Waiting For an Earl Like You by Alexandra Hawkins Review

Waiting For an Earl Like You by Alexandra Hawkins

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

       I enjoyed this title. It was a lot of fun and flowed very well.

       Miss Olivia Lydall and her neighbor, Justin Reeve Netherwood, Earl of Kempthorn, known as Thorn, have never much liked each other. Thorn has always considered Olivia a nuisance that trailed after he and his twin brother, Gideon. Olivia has always found Thorn to be too serious for his own good and instead befriended Gideon.

       Deciding Olivia is too smitten with his brother, Thorn pretends to be Gideon in an effort to steer her away. This plan backfired, however, as Thorn gets to know Olivia better and finds himself attracted to her. The only problem is that Olivia believes Thorn to be Gideon. How can he convince her to love him for himself instead of who she believes him to be?

       I found this book to be entertaining from the very beginning. I really liked Thorn and his reserved personality. I thought he was perfect for Olivia's more reckless nature. Trouble followed her everywhere! I fell in love with Thorn and the way he was a much sweeter man than he let on to everyone but Olivia.

       Hawkins definitely did the twin switcheroo right! There were some consent issues (more on that in a moment) but they weren't due to Olivia not knowing who she was with. That is usually the worst part about twin switch romances; the heroine can't really consent because she doesn't really know who she's consenting to. That was not a problem here and it was so refreshing.

      Now, I did have a few issues with this book. I have not read the first two books in this series and there were so many characters in both of the feuding families that at times it was hard to figure out who was who and it brought me out of the story every time.

       I mentioned consent issues. During one scene Olivia keeps telling Thorn no and he just continues kissing her and touching her until she gives in. That's not okay. She should've been able to say no and get him to stop. I did not like that at all.

      The word "quim". It makes me want to barf. You can tell me until you're blue in the face that that was an actual word they used and I still wouldn't care. It's still disgusting.

       Easily the worst thing in the entire book was Olivia's complete TSTL moment. She'd been intelligent but reckless the entire book but her stupidity in one scene negated all of that. Her lack of propriety during the same scene made me grind my teeth. She did the same thing that had gotten her in trouble before! 😡😡😡

       I will be honest; I enjoyed this book but I don't know that I'm going to rush out and get the others in the series or read the next one when it comes out. I'm not ruling that out either, though.

       I received an eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

-Reader