{"id":26057,"date":"2020-08-05T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=26057"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:58:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:58:57","slug":"review-the-unexpected-heiress-by-kaitlin-oriley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/review-the-unexpected-heiress-by-kaitlin-oriley\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Unexpected Heiress by Kaitlin O\u2019Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The latest American sensation to grace London\u2019s ballrooms, Meredith Rose Remington has beauty,\u00a0wit\u2014and a shocking secret. At her aunt\u2019s insistence, Meredith is posing as an oil heiress, but she is utterly destitute. In truth, Meredith would rather spend her time writing than trying to snag a wealthy husband. Yet the stranger who flirts so outrageously with her in Hamilton\u2019s Book Shoppe surpasses even the heroes of her vivid imagination . . .<\/span>
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Phillip Sinclair, the Earl of Waverly, has seen ambitious heiresses come and go. Only the enchanting Meredith could make him curb his reckless ways and settle down. But jealous rivals and meddling gossips are far from the only obstacles that must be overcome if love is to secure a happy ending . . .<\/span><\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Release Date:<\/strong> Jul 28, 2020
Series:<\/strong>\u00a0Hamilton Cousins
<\/em>Book: <\/strong>3
Heat Level:<\/strong>\u00a0N\/A
Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Kensington\u00a0
Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Zebra Books
Price:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.99<\/p>\n

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Ego, vanity, and exclamation points galore!<\/em><\/p>\n

See, I\u2019ve got the exclamation point bug. This is my first O\u2019Riley and most likely my last. The book started out with a positive note, an American heiress. Meredith Remington\u2019s just lost her father and uncle in an accident. Oh, btw they have also lost their fortune. But sweet Aunt Delilah has the solution: to run for England, omit the fact the money is gone, and find rich husbands. It\u2019s supposed to a fun twist on the \u2018hero in need of a rich wife trope\u2019.<\/p>\n

Except\u2026 it fell flat. Besides the fact the heroine and her aunts love to use exclamation points all over the place in conversation. These people, demur, upper class, rich love to shout\u2014 not in my experience. Add in conversations that resolve solely around a horrible meet cute involving flirting with eyes that went on for three pages and I was frustrated.<\/p>\n

Both hero and heroine bounce back and forth around their feelings, what they want, and what they think not like folks in their twenties, but more like teenagers. There\u2019s a decided air of forced dialogue, constant re-hashing of the same problems and topics, which smacked of a lack of plot. At least a plot with no purpose. Thirty percent of the way through and both the main characters have shared three scenes together.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, fans of this author may already be invested in these characters from previous books, but for me this was a disjointed mess that I couldn\u2019t sink into without constantly wondering what was the point.<\/p>\n

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At her aunt\u2019s insistence, Meredith is posing as an oil heiress, but she is utterly destitute. In truth, Meredith would rather spend her time writing than trying to snag a wealthy husband. Yet the stranger who flirts so outrageously with her in Hamilton\u2019s Book Shoppe surpasses even the heroes of her vivid imagination . . .<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Phillip Sinclair, the Earl of Waverly, has seen ambitious heiresses come and go. Only the enchanting Meredith could make him curb his reckless ways and settle down. But jealous rivals and meddling gossips are far from the only obstacles that must be overcome if love is to secure a happy ending . . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dnf-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p> <hr \/> <p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Jul 28, 2020<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Hamilton Cousins<br \/><\/em><strong>Book: <\/strong>3<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong>\u00a0N\/A<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Kensington\u00a0<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Zebra Books<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong>\u00a0$7.99<\/p> <hr \/> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ego, vanity, and exclamation points galore!<\/em><\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See, I\u2019ve got the exclamation point bug. This is my first O\u2019Riley and most likely my last. The book started out with a positive note, an American heiress. Meredith Remington\u2019s just lost her father and uncle in an accident. Oh, btw they have also lost their fortune. But sweet Aunt Delilah has the solution: to run for England, omit the fact the money is gone, and find rich husbands. It\u2019s supposed to a fun twist on the \u2018hero in need of a rich wife trope\u2019.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Except\u2026 it fell flat. Besides the fact the heroine and her aunts love to use exclamation points all over the place in conversation. These people, demur, upper class, rich love to shout\u2014 not in my experience. Add in conversations that resolve solely around a horrible meet cute involving flirting with eyes that went on for three pages and I was frustrated.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both hero and heroine bounce back and forth around their feelings, what they want, and what they think not like folks in their twenties, but more like teenagers. There\u2019s a decided air of forced dialogue, constant re-hashing of the same problems and topics, which smacked of a lack of plot. At least a plot with no purpose. Thirty percent of the way through and both the main characters have shared three scenes together.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bottom line, fans of this author may already be invested in these characters from previous books, but for me this was a disjointed mess that I couldn\u2019t sink into without constantly wondering what was the point.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3fvDcCX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-unexpected-heiress\/id1509329820?mt=11&app=itunes&at=11l88k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-unexpected-heiress-kaitlin-oriley\/1134434812?ean=9781420144680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-unexpected-heiress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Kaitlin_O_Riley_The_Unexpected_Heiress?id=XIq5DwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}