(A League of Extraordinary Women #3)
by Evie Dunmore
September 7, 2021
Goodreads Summary:
London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted "just" three things in life:
1. Acclaim as an artist.
2. A noble cause.
3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman.
Why then does this Oxford scholar find herself at the altar with the darkly attractive financier Lucian Blackstone, whose murky past and ruthless business practices strike fear in the hearts of Britain's peerage? Trust Hattie to take an invigorating little adventure too far. Now she's stuck with a churlish Scot who just might be the end of her ambitions....
When the daughter of his business rival all but falls into his lap, Lucian sees opportunity. As a self-made man, he has vast wealth but holds little power, and Hattie might be the key to finally setting long-harbored political plans in motion. Driven by an old revenge, he has no room for his new wife's apprehensions or romantic notions, bewitching as he finds her.
But a sudden journey to Scotland paints everything in a different light. Hattie slowly sees the real Lucian and realizes she could win everything—as long as she is prepared to lose her heart.
Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do?
Review
Evie Dunmore's A League of Extraordinary Women is one of my all-time favourite historical romance series. Every story so far has been smart, witty and absolutely swoon-worthy. So I of course enjoyed Portrait of a Scotsman.
What I Liked:
- the stories and the histories
- the writing is very sharp and smart
- timid Hattie who had a surprising rebellious side
- Lucian's secret tenderness, he wasn't as much a monster/rake as people made him out to be
- smoking hot sexual tension between Hattie and Lucian
- the supportiveness between the women of the series
The Not So Much:
- there was a lot of business talk which was confusing and boring most of the time
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