Quick review: Fun road-trip romance with a spunky outspoken heroine and a jaded hero.
I really enjoyed Outrageous by Minerva Spencer. It took me a little while to really get in to it-the heroine is 16 years younger than the hero and it felt a little squicky, but it was something that was addressed and turned in to a joke, and by the end of the book I was over it.
Eva de Courtenay is 19 and wants to protect her brother from the Earl of Vesil, Godric, who has been antagonizing him all Season, so she kidnaps him. Only a day out Godric is free of her, and now that they've been alone together in a carriage her reputation is ruined, so off to Scotland they go to get married, since he's suddenly seen the error of his ways. (Side note - his villiany is entirely off-page and I believe a major plot of the book preceding this one which I haven't read. In the first chapter he "wakes up" and realizes he's being ridiculous, which is a little "hand-wavey" but I let it slide for romance reasons.) On their way to Scotland they are besieged by pretty much every calamity that can happen to a carriage, and overall the whole book is just shenanigans, which is a lot of fun to read.
Quick facts: Dual POV; not crazy-steamy but definitely not closed-door, either. There are like 4 intimate encounters with sex-on-page.
I enjoyed this book a lot, and will be reading the next book for sure!
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