A Week to Be Wicked (Spindle Cove, Book Two): Tessa Dare

"Unexpected lovers find themselves together in Spindle Cove with A Week to be Wicked--the second book in Tessa Dare's utterly delectable historical romance series.  This Regency Era delight finds a restless British lord desperate to escape the quaint and too quiet small seaside resort he's trapped in...and he gets much more than he expected when he eagerly agrees to escort a beautiful, brilliant, socially awkward lady scientist to Scotland...."

In preparation for posting a few other book reviews (mainly ones I'd read for school) I flipped through a few older reviews on here and noticed that I hadn't reviewed this book yet!  I finished it weeks and weeks ago and cannot believe I never got around to posting a review.  I have a feeling that the reason this happened was because I think I began a review, but left it on my computer at work...  I'll probably end up finding that review later this week and amending this.  For now, the review!

I am afraid that this review will be a bit shorter than previous ones because of the silly delay in my reading it and finally sitting down to review it.

I liked Lord Payne just as much as I thought I would!  His backstory was very rich and his imagination was boundless.  I was very pleased with these characteristics and his outgoing personality.  If you've read my review of the first book in the series, you know that I had an issue with Bram because he lacked a lot of what Colin, Lord Payne, has.  Colin was deep and rich and well-formed, whereas Bram was a bit unbelievable and too undamaged from his time on the battlefield -- especially for a wounded soldier.

Minerva was enthusiastic, intelligent, and socially inept.  Her passion for her work was well-written and remarkable.  I thoroughly appreciate the effort that Dare puts into the inclusion of historical events (and findings) into her works.  So many romance authors use juxtaposition of their characters -- "opposites attract," if you will -- to create simultaneous friction and chemistry.  Dare truly did this in the most amusing and interesting of ways.  Minerva's seriousness and Colin's mischievous nature created some very interesting reading and kindled passion that was so powerful and believable, it was difficult to put the book down.

These two characters were genuinely a few of my favorite that I have ever had the chance to read.  I'm really enjoying Dare's Spindle Cove series and cannot wait to get my hands on the next one.  This is probably a silly excuse to not have begun reading the next in the series, but it's the most expensive one on Kindle for the series...  The cheapskate in me won't let me pay that much for a book I'm going to read only once (not because I don't think I'll like it, but because I really do not ever re-read material).  I'll get around to it someday soon, I'm sure.  I have already recommended Dare's works to a close friend of mine and I'm happy to do so for everyone looking for a good Regency Era historical romance series filled with wit, amusement, and creativity.