Lady Bridget's Diary by Maya Rodale Review

Lady
Bridget's Diary

Keeping Up with the
Cavendishes #1

By: Maya Rodale

Releasing
February 23, 2016

Avon

In the first hilarious entry in her
brand new series, USA Today bestselling author Maya Rodale re-invents a love
story we all know and cherish.

Lord
Darcy is the epitome of perfect

Lord Darcy
is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper and
horrified that a pack of Americans have inherited one of England’s most
respected dukedoms. But his manners, his infamous self-restraint and better
judgment fly out the window when he finds himself with the maddening American
girl next door.

Lady
Bridget is the opposite of perfect

Lady
Bridget Cavendish has grand-but thwarted-plans to become a Perfect Lady and
take the haute ton by storm. In her diary, Bridget records her disastrous
attempts to assimilate in London high society, her adoration of the handsome
rogue next door, her loathing of the Dreadful Lord Darcy and some truly
scandalous secrets that could ruin them all.

They
cannot stand each other-and yet they cannot stay away

It was
loathing at first sight for Lady Bridget and Lord Darcy. But their paths keep
crossing...and somehow involve kissing. When Lady Bridget’s diary goes missing,
both Darcy and Bridget must decide what matters most of all-a sterling
reputation or a perfectly imperfect love.

Lady
Bridget Cavendish and her family are taking London by storm and certainly not
in a good way. Her father, being the second son of one of the oldest titles in
England, never expected to inherit and certainly didn't want to give up his womanizing
ways and join the clergy. So he fled to America and there he settled down and
build a successful stables in America. And yet fate is a fickle thing; his son
is now the Duke and with that all of the family are now back in England but, with
their American ways.

Bridget
in the beginning wants disregard the British ways, but after being set down by
Lord Darcy she never wants to feel that way again.

Lord
Darcy is not happy that this American family has taken over his spear and
everywhere he turns. But then the more and more he is around Bridget and the
disasters in her wake. Which leads seriously painful (not literally) proposal,
which understandably she turned down…but is this end for Bridget and Darcy?

I was
torn by this book, I did really enjoy the story, but there were TOO many
similarities between Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice and the Lisa Klaypas book;
It Happened One Autumn, which I found it a little disappointed. The characters
names, the overbearing Aunt and the fact that the American's was looked on like
title grabbing undesirables by the male lead are just the tip of the iceberg
where it comes to being similar.

Other
than that, the writing was smooth and the characters likeable, I just found the
plot a little disappointing. I give Lady
Bridget's Diary 3 stars.

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The London Weekly

Fashionable
Intelligence

By A Lady of Distinction

All
of London is talking about one thing and one thing only: the arrival of the
seventh Duke of Durham. His Grace, we are told, hails from America, of all
places in the world, which begs the question of how this came to be.

Older
readers—or younger readers who bother to visit their aged relatives and
actually listen to them speak of scandals from days of yore—will recollect the
Great Scandal of 1784 in which the sixth duke’s brother, the Lord Harry
Cavendish, beloved rake, absconded to America with the duke’s prize horse. This
horse-thieving younger brother had done a stint in the army, as second sons are
wont to do, especially when they are so obviously unsuited to clergy. Whilst
stationed in the colonies, he happened to fall in love with an American woman.
It was a love so great that he would forsake family, country, membership at
White’s, and a voucher for Almack’s.

After
extensive sleuthing this author has been able to determine that Lord Harry
Cavendish established a farm in Maryland where he bred and trained racehorses,
raised his family and refused to use his title. His son, the new Duke of
Durham, followed in his footsteps.

So
yes, dear readers, a horse farmer from the colonies now holds one of the
loftiest titles in England. His arrival is expected any day now and this author
has it on excellent authority that he is bringing three sisters of marriageable
age. Let there be no conversations about a dull season, for this one is sure to
be most entertaining . . .

Maya Rodale began reading romance
novels in college at her mother’s insistence and it wasn’t long before she was
writing her own. Maya is now the author of multiple Regency historical
romances. She lives in New York City with her darling dog and a rogue of her
own.