{"id":3128,"date":"2019-07-12T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2019-07-12T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T18:54:39","slug":"book-review-lady-in-waiting-by-marie-tremayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Lady in Waiting by Marie Tremayne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34732756-lady-in-waiting\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1507354701l\/34732756._SX98_.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Lady in Waiting (Reluctant Brides, #1)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34732756-lady-in-waiting\">Lady in Waiting<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16644292.Marie_Tremayne\">Marie Tremayne<\/a><br><br>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2892108601\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>\nA rather unusual premise: the heroine is about to be forced into an unwanted marriage with a despicable man and, to avoid the wedding, she runs off to become a housemaid in a reclusive earl&#8217;s household in the country. Naturally, the &#8220;housemaid&#8221; and the earl fall in love.<br>I realize that &#8220;grounded in reality&#8221; is not a phrase a reader ever uses with respect to a Regency romance, but I found it difficult to believe that a young woman from an aristocratic household would convincingly pass off as a housemaid, even an inexperienced one. I also found it difficult to believe that an earl would ever think about marrying one of his housemaids, no matter how persuasively the author wrote the love story.<br>That being said, the characters are charming and likable, the plot was no less a flight of fantasy than most romances, and I give the author points for the premise. It was a fun read. I rate the book 3.5 stars.<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady in Waiting by Marie Tremayne My rating: 4 of 5 stars A rather unusual premise: the heroine is about to be forced into an unwanted marriage with a despicable man and, to avoid the wedding, she runs off to become a housemaid in a reclusive earl&#8217;s household in the country. Naturally, the &#8220;housemaid&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[537,181,182],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-marie-tremayne","tag-regency-romances","tag-romances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-Os","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}