By Kelly Bridgewater
Miss Camilla Pierpont, a renowned matchmaker and influential
member of the New York Four Hundred, has vowed never to marry after suffering a
devastating heartbreak during her debut years ago. However, when she is nearly
abducted along the Hudson River, she finds herself rescued by an annoyingly
outspoken, albeit fascinating, gentleman who challenges her in a manner she
wasn't expecting.
After learning that Camilla Pierpont has enjoyed
success with taking wayward young ladies in hand, Mr. Owen Chesterfield travels
to the Hudson River Valley determined to convince Camilla to sponsor his
sister, who is in desperate need of social rehabilitation.
Knowing her life is in danger, Camilla agrees to
Owen's proposition and travels with him to West Virginia, finding herself
charmed by the less-than-formal attitude of his small hometown, as well as by
Owen himself. But danger waits in the shadows, disrupting what she knows would
be the most spectacular match she's ever made--her own.
My Thoughts:
I love Jen Turano’s stories. I have read all of
them and enjoyed majority of them. However, Meeting Her Match was different than her previous series. It does fit well into her Matchmaking series. A lot of dialogue explaining the feelings and what has occurred
in the past to convince Camila to help Owen’s sister become proper enough to
enter society and be presented into the Four Hundred Society. There were funny moments with a pig, a dog, and a cat. There were funny moments with whitewashing a fence. I did enjoy the cast of characters in Owen's families. With their help, Camilia learned that what others think of you is not that important as what you think of yourself. Near the end of the novel, the action did pick up, and became more
of what I expected from Turano’s stories. Speaking of the romance, Owen
and Camila did not like each other and pretended to be betrothed to help his
sister, but then of course, sparks began to fly, and the romance was off to the
races. Overall, Meeting Her Match by Jen Turano captured the wild wealthy world of West Virginia and brought into falling literally into the world for the Four Hundred in New York City. I can’t wait to read her next series.
I received a complimentary copy of Meeting
Her Match by Jen Turano from Bethany House Publishing, but the opinions
stated are all my own.
My Rating: 4 out of
5 stars
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