Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories

Book Info
Paperback, 352 pages
Expected publication: July 1st 2014 by Sourcebooks Casablanca (first published May 30th 2004)
original title The Trouble With Harry (Noble, #3)
ISBN 1402294425 (ISBN13: 9781402294426)
series Noble #3
characters Plum (Frederica) Pelham, Harry (Haversham), Lord Rosse
setting London, England (United Kingdom) England (United Kingdom)
other editions (13)
Source:Netgalley EARC

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Original Synopsis
1. He is Plum's new husband. Not normally a problem, but when you consider that Harry advertised for a wife, and Plum was set to marry his secretary, there was cause for a bit of confusion. 2. He has a title. Plum has spent the last twenty years hiding from the ton, and now Harry wants her to shine in society? Horrors! 3. He doesn't know about her shocking secret. How is she going to explain about the dead husband who isn't a husband . . . and who now seems to be alive again? 4. He's fallen in love with her. And yet, the maddening man refuses to confide in her. For Plum knows the real trouble with Harry is that he's stolen her heart.

Current Synopsis

When a Regency lady answers an advertisement for a wife, she thinks she may have found the love of her life if she can keep her new husband out of trouble long enough to find out. Reissue.

My Thoughts

Usually by the time one gets to the third book in a series the momentum starts slowing down, the characters lose their originality and sometimes the plots lose the freshness that was what drew the reader to the series in the first place.

In all the time it has taken from first book Noble Intentions to getting through the pages of book three The Trouble With Harry these particular pitfalls were never encountered, if anything this third book genuinely outshone the first two for me!

Just like any connected series this one continues from book to book to have brief appearances of earlier characters using them to complement new ones, which in this case led to some interesting assumptions as to one of the characters in questions choice of livelihood and also gave some insight into the narrow thinking of a lot of the upper class of the time.

The original book synopsis above does a much better job of providing most of the hook necessary to entice readers by giving them a small glimpse into the mindset of the main characters, in particular Plum who just may have outdone Gillian as the most maddening lovable woman ever gracing the pages of a book!

This is a brazenly over-the-top, laugh-out-loud tale that has a heartfelt theme of romance mixed in with all the charming witticisms that characterize the previous two books while allowing this one to shine on its own very easily.

Outrageous, riotously funny with some of the best hijinks that top those of Gillian in book one [b:Noble Intentions|18509647|Noble Intentions (Noble, #1)|Katie MacAlister|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1393789689s/18509647.jpg|49563], laughed until cried from beginning to end with the awesomely silly antics of the cast of characters who won my heart over and over!

[EArc from Netgalley in exchange for honest review]