Books Read: Julia Quinn - The Lady Most Likely

Source - Received from publisher to review

Bestselling authors Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway team up to create a delightfully fun Regency novel in three parts.

Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife - so his sister hands him a list of the very best young ladies on the market. And then, because he refuses to tear himself away from the stables where he trains Arabian racehorses, she invites all those ladies to a house party, along with some other bachelors, of course. 

So who will Hugh choose? The Botticelli-esque, enchanting Gwendolyn? The outspoken, delightful Katherine? If he doesn't work fast, he'll lose those ladies to his closest friends, and then where will he look for a wife? Perhaps, just perhaps, toward a lady who's not on a market at all, and would require a great deal of persuading . . .

I'd like to thank Little Brown Book Group for sending me a copy of this book to review as this is another one that I probably would not have read, or certainly not immediately anyway.  I'm definitely finding that my reading tastes are broadening as I get older, I don't think I can quite say wiser!

Hugh Dunne has reluctantly come to the conclusion that its time for him to settle down and find a wife but it will need to be someone who can put up with his endless hours spent training his beloved horses. But he knows that he's better equipped at sourcing horses than finding the perfect woman so he decides to ask his sister Carolyn to draw up a list of potential brides for him although in his own mind he knows exactly who he'd choose but she's off the market.

Carolyn knows just who she thinks would be perfect for him, Gwendolyn Passmore and Katherine Peyton, but as the season is over she decides to hold a house party and invite some of the finest young ladies but also some eligible bachelors to make up the numbers.  But as she soon finds out inviting other bachelors soon plays havoc with her attempts to match Hugh to either Gwen or Kate.  Can he woo either of them before someone else does?

I liked the fact that although this is one book, it was written by a collaboration of three authors Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie, and is in effect a story told in 3 parts regarding the 3 developing relationships. 

This was an extremely easy book to read and I found that I kept wanting to read just one more chapter to find out did Hugh get his perfect woman in the end.  But first of all you had to read about the other two match ups which were also enjoyable to read about.  I definitely think he won the heart of the right woman in the end.