One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Lady Philippa Marbury is...odd.

The brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiancé and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two weeks to experience all the rest - 14 days to research the exciting parts of life. It's not much time, and to do it right she needs a guide familiar with London's darker corners.

She needs...a Scoundrel.

She needs Cross, the clever, controlled partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, with a carefully crafted reputation for wickedness. But reputations often hide the darkest secrets, and when the unconventional Pippa boldly propositions him, seeking science without emotion, she threatens all he works to protect. He is tempted to give Pippa precisely what she wants...but the scoundrel is more than he seems, and it will take every ounce of his willpower to resist giving the lady more than she ever imagined.

©2013 Sarah Trabucchi (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishers

Well done and fun.

Slower getting going than others, but a good listen. I enjoyed it and apparently need 11 words to finish this review, so have fun listening.

I love this series! Good read!

If you are looking for adventure and danger with your romance novel, this is a wonderful series.

I love Sarah MacLean, but I loathe the narration

I have tried so much to get used to Rosalyn Landor, but I just find her narration so extremely awful that I cannot finish the audiobooks. I adore all Sarah MacLean's works, but I wish so much they could be re-taped with Mary Jane Wells or Susan Duerden narrating.

First book was better

Loved the premise of this book and adored Pippa as a FMC and even Cross as a MMC but there was just something missing for me…. I’m not sure what the element was, but I didn’t feel the strong pull of the characters love story like I did with borne and Penny. I didn’t dislike the book, just kinda left feeling “meh” “alright that was cute enough and onto the next” …. Hope temples book is better??

Pippa's thirst for knowledge leads her to Love

This book was way better than book 1. It definitely rescued this series for me.

Lady Philippa "Pippa" Marbury is the fourth daughter of the Marguess of Needham and Dolby. She doesn't believe in luck and she believes in scientific explanations for everything. Logic and Truth always wins out in Pippa's world.

She is engaged to the Lord Castleton but decided she wanted to do research on what is necessary to be a proper wife. Pippa deals with her nerves by gathering knowledge so she can feel prepared. She decides to go to the most notorious gaming hall in London, The Fallen Angel, because the owner Jasper Cross is notorious rake.
Pippa asks him to help her with her research on how to please her fiancee as a wife, and thus opening up a pandora's box with Cross.

Cross wasn't nobility but he seemed to be the only one in London who didn't find Pippa to be a nerd, geek or odd. He actually enjoyed engaging her in discussion but he couldn't offer her a life like she could have with Lord Castleton.

What I loved about this one was Pippa's honesty, her strength, her resolve and her curiosity about everything. She made being smart look fun, not odd. I chuckled at her a number of times. She said things people were afraid to say, she was a really good heroine.

Jasper finally met his match and she kept him honest. I liked this story much more than the Pippa's sister in book 1. I look forward to book 3.

Not Disappointed

This is my first Sarah MacLean novel and will not be my last. On top of a good story with strong characters there was clever and entertaining humor throughout. If your looking for lots of sexual scenes, you'll be disappointed, but the book has just enough of that to make the story believable and fun. Rosalyn Landor does here usual fantastic job narrating

I liked it.

What did you love best about One Good Earl Deserves a Lover?

I liked Lady Pippa- she's so bright and well-read with very little understanding of people. Cross has a troubled past- but with highly inappropriate behaviour, she manages to get him to pull out of himself- all very entertaining. One of the most amusing of the stories in this series so far. I recommend it for a credit.

What was one of the most memorable moments of One Good Earl Deserves a Lover?

When Cross is trying to get her to leave by being deliberately rude- a real stretch for him- and she just looks at him and says- 'I wish you would call me Pippa', like he wasn't even talking.

Witty and lovely

I loved this book. It was fun and the characters were great. I love smart heroines and in this case the Hero was smart as well. Buy, of course there is a passel of problems to overcome before love can take its due course. Sarah Maclean is a very good story teller and Rosalyn Landor is one of the best in the business. What could be better in an Audio book, I ask.

Great book.

The storyline is fun and sweet. And the characters is well writtin. The narrator makes the book alive.

Excellent in every way.

I love this story and nobody delivers it better than Rosalyn Landor. I highly recommend it.