Review: A Gentleman Says "I Do" – Amelia Grey

A Gentleman Says “I Do” by Amelia Grey
Series:  The Rogue’s Dynasty #5
Release Date:  May 1, 2012
Publisher:  Sourcebooks
Source:  NetGalley
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Iverson Brentwood has finally met his match. Catalina Crisp heats his blood like no other lady. Her alluring countenance has stopped him dead in his tracks. But no matter how attracted he is to her, he can’t give into his desire to possess her in every way…she is the daughter of the man he’s sworn to destroy.

Catalina’s father is a well-known writer, but wastrel whose disappearances continuously put them close to destitution. Something drastic must change, so it is with quill in hand, that Catalina completes her father’s latest parody of Iverson and Matson Brentwood’s spectacular arrival in London. When the story hits the newsprint, a darkly handsome man is at her door, looking for her father.

Seeing the dashing rogue in the flesh, for a bewildering moment dallying with the rake seems like the perfect fictional escape—and it’s all she can do not to give into the madness of the intriguing man.

Reviewer’s Thoughts:

Iverson Brentwood, the Rake of Baltimore, returned to London with his twin with the hopes of building their shipping empire on home soil.  What he’s returned to is being fodder for the gossip mill because of his similar appearance to a certain member of society who is not his father.  Hope of the gossip ceases ends when a poet by the name of Sir Phillip Crisp writes a parody of the Brentwood Twins return.  Determine to instill the fear of Brentwood into the poet, Iverson stomps over to Chez Crisp and force the man to stop writing about his family. 

Catalina Crisp has been holding her little family together by a hair.  Her father, while a renown poet, has no head for business or managing money.  That leaves Catalina to scrimp, save and beg to ensure they can stay in their home in the lifestyle her father wishes to live.  It also means that when her father can’t be bothered to finish a scheduled piece of work, she must finish it for him.  Of course, covering for her father is what lead her to meet Iverson Brentwood.

Catalina was a woman who took care of everyone:  her father, her aunt, the staff at her home, and always put herself last.  That is until Iverson Brentwood.  When he should have intimidated her, he intrigued her.  She loved verbally sparring with him and knowing that she usually threw him off guard.  But she also knew that he made her feel, even when they were debating, that she mattered.

Iverson was a man of action and was used to things going according to his plan.  Catalina, of course, threw those plans off.  But Iverson discovered that with Catalina he found someone who didn’t care who he looked like or what he had done in the past, she simply enjoyed him for who he was.  He found himself letting go of his anger towards her father and willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to find him simply because it would make her life easier.

A cute story with likeable, witty characters that have you turning the page awaiting their next verbal assault.