Give this to Jane Austen fans. This was an enjoyable romance, clean (no spicy bits at all). It was fun. The character development was quite good and the banter was enjoyable. .

A Lady’s Guide To Fortune Hunting
BY Sophie Irwin

I enjoyed this hilarious novel so much! I love historical fiction novels that are readable and that is vibrant and engaging.
The story is about Kitty who is down on her luck and needs to support her four younger siblings. No matter what it takes, she will save her family form ruin. The predicaments and lively banter was a nod to Jane Austen and it was such an addicting read, that was very hard to stop. I cannot believe this was a debut, it was exceptionally well written and will resonate to young readers in this day and age.

Audio book was amazing! Highly recommend

This was a delightful and thoroughly charming book. Recommended for Austen fans who are looking for a modern day twist.

After both her parents die, leaving crushing debts, and then her intended breaks their engagement, Kitty Talbot needs to find another wealthy husband if she is to provide for her four younger sisters. Since she is a realist, known for ‘her quick mind and talent for practical problem-solving’, she sets off for London, where prospects surely abound. She soon finds a promising candidate, but when his older brother intervenes, she agrees to leave young Archie alone in return for Lord Radcliffe’s assistance to find a replacement.

Fortune-hunters are rarely viewed sympathetically in Regency romances (remember Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility?), but Irwin takes on the task with impressive results and an ironic finesse of which Jane Austen would surely have approved. On the one hand, Kitty’s adversaries are a self-centred bunch of snobbish society matrons and their foolish sons, convinced male privilege and double standards are their right. On the other, her motives are defensible, her skill and initiative admirable (as Radcliffe comes to appreciate), and she grows as a character, learning to pay attention to the needs of others and even help when it is against her own best interests. She is a heroic figure.

Highly recommended.

HNR, Issue 101 (August 2022)
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I love a realistic, strong woman as the main character and that's exactly what Kitty is. She doesn't pull any punches, she needs to marry a man with a fortune and she has a VERY limited amount of time to make that happen. She has a couple of strokes of good luck that put her in the path of an old friend's very available brother. Is he the man of her dreams, no, but he will do, that is until his older brother gets involved. While trying to push his brother and Kitty apart Lord Radcliffe might just have a change of heart about her after all.

Very cute and almost quirky story. I was not sure I was going to like it after a few pages in but I fell in the love with the story, London and Kitty before I knew it. This book has something for everyone.

a perfect, fun little regency read. Lots of nods to Austen characters with names and roles. Plenty of frivolous, yet very entertaining side characters. While predictable, I enjoyed Kitty and Lord Radcliffe and all of the fun of "the London Season." Everything is "above board," regarding intimacy scenes...so these are great for patrons who are seeking 'clean' or 'closed door' reads.
Thank you for the ARC!

For fans of Bridgerton and Evie Dunmore, this regency romance features a frank, upfront, and smart protagonist seeking a fortune, even if it has to come with a husband. Supporting four sisters and harboring a huge debt, Kitty Talbot sets her sights on finding anyone that will fit (and pay) her bill. She seeks the help of Lord Radcliffe who reluctantly guides her through the London season and the do's and don't of navigating the ton. These characters and their repartee were a delight to read!

okay color me obsessed. i loved kitty , i loved the banter between her and radcliff. a good regency romance always captures me.

This book was an absolute delight! Fans of Bridgerton will love this take on the Regency Romance.
The reader will fall in love with every one of the characters. However, my favorite was by far Kitty Talbot. She is not your traditional heroine/love interest. She has no time for love and only has her eyes set on the prize. She is ambitious, daring, cunning, and fearless. She is extremely protective of her family and will go any distance for them. She is a flawed character that I couldn't help but root for!
The banter between Kitty and Lord Radcliffe is top-tier and I lived for every one of their interactions. Lord Radcliffe is also a fascinating character, struggling with the weight of responsibility and desperately still trying to obtain his father's approval. However, through his interactions with Kitty, his grows into the leader that his family needs him to be.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting by Sophie Irwin. Pub Date: July 12, 2022. Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟. If you’re a Bridgerton fan, then you need to pick this book up. Set in Regency era during the London scene, this is a hilarious story of a woman’s quest to find love and money to save her family from debt. It’s witty, laugh out loud scenes and character development are spot on and the reader is left being swept away in a time period long past with a swoon worthy ending. I really enjoyed this book! Thanks to #netgalley and #pameladormanbooks for this e-arc in exchange for my honest review. #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #igreads #penguingroupviking #aladysguidetofortunehunting

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for an ARC for an honest review.

First I loved loved LOVED this book! If you are looking for a YA regency romance / Bridgerton baby this book is for you. Sassy female lead with lots of fun banter. This book knows its genre and does a great job at it.

A Lady’s Guide To Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin was a fun, swoony escapist romance. Kitty needs a rich husband to save her family from debt & will do everything in her power to land one. Unfortunately for her. Lord Radcliffe sees right through her plan and will do anything in his power to keep the fortune hunter out of his family. A fun, clever romp!

Thanks to #NetGalley and the publisher for providing a free copy for an honest review.

An intelligent, funny novel. We follow Kitty as she has 12 weeks to find a husband during the London Season, and he must have a fortune. Kitty’s father died and left the family with a mountain of debt. A fun read!

** I received an electronic ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book.

What a delight - from the main characters to their siblings, I want more of these families. In particular, the resolution at the end and the way both characters were able to take charge/save the other in their own ways. I loved the plot development and hope there are more books to come in this series.

After the loss of her parents, Kitty decides she must marry a rich gentleman to save her home and her four sisters. She travels to London and will stop at nothing to obtain her goal. This book took a while to get going. There was basically zero chemistry until about half way through the book, and the same with the main character having any sort of guilt about what she was doing. It was a little backwards in that Radcliffe censures her for trying to marry for money when that was basically every marriage in society at the time. Plus, she really wasn't hiding the fact that she was poor and needed money to any of her suitors.

But, once feelings were being had, and adventures were happening, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading more from this author.

Thank you to the publisher! I was so excited to read this book and after seeing the cover in people’s videos I couldn’t wait. It definitely feels a little bit of my Bridgerton esque which is something I love for a change, but wish it had a little more romance. I liked Kitty’s character and it felt very cozy.

2 stars. Very frustrating with a lot of wasted potential.

An amazing historical romance book is hiding somewhere inside this novel… It just wasn’t let out to play!

This book has a very slow start, which I didn’t mind, as it was doing a great job at setting up the story. Similarly, the writing style could be seen as pretentious and trying too hard. But to me it read more like over-the-top, sarcastic, almost witty humour. And as such, it worked very well! It was very funny. . . . For the first 30%.

After that the book just stalled, it kept going around in circles - replaying the same moments over and over again - without ever moving forwards and just throwing in meaningless side stories along the way. I was incredibly bored. And the writing style started to become very tedious to read.

The romance was less slow burn, than no burn at all! Everything was very surface level. It had so much potential, it could have been so swoonworthy, all the pieces were there! But it just didn’t work and I didn't really care in the end. The romantic plot was barely moving and neither cute nor sexy. Not even funny!

They are both very intelligent, which makes for great banter because they are so equally matched! The writing has this great bite to it when they interact. Sadly, all their moments are cut short and summarised in a few sentences! We don't get to spend any quality time with them!

I also think it's such an odd choice to make this a closed door romance. It feels off structurally and makes no sense, given how openly and non-judgemental the book discusses the female protagonist’s mother's life as a courtesan! (Not a spoiler. The reader finds out about that right at the start.)

Every now and then the book tries to delve into a discussion about money and women's place in society. But it never goes anywhere meaningful.

Overall, it was just so bitty! There are too many little snippets and none get enough room to fully develop. We just moved on to the next bit. And the romance was practically non-existent. It just felt so directionless!

I wonder who the audience for this book is supposed to be? There isn't enough romance for the historical romance readers and not enough plot or social commentary for the historical fiction readers. I enjoy both genres and still felt very unsatisfied and let down by it. This book just doesn't know what it wants to be. There are too many different things happening and none of them are truly successful.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a digital arc for a review.

Reading about a woman trying to marry a rich man to help save her family was vastly entertaining (and inspiring, just kidding, but idk maybe). I enjoyed the setting and pretty much all of the characters. Of course, the main winner is Kitty, the fortune hunter herself. She was clever, funny and determined to land a rich gentlemen. Seeing her learn about all of the tricks of how to elevate herself in high society was fun to read. This book was easy to get lost in and I found myself continuing to read more pages (even when I had plans to stop reading for the night).

I really liked James as well. He was determined to stop his younger brother from marrying Kitty but somehow found himself involved in her schemes to help her out with other gentlemen. Their little moments together were very cute but the reason why it's only getting a 4 from me was because I simply craved more. I went in this knowing it was a clean romance so it wasn't a surprise but I just wish we had some more interactions from them. Perhaps I'm greedy.

Penniless and jilted, with four younger sisters to support, Kitty Talbot charms her way into the London season in pursuit of a man with a fortune. What she doesn’t expect is Lord Radcliffe, who recently returned to London and is intent on foiling Kitty’s plans. When she realizes she has been caught, Kitty makes a deal with Radcliffe, blackmailing him into becoming her ally. As the season progresses and their families become more intertwined, Kitty is forced to ask herself how far she will go to secure a fortune and is she willing to compromise her heart for it?

I absolutely adored this book! It was funny, smart, romantic, and had the perfect dash of satire. Irwin’s prose was gorgeous, truly Austen-esque, and the character development and sub-plots were great. I especially enjoyed the dynamic with the younger siblings, both of whom made me laugh out loud more than once. This is regency romance at its best–I need a movie adaptation.

If you are a fan of Bridgerton, but also like things slightly more literary, I think you will love this book. I cannot wait for Sophie Irwin’s next one! Thank you Netgalley and Viking for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.