This was a fun setup and start to a new series!!

After Sophie Brightwell and her friends are expelled from their young ladies’ academy, there is little hope for her to make the advantageous match her family so desperately needs her to. They determine their best chance to find husbands lies with the rakes of the ton. Enter Nate Hastings, Viscount Malverne, to tutor Sophie on how to catch a rake. That is, until he begins to lose his heart to her.

I absolutely adore stories that feature the older brother of the heroine’s friend as the hero. That probably has something to do with having had a crush on all of my older brother’s friends at one point or another. This plot device builds tension throughout the story because the heroine tries so hard to keep her feelings hidden from her friend. That is true of Sophie trying to keep her growing feelings for Nate hidden from Charlie and it was delightful to read.

Book-loving heroines are among my absolute favorites and I really liked Sophie. I found it refreshing and realistic that she found herself nervous and blushing when they first started spending time together. That being said, I did feel that she and Nate did certain things rather early on considering how nervous she’d been around him shortly before that. However, that didn’t detract much from the story itself and was more of a personal preference.

I also liked Nate and found his story arc to be the more interesting of his and Sophie’s. I enjoyed the tough love stance his father took in attempting to redeem Nate and his behavior and how it led Nate to make the decisions he made. I thought it was nice to see a hero in a romance that didn’t outright hate his father and did his best to make his father happy after they had a discussion.

Because HOW TO CATCH A WICKED VISCOUNT is the start of Amy Rose Bennett's new Disreputable Debutantes series, there are a lot of characters thrown at readers in a fairly short time and I got a little confused with all of Nate’s friends being introduced at once.

I think I might know the pairing in the next book and I am excited to see if I’m right! I enjoyed HOW TO CATCH A WICKED VISCOUNT and will be continuing with the series!!

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