ARC REVIEW: King of the South (Belgrave Dynasty #1) by Calia Read.
TITLE: King of the South
SERIES: Belgrave Dynasty #1
AUTHOR: Calia Read
GENRE: Romance | Historical Romance
PUBLICATION: February 21st, 2020
Synopsis
The year is 1919, and the Great War has ended. As everyone picks up the pieces of their lives, I have only copious amounts of alcohol and women keeping me together.
Most of the men I went to war with didn’t make it home, including my best friend, Miles. I thought I knew everything about him until I discovered he made me the executor to his little sister Rainey’s dowry.
Rainey Pleasonton is anything but pleasant. Most men in Charleston found her wild and carefree ways to be terrifying, which explained why she was twenty-eight and still unmarried.
I have sixty days to help her find a husband before she loses her inheritance, her family’s legacy, and I lose the last of my sanity.
The only problem is, I’ve watched her go from a little girl who chased us around with a bow and arrow to the only woman in the South immune to my charm. And the men who were once scared of Rainey? They now find my le savauge beguiling, and I do not care for it one bit …
Most of the men I went to war with didn’t make it home, including my best friend, Miles. I thought I knew everything about him until I discovered he made me the executor to his little sister Rainey’s dowry.
Rainey Pleasonton is anything but pleasant. Most men in Charleston found her wild and carefree ways to be terrifying, which explained why she was twenty-eight and still unmarried.
I have sixty days to help her find a husband before she loses her inheritance, her family’s legacy, and I lose the last of my sanity.
The only problem is, I’ve watched her go from a little girl who chased us around with a bow and arrow to the only woman in the South immune to my charm. And the men who were once scared of Rainey? They now find my le savauge beguiling, and I do not care for it one bit …
My Review
'KING OF THE SOUTH'
is the first full length historical romance book in Calia Read's 'Belgrave Dynasty' duet. Spoken in 'Dual Perspectives.'
Follow over characters which I loved seeing again from, Echoes of Time it felt like coming home after a leave of absence, how I love all these characters! Admittedly I’ve not read a lot of historical novels but if this author rewrote the phone book I’d make sure to read it! Like magic she waves her wand and I fall in love with her writing.
If Cupid’s arrow didn’t strike Livingston you can make sure Rainey’s arrow will leave its mark! I loved their banter, like a tennis match the backwards and forwards between them made for a light hearted read. So many times I just closed my ipad and just sighed. Childhood friends to more are my kryptonite if done right and this was just perfection at its best!!
Follow over characters which I loved seeing again from, Echoes of Time it felt like coming home after a leave of absence, how I love all these characters! Admittedly I’ve not read a lot of historical novels but if this author rewrote the phone book I’d make sure to read it! Like magic she waves her wand and I fall in love with her writing.
If Cupid’s arrow didn’t strike Livingston you can make sure Rainey’s arrow will leave its mark! I loved their banter, like a tennis match the backwards and forwards between them made for a light hearted read. So many times I just closed my ipad and just sighed. Childhood friends to more are my kryptonite if done right and this was just perfection at its best!!
It's after the Great War, not only has Rainey lost her brother to the war but Livingston comes back a different man, plagued by nightmares and drinking excessively he's not the man Rainey knew. Upon the reading of her brothers will it stipulates that twenty eight year old Rainey finds a suitable husband within sixty days and will be granted a dowry of $60,000. Putting Livingston an executor of the funds.
Putting these two in the same room as each other is disastrous. You would think they were siblings with the way they bicker! I've called Rainey le savauge since she was a little girl because she's ferocious and untamed. Her tongue was as sharp as her mind. Her confidence as big as her opinions.
Let the games begin when a Bachelor Ball is underway...
In every possible way, Livingston and I are a terrible match. I wake up early, and Livingston sleeps the day away. His shirks his duties, while I prefer to be on time to every event. Livingston is Charleston's number one womanizer. I am Charleston's untamed debutante
* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
Putting these two in the same room as each other is disastrous. You would think they were siblings with the way they bicker! I've called Rainey le savauge since she was a little girl because she's ferocious and untamed. Her tongue was as sharp as her mind. Her confidence as big as her opinions.
Let the games begin when a Bachelor Ball is underway...
In every possible way, Livingston and I are a terrible match. I wake up early, and Livingston sleeps the day away. His shirks his duties, while I prefer to be on time to every event. Livingston is Charleston's number one womanizer. I am Charleston's untamed debutante
* Teaser used is off the authors facebook page *
