Lady Claire Is All That

Keeping Up with the Cavendishes

By: Maya Rodale

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

In the third installment of Maya Rodale's captivating, witty series, a marquess finds his fair lady - but must figure out how to keep her.

Her brains...

Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. As attractive as Fox is, he's of no use to Claire...or is he?

Plus his brawn...

Fox's male pride has been bruised ever since his fiancée jilted him. One way to recover: win a bet that he can transform Lady Claire, society's roughest diamond, into its most prized jewel. But Claire has other ideas - shockingly steamy ones.

Equals a study in seduction.

By Claire's calculations Fox is the perfect man to satisfy her sensual curiosity. In Fox's estimation Claire is the perfect woman to prove his mastery of the ton. But the one thing neither of them counted on is love.

©2017 Maya Rodale (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

This might be my favorite of the series so far.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved Claire she was so funny with her math. And Fox was too funny with his thoughts during some of the math lectures. They made a great couple. They had some great chemistry and some great witty banter.

The story line and plot was great. I loved it. Trying to make her a Jewel of the Ton and her filling her dance card with Lords all named after math equations. Too funny.

I am a big Maya Rodale fan, she writes fun enjoyable books with great characters.

As for the narration it was great I really like Saskia Maarleveld. She does a great job on the men's voices. She has a great reading voice and reads with emotion. Everyone has their own voice and you always knows who is speaking. Great job!

I love Fox and Claire! Opposites attract

This is a very different story than most regency romance. Claire is a very good sister and a math nerd. Fox is a jock. His internal monologues crack me up! Low angst! Little mystery! Runs concurrently with the other Cavendish books.

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OMG give me strength! Geeze can this woman blather on. One sentence of dialogue and moving the story forward and PARAGRAPHS of repetitive inner thoughts...descriptions...and just the same stuff we just read.

This is just a poorly done Pygmalion story that just continues to go over and over the same ground. It has some cute moments but these are WAY TOO little and WAY TOO far apart. We got that Claire thinks she is way too smart for Fox in the first couple of chapters...but the author just keeps going over it and over it. BOOOORRRIIINNNGGG.

Hard to get past the bet trope

“His muscles developed at the expense of his brain.”
This series seems dedicated to poaching from known works. Book 1 promised Pride & Prejudice meets Bridget Jones’ Diary. Here in book 3, it’s Pygmalion meets She’s All That. In the 90s movie, the jock woos the nerdy, glasses wearing girl over a bet. The bet trope hasn’t aged well, particularly since Fox is a grown man and not some stupid teenager. Throughout the book, Fox is shallow, prideful and dismissive of the worth of women, particularly Claire. I had to work hard to find anything to like about Fox.

“Lady Claire kissed like she talked about numbers: passionately, with her whole body.”
I liked that Claire had brains, but I’m tired of the idea that all smart girls are socially inept, can’t dress well, and must wear glasses. I dreaded the inevitable scene where she takes her glasses off and he sees how beautiful she is. Good grief.

“Meetings of People Who Are Immune To Death By Numbers”
I did enjoy the fish out of water comedy of Fox joining Claire in academic circles. I also found it clever that all three books in this series run concurrently, running through the same events from the sisters’s three different POVs. Ultimately, the tired cliches and meager naughty bits outweighed the fun and the humor. It was worth the sale listen. However, for frothy and frisky regency, I’d recommend instead Tessa Dare’s two books on sale this month in Audible (Say Yes To The Dress and When A Scot Ties The Knot). Or, consider Stacy Reid’s four book Wedded by Scandal collection for more classic regency bodice ripping.