Look Before You Leap is book 2 in Virginia Heath’s regency romance series, Miss Prentice’s Protégées. This was my first book in the series, but like most books in this genre, although it’s part of a series it’s easily read as a standalone, as each book follows a different couple, and couples from other books make appearances as side characters.
In Look Before You Leap, we meet Charlotte “Lottie” Travers, a former pupil of Miss Prentice’s School for Young Ladies, but she is prone to getting herself into trouble, especially when it comes to her passion, horses. Lottie, has just been fired from her job as a governess because not only was she riding her employer’s horses without permission. Miss Prentice finds her a new job, but as a companion to an old lady who happens to be the aunt of Guy Harrowby, Viscount of Wennington, a man Lottie almost ran over while riding in the park.
From early on in the book I got the impression this book fell into the realm of historical romcom, and I don’t think I was wrong. There were one or two spots in the book that felt a little too modern for me, for instance one of the characters at one point says ‘my flabbers are ghasted” which just felt kind of out of place in a book of this period, but I can forgive it because the rest of the book was so entertaining.
From Lottie’s penchant for getting herself into trouble, to Guy’s mother who is determined to get him married off so that she can have grandchildren, and his interfering aunt who conspires with his mother to get Guy engaged, Look Before You Leap was just such a fun, entertaining read. It was just what I needed to help get me out of my reading slump.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Look Before You Leap will be available on June 24 2025.
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