jean has no experience with the high society so she makes one funny mistake after another.

At the end she has to fight for her life because her uncle wants her killed. Jean becomes the heiress of a lot of money. This is one of her dreams which comes true. And the other? The dream about being the wife of the Marquess of Fleetwater? Can this come true too?

A very cheerful and amusing story.