We have Georgie who won't marry Gavin unless he loves her. Unfortunately due to the past Gavin does not want to love his wife. He wants a marriage with no love. This leads to friends and family scheming to get these two together. First this is a slow moving romance. Except for the first chapter the Hero and heroine do not interact until about 30% into the book. There are some great funny moments where the family and friends try to get these two together. There is a sex scene about 85% in but it is fairly short and not detailed if that is what you are looking for. There is this side story that seems to be what can cause problems for the H and h but it doesn't happen for a long time and it does not end up as dire as I wanted. It just did not feel as important once we got to it. Lastly, I will say I do not think the title fits the story. It never really comes up that women are after the viscount but maybe once. It felt more like The Meddling Romance with all the family and friends getting involved. It is a decent historical romance but I think there was room for improvement.

This book was a challenge for me to finish reading as it was boring and difficult to get through. The biggest drawbacks for me were the tepid chemistry between Gavin and Georgie and slow moving story. I think the story was just drawn out at times and it stopped moving forward. Even the villain of the story was just meh and did nothing to add to the plot. In short, it was a boring read and very difficult to finish.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review*

The Most Eligible Viscount in London by Ella Quinn (The Lords of London #2) 3.5 stars

The book starts out with Gavin, Lord Turley proposing to Miss Georgiana Featherton (Georgie). Everything is going well until Georgie asks Turley if he loves her. When he falters and goes on about compatibility, etc, she rejects his proposal. What happens after that is the whole plot of the book.

The question of HEA is never in doubt, but how the main characters get there, well that's the rub. It takes the machinations of elderly dowagers and the help of various friends and relatives to get Georgie and Turley marries. I enjoyed this book, but it wouldn't be considered one of my favorites by Ms. Quinn. It is always fun to get glimpses of past characters, but I had trouble remembering who was who. I look forward to the next book in this series.

Thank you Netgalley and Kensington Books for this ARC.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I did not realize it was part of a series, but the one thing I love about historical romance series is that each book is technically a standalone. So there are plenty of reminders of who the other characters are and you don't necessarily have to read the prior books. Though after reading this one, I am definitely going back and reading book 1. I enjoyed the characters, their banter, and the growth of their relationship. The idea of turning down a secured home for a love match was interesting to me and it is the first time I have read a book where the courting has technically already been done and finished. We start out with the proposal and then go back and build a deeper relationship. I enjoyed all the matchmaking. This book just gave me warm fuzzies from page one till the very end. The one sex scene was short and unfulfilling. Honestly we could have done without it for how lackluster it was, but the rest of the story more than made up for the disappointment that was the pretend sex scene. All in all, I would continue to read books in this series and cannot wait for more.

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The Most Eligible Viscount in London is the second book in The Lords of London by Ella Quinn. A romance that is a slow burn, which gives them time to get to know the other in a new way. The heated chemistry was very entertaining to read. The Most Eligible Viscount in London is a well-written historical romance that is sure to leave you wanting more.

Miss Georgie is ecstatic at the idea of Viscount Gavin Turley proposing to her. She knows it's coming and is sure it will bring her nothing but the happy life she's dreamed of.

However, when Gavin's proposal ends up sounding more like a business contract than a declaration of love she starts to doubt his feelings for her, and instead of saying "Yes" she asks Gavin if he loves her.

Gavin has committed to a life without love after seeing his father destroyed after the love of his life, Gavin's mother, died. He doesn't answer Georgie and so she rejects his offer, completely heartbroken.

Gavin is shocked at her rejection and tries to figure out how to win Georgie back without professing a love that he believes he will never have for her. It's obvious to everyone else that Gavin DOES love Georgie and pretty soon Grandmama and family interfere to try and make this couple realize they DO love each other.

The basic premise if this story is good and had a lot of promise, it was a fun concept with a big cast of characters to get to know.

Unfortunately this book didn't work for me. The writing was needlessly wordy and that slowed down long passages of the book. It felt like everything was being explained to the reader in a very basic way with nothing shown that made you feel lije you were there with the characters.

And the romance was very lacking. It's hard for me to believe that this couple was in love or that I even wanted them to be together after the opening proposal scene and honestly it never really got any better.

The Most Eligible Viscount in London
Book 2 in the Lords of London Series
Rating: 2 stars
Thank you to the publisher for the ARC given through NetGalley for review. All opinions are my own.

The Most Eligible Viscount in London started off with a failed proposal, which is rarely seen and I was excited to see how Gavin was going to change Georgie's mind in to accepting his marriage proposal.
Sadly this one fell flat for me. I was bored for most of the story. Gavin and Georgie spend most of the book apart. Also the amount of characters involved in trying to bring them together was a little overwhelming for me. I admit I have not read the first book in the series, but still I kept meeting new characters that really didn't bring much to the story.
There was hardly any romance because when the book starts they have been together for almost a year ( I think? Not quite sure) I would of liked to have seen them meet and get to know each other and understand why Georgie fell in love with Gavin and assumed he loved her too.

I may have done myself a disservice by starting this series on the second book. For me, I was missing greatly some description of the characters physical appearances, the setting, etc. I could not make an image in my mind of the hero and heroine. I loved the main idea of the story, but it dragged on quite a bit as the book went on.

A sweet story, but seemed to drag on a bit with the romance of Gavin and Georgie. This is a continuation of the 1st in the series, so it is best to read in order. The same characters are carried over and the focus is on Gavin and Georgie. They started their romance in the 1st book and Gavin decided that they suited and proposes. He likes Georgie, but has vowed never to love. Love brought only heartache during his youth when his mother passed away and his father never got over it.
Georgie thought the proposal sounds more like interviewing for a position. When she asked if he loves her and Gavin didn’t answer, she knew that this wasn’t the marriage she was hoping for. So the only answer is no!
There are more stories within the main storyline to keep you reading and some characters from other series that will want you to read other books by Ella Quinn.
I am voluntarily posting an honest review after reading an Advance Reader Copy of this story.

One of Ella Quinn’s gifts is the sense of family/community she incorporates in her stories as she has done in The Most Eligible Viscount in London. It is finally Georgie’s time to find her HEA. Yet, it does not come easily. Her love, Gavin Turley, refuses to ‘fall’ in love. Everyone around them looks for signs of whether or not Gavin truly does love for Georgie. Once that is decided, family, friends, and even Georgie, leave Gavin no choice but to ‘work’ through a real courtship with Georgie. The ‘conundrum’ Gavin goes through to admit to himself he really is in love with Georgie is a central theme. He learns a lot about himself, his personal beliefs and his misgivings about love. I loved how Georgie sticks with her conviction of marrying for love.


There are a lot of family and friends involved in The Most Eligible Viscount in London. Although hearing of or reading about former Quinn characters adds to a romance, in this situation, there might have been a few too many. There is a lot going on in this book that tends to draw the reader away from Georgie and Gavin’s romance. I began to skip pages to stay with the story and not read what seemed like ‘filler.’

Although I, generally, love Quinn romances, this one is not one I would want to read again.

Another pretty story from Ella Quinn. However, this story was so light and pretty that it didn’t have much substance. The major misunderstanding occurs in the opening chapter, and there’s very little conflict in the other 97% of the book. It’s a nice story, and very well-written, but it’s primarily filler that I doubt will stay with me.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This is the second book in the Lords Of London series. Georgie was ready to start her life with Gavin. She thought that he loved her. But when he finally gets down on one knee, she is shocked by his proposal. He doesn’t use words of love or caring. When she asks if he loves her, he doesn’t reply. So, she refuses his proposal. But Gavin is determined to have Georgie as his wife, and follows her, to try and persuade her.

I had a hard time getting in to this story. It seems to me to start out slow, and drag on. I was eventually able to get into it, and found I did enjoyed the characters and the story. I think I might have been able to better get into the story if I’d read the first book. But overall the story was good, and had a sweet, happily ever after.

I read book 1 and did enjoy the read but this one took me forever to finish. This is book 2 in the Lords of London series. I was very disappointed. It was very long and slow read. I hate to give it such a bad review but I had a tough time getting through this.

i really loved chatting with Ella about her writing process, her books. The interview will air during publication week.

The Most Eligible Viscount of London had the tropes that I love like marriage of convenience, pining.

I really enjoy the books from this author! It was so exciting to have been given the advanced copy to this one as I really like the first to this series! Georgie and Gavin are a great pair! I loved that they were friends first....even if Gavin hurt Georgie saying he didn’t love her or that he wouldn’t fall in love. But we know this is a romance so he will overcome his unwanted opinion!(hehe) Georgie is such a wonderful, smart, and likable heroine! I was rooting for her to get Gavin’s love! Gavin is a great hero and def swoony! Gavin believes he and Georgie belong together because of their friendship and lust between them. He’s determined to show Georgie that. These two eventually grow from friends to lovers. It was a slow burn to get there but oh so worth it!! This was such a sweet, low angsty story which I loved!! I’m so happy these two got their HEA in the end!! Can’t wait for more from this author!

This book spent so much time explaining the characters and plots of OTHERBOOKS BY ELLA QUINN t hat I was throughly confused.
It listed 6 couples from other books and then their stories were repeated in text!
I like a good series in historical romance but I don’t like to feel as though if I don’t read them all then I’m lost

My second Ella Quinn, I dived into this book right after the first one (about Frits and Adeline). This book is about their best friend’s Georgie and Gavin. It begins with Gavin proposing to an eager Georgie in a very business-like manner. Through the course of his speech she realises he hasn’t mentioned any feelings. She asks if he loves her. He doesn’t answer and she realises he feels nothing for her and rejects his proposal.

In the previous book, we had seen the two characters being paired off constantly during the season and it was pretty much an understood thing that these two are an item. That’s explained quickly in this book and the reader doesn’t feel that they’ve missed anything if they hadn’t read the first one.

The book is an easy pleasant read. There are no major issues or incidents to deal with. Gavin is reluctant to love after seeing what the emotion reduced his own father to after his mother’s death. Georgie does not want to settle for less. After rejecting his proposal, she confides in her family. Her grandmother is a known matchmaker and had helped her sister and brother in securing their partners. She gathers her friends and starts plotting how to get these two together. Georgie is sent off to join her friend Adeline in the country. Frit’s mother was a sort of surrogate mother to Gavin and she too joins the elderly dames in making sure the two have a happy ending.

If at this this point one is anticipating some cute and humorous machinations by the mature ladies for the young couple, then they are in for disappointment. Everything from here is all done in a very proper manner. The ladies give Gavin some wise advice to try again with Georgie and be open to her. He does that. There’s a neighbour’s house party that all the characters are going to attend. There are horse rides, gypsy hunts and informal dinners. The neighbour’s hostess skill and organisation are admired. An Earl (Lord Lytton) looking for his own bride is introduced. He’s not like the previous book’s villain (Lord Anglesey) and actually a rather nice man. You get the impression that he has made appearances in other books as well and finally gets his own happy ending in this one.

I can’t find anything to complain about this book, but I also can’t find anything to recommend it. Like its predecessor it’s a bit too mild and slow for my taste. I don’t always need an action-packed book or one full of angst. I love reading all of Mary Balogh’s books and some of them are pretty sedate in terms of pace like some from the Survivor Club Series. Here though I was very bored. The whole book spanned about a week of Gavin and Georgie meeting every day. We get to see how Frits and Adeline are like as a married couple expecting their first child. They already knew much about one another and learned a few new things. Every exposé just strengthens their opinions that the other is their perfect partner. There isn’t any personal soul searching, deep realisations or revelations about the one another. The repetition of these scenes just started to make my mind wander. Then Georgie is almost abducted, and Gavin realises that he does in fact love her because he can’t bear to lose her. They kiss, make love, are betrothed and get married in two weeks’ time. One hour later I can’t recall much of the book.

This is a solid steady paced regency. The romance is slow to build and if that is what you like then you will love this book as this seems to be the author’s writing style.

I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest and fair review.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
The Most Eligible Viscount in London was a chore to read, and I don’t know if I would have gotten as far as I did if I hadn’t started it at the tail end of the 48-hour readathon event.
For one, I had been warned by a friend who read it before me about the use of the term “g*psy,” a word a non-Romani person should not be using. And the context of it was so ridiculous, as it’s applied to some weird treasure hunt at a house party the characters are attending. The hero and heroine get to virtue signal like, “as long as we’re not actually hunting g*psies,” and then the lady of the house explains it by the fact that her and her friends’ mothers purchased items from the nearby Romani camps and made the children search for them. Isn’t that kind of appropriative or something like that? It felt in bad taste for a book published in 2021, as even if it is a historical romance, you’re writing for a modern audience. And the author seems to want to have her cake and eat it, as there are more of these weird oddly forward thinking virtue signals, like the women expressing a desire to want to vote or have a seat in the House of Lords. It’s funny how the story tries to seem so progressive, yet includes unchecked bigotry.
I could perhaps have partially forgiven this weirdness if the story had been good. But it decided to take one of my least favorite plot devices and make the entire book about it. Gavin proposes to Georgie, but she refuses him because he doesn’t love her. Fine, they haven’t engaged in anything with consequences yet, which is why I typically hate this plot device.
And thank God they didn’t by the time I finally gave up. But the story didn’t progress much in any way. They seemed to have less and less time together as the book wore on. I was constantly questioning why we were here and I really didn’t care if they ever worked out (and of course they do, it’s a freaking romance). But the conflict was pretty much pointless, because of course he does love her, he’s just another hero who made himself detached “because of his past.”
Not to mention all the characters showing up, a lot of them from previous books in Ella Quinn’s interconnected universe. Some of them were fun to see again, but I just didn’t care, and they were just intruding on the story.
After this underwhelming offering, the second in a row from Ella Quinn, I would have been skeptical about trying her again even without the more problematic elements. Those elements are enough to make me swear off her work altogether.

After months of courting Miss Georgiana “Georgie” Featherton is thrilled when Gavin, Viscount Turley, the man she loves, drops to one knee and proposes – but the proposal is lacking emotion, so instead of answering his question, she asks if he loves her and when he doesn’t reply, she rejects his proposal and leaves the room without another word. Heartbroken, she reveals all to her grandmother and agrees to leave town for a bit. While visiting with her dear friend Adeline Littleton – whose husband Frits just happens to be Gavin’s best friend, she is invited to a house party and figures if Gavin doesn’t love her, she must get over her broken heart and hopefully find someone who will.

Gavin is stunned, he believed that Georgie was receptive to his suit and didn’t expect her to want a love match. Gavin likes Georgie and knows she would be the perfect wife – and if he could love anyone, he would love her. But after watching his father fall apart after losing his love, Gavin is not willing to risk his heart. So while he would happily give her the world, love is not something Gavin can give to her – or any woman. He wonders if there is any way, he can convince her to change her mind and when he learns she has gone to a house party with eligible young men, he takes the advice of his friends and goes after her. He ends up staying with Frits grandmother and her friends – who agree to “help” him win Georgie.

This was a very well-written book with a lot of potential to be an amazing story – but for me – it was boring. There are a lot of characters and the author set up many plot points that could have made this an exciting read, but each point was shot down before it could take flight – leading to a book with almost no conflict, drama, or passion. Overall, I found this to be a very vanilla read – pleasant but bland with nothing to get excited about and it is definitely not a book I would read again. This is the second book in the series, but it could easily be read as a standalone title.


*I am voluntarily leaving a review for an eARC that I requested and was provided to me by NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions in this review are my own. *

Gavin, Viscount Turley got down on his knee to propose to Georgie, only that his proposal sounded more like a business arrangement than a marriage one, it lacked sentiment which was why Georgie refused it.

Now he must find a way to make her believe that a marriage between will be everything she would need, even if he can't say that he loves her. All Georgie wants is a marriage based on love, when Gavin says everything but that he loves her, she leaves London in order to clear her head.

A second chance to court her presents itself during a county dinner party and he is determined to attend and not waste it. While spending time together, with the help of a group of determined and well wished ladies, they discovered new qualities about the other.

The romance is a slow burn, which gives them time to get to know the other in a new way. The courting was very entertaining to read, with a lot of details about the process which could be helpful for someone who hasn't read many historical romances.

There were a number of POVs from different characters, it was helpful in a way to understand their action but they also slowed down the book's progress.

* I received a ARC from the publisher through Netgalley.