Review ‘Someone To Love’ by Mary Balogh

Humphrey
Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will
forever alter the lives of everyone in his family—including the daughter no one
knew he had…

Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing of the family she
came from. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and
that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has
siblings. However, they want nothing to do with her or her attempts to share
her new wealth. But the new earl’s guardian is interested in Anna…

Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby, keeps others at a distance. Yet something
prompts him to aid Anna in her transition from orphan to lady. As London
society and her newfound relatives threaten to overwhelm Anna, Avery steps in
to rescue her and finds himself vulnerable to feelings and desires he has
hidden so well and for so long.

I
just love Historical Romance novels. There is just something about those books
that makes me feel happy.  I definitely
feel like I’m traveling through time when I read a Historical Romance novel,
and the romance just always has this almost magical feel about it. And the
books I’ve read by Mary Balogh, were really good, so when the time came I
grabbed my copy of ‘ Someone To Love’ and started reading.

In
‘ Someone To Love’ we meet Anna Snow. Anna has lived in a orphanage all her
life and is now a teacher. One day Anna receives a letter that will change her
life forever. Anna Snow is really the daughter of a very rich Earl, and she is
the one who inherits all his money. In a blink of the eye Anna is one of the
richest woman and soon she has to learn everything there is to know about the ‘ton’.
Thankfully, Avery Archer, Duke of Netherby is there to help Anna out.

Just
like the other books I read by Mary Balogh, ‘Someone To Love’ is a very nice
and easy to read book. I took me a little time to get into the story, but when
I did I was definitely fascinated by this read.

The
whole Young-woman-living-in-an-orphanage part had a big cinderella feel about
it and I really enjoyed reading Anna’s story.

The
romance between Anna and Avery was something I just didn’t really ‘feel’. I
just couldn’t really feel the chemistry between those two and I kept wondering
if I somehow missed the whole falling in love bit. It was all very sudden and
unexpected. It was still a nice romance story to read, but I just didn’t really
got the feeling.

Anna
was definitely a nice character. She was a very strong woman, who didn’t really
seem to fit into her time. She was very opinionated and really just wanted to have
a family of her own.

Avery
was very mysterious, and still was this way at the end. I enjoyed reading about
him, but I still feel like I don’t know him at all. And the whole Chinese fight
stuff, just felt a little weird to me.

Overall
‘Someone To Love’ was a nice Historical Romance novel with a good story, and
some nice characters.

Mary
Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from
university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a
two-year teaching contract in 1967. She married her Canadian husband, Robert
Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. When she’s
not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She also enjoys watching
tennis and curling.

Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a
Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her
married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her
dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost
thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling ‘Slightly’
sextet and ‘Simply’ quartet. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling
Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a
finalist in the Quill Awards. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B.
Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime
Achievement Award.

For more
information about Mary Balogh please visit her website. Or visit her on Facebook.

I received this book from the Little, Brown Book Group in exchange for my honest review.