A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant

I hope everyone is having a lovely New Year thus far and a happy Epiphany!Īdapted from Cook’s Illustrated and Today being the last day of Christmas, liturgically speaking, I thought it would be a nice send-off to the 2014 holiday season. His sternness and inflexibility are compromised right along with Lucy’s reputation though, making for a fun and amusing read where everything does indeed go perfectly wrong until it’s all right again.Ī Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong was the last of my holiday reads. Lucy’s cheerful and oblivious disregard for propriety drive Andrew up a wall of course. It’s not surprising when nothing goes as Andrew planned. So when her coachman has an accident and can’t drive her to the Christmas house party she has been eagerly anticipating, she cons Andrew in to taking her in his carriage. Where Andrew is rules and duty personified, Lucy is chaos and sensibility.

She has never been into society and has very little understanding of the theology, ethics, morality and rules of behavior that are Andrew’s entire existence. The major extreme circumstance is the heroine, Lucy Sharp, daughter of a widower mainly concerned with his hunting birds and modern philosophy. And while Andrew does change significantly over the course of this book, it’s gradual and, given the extreme circumstances, entirely believable. He stays true to character here, which I loved because often when a hero is portrayed as something other than the powerful protector or the charming rake, he undergoes some kind of miraculous transformation prior to his book that changes him into a more marketable type.

This robust novella features eldest brother Andrew Blackshear, who has come across as fairly stern and judgmental in the other Blackshear books.

This new novella highlights everything I have loved about Grant’s work in the past and would be a great introduction for anyone who hasn’t yet picked up one of her books. I love that her characters get into interesting scrapes and yet still feel like historical romance characters, not just contemporary heroes and heroines dressed up in period garb. Her Blackshear Family series is one for the few currently publishing Regency romance series I have consistently enjoyed. A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong was eagerly awaited by this avid Cecilia Grant fan.

A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant