“Never underestimate its gentle power.” » While Olivia/Goose used the book’s knowledge to test it on Beast, Poppy shares it with Nathaniel, together they learn about the way love and lust work in a man and woman brain. Here it is about Poppy, the shy one of the group, she is the one who stays on the side, more at ease as observing than acting. The background plot is the same as it turns around a group of three young women exploiting a book explaining the mechanism of love and using some childhood friends as frog test. Mrs Meara Platt’s work is one of my feel-good cures.Īnd after loving the first installment in this series, this second did not disappointed me. Not easy with all the books lined on my kindle shelves but I always take time to make room for them and read them on the day they are launched. Since I discovered Meara Platt, I do preorder every new book released and this week has seen two releases in a span of time of two days. I received an Arc copy of this book and chose to post this review I loved it ,and I know if you love regency romance you will too. It seems the two will be forever friends, and only that, or will the Book of Love have more secrets to help the young couple realise their destiny.Ī perfect second book, with such a wonderful trope of friends to lovers, Meara’s stories continue to leave me begging for more, and dying for her next book release. She’s a shy, thoughtful and watchful young lady, who has no dowry and comes from a working class family, non of which is good if you want to impress a man of such high standing. Poppy has loved The young Earl for as long as she remembers. He’s troubled from his guilt of being a lone survivor from his division in the Napoleonic wars, he has problems with a blackmailer and now his sisters friend Poppy Fathingale is using him for experimentation in love. Nathaniel is someone we met in the first book along with his friends, but we get to know him and his family much more in this book. One of the best I’ve read this year, it ticks all the boxes. She’s toting around The Book of Love, and he’s promised to help her find a suitable match.īut is it possible that he, in fact, is the right man for Poppy?

But his sister’s shy friend, Poppy Farthingale, is suddenly capturing his attention. In any event, he has a blackmail scheme to unravel before he can turn his mind to more romantic ventures. He is in no rush to marry, for he’s a wealthy and titled bachelor with debutantes aplenty eager to gain his notice. Nathaniel Sherbourne, Earl of Welles, is a man whose heart has been bruised by the ravages of war. Poppy has four days to win his heart, but with time running out and her rival about to attend a weekend party at Nathaniel’s country home, is all hope lost?

How else will Nathaniel Sherbourne, Earl of Welles, ever notice her? With a small dowry and no prominent lineage, Nathaniel will never consider her a suitable wife, especially when her competition is a beautiful duke’s daughter who has already been declared an Incomparable. Poppy Farthingale has made a pact with her two best friends to use The Book of Love to find true love. What makes a man fall in love? The Book of Love holds the answer, or so Poppy Farthingale believes.

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