This was the first romance novel I remember reading where amnesia played a huge part of the story. While it seemed to be a deterrant for others, I found it to be an interesting premise, even if it didn`t stay apart of the story as long as I expected. It seems a lot of readers had issues with Celia lying to Tarquin when he was in that condition and judged her for it. I didn`t take issue with that so much and I`m also honest enough to admit that if I were put in that position with someone who likened me to a cauliflower in front of the ton that I would likely be tempted to do something of that nature too. Especialy knowing that it was only going to be for a short period of time.

This story was a bit of a comedy of errors all around, which made me smile many times when reading. Between the kidnapping for seemingly no reason, the amnesia, a possibly scandalous past and upbrining in a foreign country, a jewlel obsessed evil aunt, a well meaning, well dressed and slightly misguided uncle, and a possible fiancee hiding in the wood works this was quite the cast of characters. They were all well written and entertaining though and the story moved along at a rather quick pace.

Ultimately I did enoy the main characters. I felt bad for the hand that Celiia was dealt by life; however even with all that she didn`t want to settle. She refused Tarquin`s proposals many times, mostly because he was doing it out of obligation. And while Tarquin was a tough hero to fall in love with between his callous observations and overall obession with how he looked even he eventually endeared himself to me. When I got to that part of the story where his uncle explained why he was that way it made sense but initally the obession and comdemnation of others was annoying. That and even when he was proposing marriage to Celia he appeared to be doing it out of pure obligation. It wasn`t until later on when he realized his feeling that he became genuine when it was almost too late.

I enjoyed this story and finished it in three days. I was intrigued to see how the romance would play out especially with Tarquin being, well, Tarquin as well as wanting to know why anyone would kidnap Celia. I figured that out fairly early but I didn`t solve the full mystery or discover all the players so that was a nice little twist for me.

To say too much more broaches into spoiler territory so I will stop there. I really did enjoy this book even though Tarquin was a bit much to deal with at some points. However one thing I will give credit for is Tarquin was man enough to admit when he was wrong or that he should have done something differently. It may have taken others pointing it out to him but he still did it and that is something in and off itself.