Spinster Ever After ~ Review

Spinster Ever After

Spinster Chronicles #7

By Rebecca Connolly

Charlotte Wright is decided - she is going to get married. Now she just has to find the perfect gentleman with whom to fall in love. Having watched the other Spinsters, with a capital S, fall in love and get married she's sure that she'll have no trouble once she settles on who will be her intended. Unfortunately, the men who have surrounded her the last few years just won't do, she needs to call on the Spinsters and get their take on who could be a worthy recipient of her affections. And then she can call on Michael to help her out.

When Charlotte explains her plans, Michael Sandford determines that his friendship with Charlotte is at an end. He won't watch her turn her attention to another man not when he has loved her forever. If only she hadn't refused his offer of marriage because Charlotte Wright never changes her mind, ever. But removing himself from Charlotte is harder than he thought it would be. Every acquaintance he has is also in Charlotte's circle - how is he ever going to get over her?

As Charlotte tries to find love, she is about to discover it is more than a plan put into action. And when she loses her childhood friend, she is left wondering why love has to be so complicated. 

Spinster Ever After is a wonderful addition to the Spinster Chronicles as the final spinster Spinster decides to remake herself. But can she find the love she has decided that she now wants? Or will the love she's always wanted and that was always there continue to escape her notice?  Or will she be too late to claim the love that was always there? Only time will tell in this seventh offering of the series. 

It was enjoyable seeing the rest of the Spinsters in their married states and how they are more than satisfied in their lives. It is also interesting to see how Charlotte grows as a person through this book. Charlotte throughout is still Charlotte and no one can tell her what to do, but just maybe she can be swayed by her friends.

Fans of clean Regency Romance will want to add this to their TBR list. The pacing is good keeping the reader's attention as the action progresses from both Charlotte and Michael's point-of-view. And just a suggestion, read the other Spinster Chronicles before reading this book - you need the backstories to fully appreciate this one.  

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion. All thoughts expressed are my own.

About the Book:

When a man loves a spinster...

Charlotte Wright had had enough. All of her friends have now married, leaving her the lone writer of the Spinster Chronicles who is still a true spinster. So she's decided it is time for her to join the ranks and get married, groom to be determined. She's an heiress, after all. How difficult could it be to find a husband?

Michael Sandford has been there by Charlotte's side from the very beginning, loving her all the while even when she turned down his proposal. When she tells him of her plans to marry and marry soon, he begins to make plans himself. He cannot stand by and watch her marry someone else, so he's decided to distance himself from Charlotte entirely while she hunts for a husband... one that is not him.

And Charlotte doesn't like that one bit.