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This book starts with mistaken identity: Emily mistakes Jordan, Earl of Blackmore, for her cousin and escort, because both Jordan and the cousin have red hair and are wearing masquerade masks. Jordan mistakes Emily for a lonely widow, since she is in black mourning for her mother. Only when they are alone in a carriage, Emily's reputation already in danger, do they discover the error.

Sometime later, a neighboring lord who controls her father's living and knows a nasty secret about Emily forces her to go to London and pose as the flirtatious Lady Emma. This is a ruse to flush out the blackguard who attempted to elope with the lord's daughter. Emily, who hates lying, doesn't want to go along but is blackmailed into cooperating because of the aforementioned nasty secret.

Emily's/Emma's masquerade is going smoothly until Jordan figures out that "it's the same dame." (Luckily, it doesn't take him too long, otherwise his intelligence would be in serious doubt.) Then she has to try to convince/bribe him to keep her secret, because if he exposes her the dastardly lord will expose the dangerous secret and Emily will suffer a fate worse than ruin.

I didn't really buy into the premise (Emily and everyone else being willing to go along with Lord Evil's plot, nor Emily's success at the masquerade). Also, I'm bored with the hero-totally-luuuuurves-her-but-won't-admit-it-because-his-troubled-childhood-soured-him-on-love trope, especially where it goes along with the we-can-sleep-together-without-regard-for-my-reputation-or-pregnancy-but-I-cant-marry-you-until-you-tell-me-you-luuuuurve-me trope. Whatever. So, this plot was pretty Meh, but it's fairly well written, and since I'm apparently compulsively unable to leave a series unfinished (unless it flat-out sucks toads), it wasn't a waste of time.


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The Forbidden Lord Lord Trilogy Book 2 Sabrina Jeffries 9780380797486 Books Reviews

Emily Fairchild accidentally winds up in the carriage of the Earl of Blackmore at a masquerade ball. Once they discover their error, he believes she is trying to trap him into marriage; he gets a furthur shock to find out she is the daughter of the rector. Emily begins reciting the Bible and quoting scripture. Their paths cross again, but this time Emily is pretending to be someone else(Emma) due to intimidation and threats by Lord Nesfield, who is able to ruin her and her father. Lord Nesfield is using Emily to find his daughter who has run away, supposedly with a man. The role Emily plays is the opposite of her true self, even though she hates the deceit; the Earl of Blackmore, upon seeing Emily again, believes her to be Emily, the rector's daughter, but he can't be sure, the behavior is so different, and he is so stunned by her appearance. Of course Emily denies ever meeting him, which just adds fuel to the fire. The Earl is unable to let her go and begins a relentless pursuit of Emma/Emily.
This is the second book in a loosely-linked trilogy. It stands alone well.

If the previous book subverted the pirate romances, this one is a send-up of the subgenre I think of as "disguised debutante". For some reason, our heroines have to conceal their actual identity and enjoy themselves at a come-out, but accidentally fall in love with the usually-rakish lord. The plot of this one is more than ordinarily complicated and hilarious, because our rector's daughter is forced by circumstances to pretend to be a hoydenish scottish miss.

This book skirts closer to the icky edge of consent than the previous one, but still not so far over that it made me want to put down the book.

The heroine is practical, moral, and kind of an overthinker. The hero is a crusader for human rights, when he's not being a rake. The supporting characters are largely irrelevant except the excellent Scottish aunt.

Read if you want another mistaken-identity wacky-hijinks book, you appreciate a hero who has a soft spot for girls who cry, you like your heroines with backbone.

Skip if you want a straightforward story, you are bothered by enormous class leaps, you have an embarrassment squick.
I enjoyed the first in this trilogy (the Pirate Lord) but this second one was a bit disappointing. I thought the heroine acted inconsistently and some of the story seemed a bit contrived.

Set in England in 1819, it's the story of Emily Fairchild, the upstanding daughter of a country rector, who meets the Jordan, the Earl of Blackmore (we met him in the first book as the brother of Sara, who is now married to Gideon, the Pirate Lord) at a masquerade ball when due to mistaken identity they find themselves together alone in a carriage where he kisses her. As a rector's daughter, Emily knows that such a man is forbidden to her even if his kisses do melt her. When she is forced to take on the identity of a wild Scottish lass, Lady Emma Campbell, in order to help find the man her friend Sophie was about to elope with, Jordan knows the new debutante is really the Emily he has kissed. And it seems he can't stop kissing her. It becomes increasingly hard for her to maintain the disguise as Jordan pursues her and seems determined to reveal the truth.

I did think it bizarre when Emily gives herself to Jordan to buy his silence. It was completely out of character. Though perhaps the author found such a contrivance necessary to get the two together, I found it disturbing. There were also passages that seemed to lag a bit. I'm reading the third one (The Dangerous Lord) now but so far I have to say the first one is the best. Jeffries can write well. Her dialog is snappy, her love scenes well described and enticing and she can weave a good tale. I just think this one took a few left turns.
This book starts with mistaken identity Emily mistakes Jordan, Earl of Blackmore, for her cousin and escort, because both Jordan and the cousin have red hair and are wearing masquerade masks. Jordan mistakes Emily for a lonely widow, since she is in black mourning for her mother. Only when they are alone in a carriage, Emily's reputation already in danger, do they discover the error.

Sometime later, a neighboring lord who controls her father's living and knows a nasty secret about Emily forces her to go to London and pose as the flirtatious Lady Emma. This is a ruse to flush out the blackguard who attempted to elope with the lord's daughter. Emily, who hates lying, doesn't want to go along but is blackmailed into cooperating because of the aforementioned nasty secret.

Emily's/Emma's masquerade is going smoothly until Jordan figures out that "it's the same dame." (Luckily, it doesn't take him too long, otherwise his intelligence would be in serious doubt.) Then she has to try to convince/bribe him to keep her secret, because if he exposes her the dastardly lord will expose the dangerous secret and Emily will suffer a fate worse than ruin.

I didn't really buy into the premise (Emily and everyone else being willing to go along with Lord Evil's plot, nor Emily's success at the masquerade). Also, I'm bored with the hero-totally-luuuuurves-her-but-won't-admit-it-because-his-troubled-childhood-soured-him-on-love trope, especially where it goes along with the we-can-sleep-together-without-regard-for-my-reputation-or-pregnancy-but-I-cant-marry-you-until-you-tell-me-you-luuuuurve-me trope. Whatever. So, this plot was pretty Meh, but it's fairly well written, and since I'm apparently compulsively unable to leave a series unfinished (unless it flat-out sucks toads), it wasn't a waste of time.