Thank you Netgalley and Forever Grand Central Publishing for the ARC. All thoughts are my own.

I have loved the Wild Wynchester series from the very first book! I am so happy to have been given the opportunity to read this before publication (though now I have to wait longer for Jacob's book ;( so I guess you win some and you loose some). That being said as usual this was a perfect blend of found family, diversity, and just plain fun!

The plot was a bit silly with the "villain" but in a very fun way and in a way that was semi-believable.

This had an FMC who was hinted at being pan? And notably had a disability that she did not let stop her, and a MMC who has anxiety.

Overall this was a fun diverse read that I thoroughly enjoy and very much recommend. I am now eagerly awaiting any and all information related to Jacob's book!!

As a newcomer to the series, I struggled to connect with the characters mentioned in the beginning of the book. It felt like there was a larger context that I was missing out on. However, as the story unfolded, I found myself engrossed in the charming and comedic plot, making it a worthwhile read for fans of romcoms.

"Hot Earl Summer" by Erica Ridley is another delightful installment in the Wynchester series, filled with humor, adventure, and romance. While not my favorite in the series, it's still a fun read that fans of the Wynchester family won't want to miss.

Elizabeth Wynchester, the sword-wielding heroine also known as "Beth the Berserker," takes center stage in this book. Her mission to retrieve a missing will and protect a castle leads her to the reclusive inventor Stephen Lenox, who is guarding the castle in his cousin's absence. What follows is a wild and wacky adventure as Elizabeth and Stephen navigate hidden traps, thwart enemy attacks, and uncover their own feelings for each other. The scenes of war were not my favorite, but they don't dominate the narrative.

And now only Jacob's story is left to tell (finally!). Can't wait for more from Erica Ridley!

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

“I love you two thousand percent and rising. You’re phenomenal and fearless and...How did you get into my house?” (Perfect line alert)

What a fun book! I adore the cover & title (although technically it doesn’t relate to the MMC, it’s pretty funny). I had read the previous book in the series (My Rogue to Ruin) & was excited to revisit the Wynchester family.

This couple was very wacky & I loved them for it (especially Stephen, my beloved muscly tinkerer). They had really great banter!

I found Elizabeth on her own to be a bit.. como se dice.. annoying! That was really my biggest gripe with the book. She was stubborn to the point of hardheadedness most of the time. I also don’t find hating babies/kids to be entertaining so that humor was lost on me.

Thank you to Forever/Grand Central Publishing & NetGalley for a chance to reach this ARC!

We are back with the Winchesters. Elizabeth has been sent by herself to help out a client when she meets Steven. Since they both have very unique quirk’s and personalities they didn’t expect they would mesh so well. Soon they find out they can’t live without each other. Wonderful story.

Elizabeth "Beth the Berserker" Wynchester lives to maim those who have wronged her family and their clients, running cases to right wrongs for those in need. She is fiercely loyal to her siblings, accepting their oddities while burdened and plagued with her own flaws that she does her best to hide.

Stephen Lenox, cousin to the Earl of Densmore, gets scammed into running the castle while the Earl gambles his life away. An IOU for the castle deed is won by Richard Reddington and when he comes to call, chaos ensues. Stephen is left to defend the castle against Reddington's troupe of war reenactors while Elizabeth is hired by the Earl's aunt to find her late sister's missing will claiming she has rights to the property.

Elizabeth and Stephen are a hilarious pairing with their own eccentricities that causes some inane scenes to take place. This book was comical, entertaining, and very easy to read. It was also refreshing to read a historical romance that doesn't promote pregnancy and child rearing and includes disability portrayal. It is the fifth in this series of standalones and I did not feel lost or confused due to not reading the previous books.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever for the ARC, it was a very enjoyable read and I look forward to Jacob's installment next summer!

I absolutely adored this book! The main female character, Elizabeth, is a strong, powerful swordswoman who is living with chronic pain. She’s also a plus sized babe. I couldn’t possibly have rooted for her more. Her relationship with Stephen was adorable, and I loved that they both supported and were genuinely enthusiastic about the things the other loved doing.

Once the rest of the Wynchester family arrived, it just got even more fun and chaotic. While this is definitely not the most historically accurate historical romance, it’s an incredibly fun time.

Also, thank you, Erica Ridley, for not utilizing the ever-tiring misunderstanding trope to cause a third act split. The challenges Elizabeth and Stephen faced were reasonable and emotional and I loved reading as they worked through them.

I haven’t read the previous books in the series, but now I definitely will.

This book is totally bonkers and a complete delight. Erica Ridley's Wynchester series is really great. The books are romantic, funny, and diverse (with BIPOC, LGBT, and disabled characters), with a group of adopted siblings solving cases that get ignored by the establishment.

Elizabeth Wynchester is feeling a bit lost as her siblings pair off with partners. She'd like to find someone herself, but she's not sure she ever will. She's given a case where she needs to locate a missing will and make sure a castle goes to the right owner. She heads to the castle, expecting to find the Earl of Densmore and ready to use her excellent sword skills to solve the case. Instead, she finds the Earl's cousin Stephen Lenox, an inventor who's been stuck in the castle for months after his cousin asked him to pretend to be the Earl for a few days.
Elizabeth and Stephen quickly form an alliance to find the missing will and protect the castle from a violent neighbor who believes he now owns the castle.

Their growing relationship is really well done. They have great chemistry, and they're both sort of unusual characters for a historical romance. She lives with chronic pain every day, and she's also an expert with swords and knives (and has no qualms about using them). Stephen is a talented inventor and a loner who welcomes his unusual new partner. There's an immediate attraction between the two, and I loved reading about them dancing around that attraction.

This is such a great series, and this book is my favorited in the series so far. I definitely recommend it.

Seriously fun read – an action/adventure Regency romance, but told with a playfulness, and a modern feminist view not often found in stories of the genre. This is book #4 of the Wynchester family – but also reads as a stand-alone novel. Each member gets their own adventure and HEA; this book is Elizabeth’s turn.

Elizabeth is hilariously blood-thirsty. Stephen is a gentle, reclusive inventor. And both of them are also smart, strong, and emotionally intelligent. They also suffer from issues of abandonment, loneliness, and a deep desire to be accepted for who they are. Clearly, they are perfect for each other. Their playful banter is delightful . Their adventures hunting for clues and building contraptions are great entertainment. And the defense of the castle (with the assistance of the entire Wynchester clan) is spectacular.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for an advance copy of this fast-paced, immensely-readable novel.

All the madcap energy I’ve come to expect from the Wynchester family, and this ended up being the one I’ve enjoyed the most since the first! Elizabeth is a really well-written portrayal of a character who suffers with chronic pain and crashes, and it was excellent to be in her perspective. I loved lonely inventor Stephen too, and the two of them had so much chemistry. There’s a treasure hunt, an evil renactment general hellbent on warfare, and a whole bunch of improbable contraptions – probably my favourite of the series so far!

Another fun travel with the Winchesters. This time Elizabeth finds her soul mate. The journey begins when she is sent to help because all of the others are busy. Great set up for this romance. Different action.

Okay, I have it on record that Tommy Wynchester is the love of my life, but I'm pretty sure Elizabeth is now tied with Tommy as my fav. I'm truly obsessed with her, from her being at kill mode at any time to her absolute thirst for Stephen, I was just obsessed. As someone who also has chronic pain (though not to the same degree as Elizabeth), this book really spoke to me and I was absolutely bawling at some parts. I knew that I was going to love this one going into it, but I didn't have any idea how much this book would mean to me.

What a romp! Elizabeth is a Winchester. They are a motley group of siblings who solve problems. Elizabeth is sent on a mission by herself to rescue a castle from Reddington, a pretend soldier who wants to do a a reenactment of the battle of Waterloo. At the castle she meets Stephen, who is impersonating his cousin. Confused? Go read the book and enjoy a different kind of HEA!

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Publishing for this ARC!

I've read the first of the Wynchester series, based on a good review on r/romance Reddit and was not disappointed - as someone who greatly enjoys historical romances that have just a little bit more going for them, Erica Ridley's series is right up that alley! And I have to admit, I personally am favored towards the illustrative covers, rather than the big hulking men on most historical romances - so I hadn't even realized this was the same series until after picking it up.

We're back with Elizabeth Wynchester, the warrior of the siblings, while also suffering from a chronic illness that impacts her whole body - the medical doctor in me really wanted to diagnose, but an anthropology class once taught me that diagnosing into the past was not always the fairest placement of labels. (I vote autoimmune-y). Our MMC is one of my favorite tropes, a hot nerdy inventor, who is a little bit grump and a lot of bit adorable. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, Stephen has built a ton of traps and inventions into the castle that are actively working against her body. And their individual philosophies put them at inherent odds. The two are overt flirters - this is not one of those regency romances where they simper around passions for chapters. Elizabeth is always to the point, and I, like many other romance readers, love a woman who wants sex and is willing to say so. All in all, a fantastic new release to an already quite original Victorian romance series that I devoured rapidly - and reminds me to go back and read up on our other siblings' love stories.

Fun-loving story which held my interest from start to finish. The banter between Elizabeth and Stephen is often hilarious and had me laughing out loud. Elizabeth is outgoing and determined, while Stephen is shy and prefers his solitary life and this is definitely a story where opposites attract! I enjoyed following the development of the relationship between the main characters and loved the final chapters. This is a wonderful addition to the Wynchester saga.
I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

This series - the Wild Wynchesters - has been a bit hit or miss for me. I've liked all of the books that I've read, but I haven't *loved* all of them. But oh, did I love this, the story of the Wynchester I'd been waiting to see take center stage. Elizabeth Wynchester is a masterful swordswoman and a brave, bold, somewhat outrageous character. She also self-identifies as a person with a disability, which isn't called an autoimmune disease in this book (because this predates the concept by about a century) but appears to me (a person with a disability that looks a whole lot like Elizabeth's) to be some kind of autoimmune disease with a chronic pain component. I'm not sure that I have ever felt so represented in a book as I felt with this one, just because Elizabeth's experience as she describes it (particularly her use of percentages to express how she feels at a given moment and her borderline obsession with not being defined by her disability) is so much like mine. Ridley does something masterful here, because every time I was getting a little too emotional about Elizabeth's pain, something totally ridiculous would happen. Elizabeth has been dispatched on her own (her first solo Wynchester mission - they're getting too popular!) to try to help deal with a dispute over a castle. The lord who ostensibly owns the castle gave it away in a card game, but according to the woman who retained the Wynchesters (the earl's maternal aunt), it was promised by her late sister to her to be used as an orphanage. Instead of the actual lord of the manor, she finds Stephen Lenox, a brilliant but reclusive inventor who was asked by his cousin, the earl, to impersonate him against any claims from their neighbor - a military re-enactor who happens to be the one who won the castle in a card game. From the moment that Elizabeth takes her battle-axes to the door of the castle, she and Stephen have a connection that just grows along with their friendship and their adventure to protect the castle. This was fun and often silly and I loved Elizabeth and Stephen and how delightfully weird they were and how vulnerable they decided to be with one another. I'm so glad to have read Elizabeth's book!

I want to start off this review saying I think that the title was hilarious.

This is the fifth book in a series, but it seems like you can read each one as a stand alone if you wish, as it focuses on one of the six Wynchester siblings. I have not read any others in this series.

Elizabeth Wychester is sent to the Earl of Densmore’s castle by his aunt Ms Oaks to help retrieve the will of her late sister, and the deed to the castle. Ms Oaks sister bequeathed the castle to her in the will so that she may realize their dream of opening an orphanage. However the will is hidden and a series of clues need to be uncovered as well as solved to find the document. Also the Earl of Densmore gambled the castle away to his neighbor, “His Grace” Reddington. Now with enemies closing in, Densmore flees and asks his cousin, Stephen Lenox, to pose as him in his absence. While Stephen is hiding in the castle, Miss Oaks seeks the help of the Wynchesters to retrieve the missing documents and protect it from Reddington’s wrath. Along the way Elizabeth and Stephen start to fall for one another and begin to contemplate if their independent lifestyles are actually what they want.

Both Elizabeth Wychester and Stephen Lenox have backstories of feeling useless, unloved, and unwanted. I truly felt bad for both of these characters with their respective struggles. Elizabeth struggled with chronic pain and not wanting to be viewed as weak. I had a hard time getting past Elizabeth’s cartoonish behavior and her bloodlust, the bloodlust was a bit much honestly. Stephen struggled to be accepted for who he is, instead of what others want him to be. I liked Stephen more than Elizabeth, but his dialogue was cringey at times.

This book just missed the mark for me. I am a huge fan of historical romance, but I had a hard time getting past the cartoonish characters and the dialogue bordered on absurd. I liked the mystery/puzzle solving element of this story and honestly that is what kept my attention and kept me reading the book. I also thought some parts of this book dragged, it seemed to take awhile to get to the battle and then the battle itself took a long time. I honestly thought this section could have been cut down by about 70 pages and it would have still gotten the point across that the battle was strenuous and lengthy.

I give this a 3/5, I was excited to read this based on the description, but found it lackluster.

I thought this was a fun book! Stephen is a tinker/ inventor who’s making sure no one enters his cousins castle while he’s away. Then Elizabeth literally takes an axe to the door to get in! That’s a fun way to have the characters meet! Elizabeth is at the castle trying to find Stephen’s aunts will and deed to the castle so it can be turned into an orphanage. All the while the neighbor next door is laying siege to fight for the castle. And let’s not forget the romance which I found the characters to be straight forward about which is refreshing in an historical romance. A must read!

I love the Wynchester series and was extremely excited about this book, but unfortunately, it was a bit of a letdown for me. I didn’t really believe the romance between. Elizabeth and Stephen, mostly because Stephen was not a well-developed character. Until about 50% into the book, the basis for the relationship seemed to be his abs. That was it. His personality was pretty flat, and all Elizabeth ever talked about was his body.

Things did pick up around the 50% mark, though I still found myself skipping chapters because they seemed repetitive. Stephen’s personality finally started to emerge, and it felt like there was more to their relationship than great abs. It wasn’t until 70% that things were really cooking, though, and that was when the rest of the Wynchesters arrived. I don’t think it worked well to have the rest of the family missing for so much of the book. I know it’s a romance, but a big part of the appeal of this series is the family, and they were MIA for too long. Once they arrived, I flew through the rest of the book. The battle was glorious, and I liked how Elizabeth had to come to some realizations and make a grand gesture. This book would have been three stars from me, but the last 30% bumped it up to four.

Thanks to the author for providing an eARC via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

Long live the Wynchesters! Erica Ridley’s ’Hot Earl Summer does not disappoint. I was so excited to read this book. The family of the Wynchesters in a daring group of orphans that grew up together adopted by an eccentric rich man. They work together to right wrongs. Like a Victorian ATeam. This particular story has Elizabeth, the swashbuckling sister (who has some physical limitations, the she hates) and Stephen genius tinkerer with a hot body. They band together to save his cousin’s castle from the evil neighbor, so the Wynchesters’ client can start an orphanage. There is banter and sexy times. And it is impossible not to want one of the MC to be your. (Book boyfriend, book girlfriend, I couldn’t decide). Love love love it. Can’t wait for the next one. (I read an ARC)