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joo13's review
4.0
Eulogy's Secret is the tale of Eulogy who turns up in town and loses her possessions and papers to prove who she is. She gets taken in by someone who knew her secret mother (purely because she looks like her) and the story is how she goes about proving herself. Since this is a romance, it is also how she falls in love with a man outside her station and all the smouldering looks and touches that come with that.
I'm not really one for this kind of romance, but I've tried a few recently and I think it will become a secret pleasure of mine.
I was drawn into the story and enjoyed the writing. Nothing was too over the top and ridiculous.
I'm not really one for this kind of romance, but I've tried a few recently and I think it will become a secret pleasure of mine.
I was drawn into the story and enjoyed the writing. Nothing was too over the top and ridiculous.
scribblesandknots's review
3.0
Some early grammatical problems almost deterred me from continuing with this one, but it soon had me engaged enough to keep reading. I'm glad I did! It was a quick, enjoyable read. The sexual tension was well-written, if a bit abruptly begun, and the characters were endearing enough.
All in all, I enjoyed this one, though I'm not sure it'd stand up to a second reading.
All in all, I enjoyed this one, though I'm not sure it'd stand up to a second reading.
avid_reader_53's review
5.0
Eulogy’s Secret: Huntley Trilogy #1 by Grace Elliot
This story was has a full cast of characters that stay with you long after you have closed the book. They all come alive in the pages and you are rooting for all of them.
Our heroine is Eulogy Foster; she just came to London from the country looking for her brother, her last living relative. She is the youngest living child of Lord and Lady Devlin; Lady Gabriella Delvin gave her to the attending physician when she was born to save her from her abuse husband who would look on a daughter as a weak liability. Now Lord and Lady Devlin are dead, and her foster parents are also gone, her foster mother telling her the truth just before she died, leaving Eulogy looking for someone to call family. Jack Huntley is the youngest son of three, he has made his name as a seller and buyer of fine arts, he his very logical minded and his heart is closed off from all lying women – which to him are all women. Lucien Devlin is Eulogy’s brother, and Jack’s worst enemy. He is a bully and a manipulator who is broke and trying to marry an heiress and doesn’t need a weak little sister showing up in his life right now. Tristan Ferrell is a has been artist that has spent the last twenty or so years in a bottle, taken care of faithfully by his housekeeper, Mrs. Prudence Featherstone who is as deeply devoted to her ginger cat, Gilbert.
These characters come off the page as real three dimensional people with real problems and real fears. I admit there a couple of times that Jack was being such a typical male, leaping before looking, accusing before listening, and walking away after listening to a known liar without talking to Eulogy that I truly wanted to hurt him. Eulogy handled everything with a grace and ease that fit the way she was raised and the title she was born into. This book wouldn’t let me put it down, it kept me enthralled until the end. Through the climax which rolled into the final scenes with a grace and ease of winter rolling into spring. Can a young woman model for an artist and keep her virtue? Can a man who has been humiliated in front of the ton by a woman trust his heart with another? Eulogy is a country nobody, since her brother won’t claim her, how would this hurt his ability to deal the ton and can he risk it? Find out all these answers and more as you about Eulogy’s Secret, as wonderfully penned tale of love, secrets, and lies. Ms. Elliot truly understands the Regency period in England’s history and the little rules and quirks of the people of the time. Pick this up and read it for a full color, existing ride. Five stars to the beginning of the Huntley Trilogy.
This story was has a full cast of characters that stay with you long after you have closed the book. They all come alive in the pages and you are rooting for all of them.
Our heroine is Eulogy Foster; she just came to London from the country looking for her brother, her last living relative. She is the youngest living child of Lord and Lady Devlin; Lady Gabriella Delvin gave her to the attending physician when she was born to save her from her abuse husband who would look on a daughter as a weak liability. Now Lord and Lady Devlin are dead, and her foster parents are also gone, her foster mother telling her the truth just before she died, leaving Eulogy looking for someone to call family. Jack Huntley is the youngest son of three, he has made his name as a seller and buyer of fine arts, he his very logical minded and his heart is closed off from all lying women – which to him are all women. Lucien Devlin is Eulogy’s brother, and Jack’s worst enemy. He is a bully and a manipulator who is broke and trying to marry an heiress and doesn’t need a weak little sister showing up in his life right now. Tristan Ferrell is a has been artist that has spent the last twenty or so years in a bottle, taken care of faithfully by his housekeeper, Mrs. Prudence Featherstone who is as deeply devoted to her ginger cat, Gilbert.
These characters come off the page as real three dimensional people with real problems and real fears. I admit there a couple of times that Jack was being such a typical male, leaping before looking, accusing before listening, and walking away after listening to a known liar without talking to Eulogy that I truly wanted to hurt him. Eulogy handled everything with a grace and ease that fit the way she was raised and the title she was born into. This book wouldn’t let me put it down, it kept me enthralled until the end. Through the climax which rolled into the final scenes with a grace and ease of winter rolling into spring. Can a young woman model for an artist and keep her virtue? Can a man who has been humiliated in front of the ton by a woman trust his heart with another? Eulogy is a country nobody, since her brother won’t claim her, how would this hurt his ability to deal the ton and can he risk it? Find out all these answers and more as you about Eulogy’s Secret, as wonderfully penned tale of love, secrets, and lies. Ms. Elliot truly understands the Regency period in England’s history and the little rules and quirks of the people of the time. Pick this up and read it for a full color, existing ride. Five stars to the beginning of the Huntley Trilogy.
abookishaffair's review
4.0
3.5. Eulogy's Secret takes place during a time in England that I really enjoy, the Regency. It is the first book in a trilogy called The Huntley Trilogy. You really get a good sense of place in this book. England was going through a lot of changes during this time and you can feel the energy of London pulsing throughout the story. Eulogy is a newcomer to the city of London so we get to see the city through her eyes, which is very cool. I absolutely love London and I love reading about the city throughout the years.
This book is a romance but with only one real steamy scene (for those sensitive to that sort of thing). I loved the romance in this book. It's sort of unexpected in a way. You have Eulogy, a newcomer to London, who is hiding a deep, dark secret about her family. Huntley falls for her even though he's been burned by women in the past. Eulogy and Huntley fall deeply for each other. I liked the romance because you can see how much they really love each other. There is a ton of sexual tension between Eulogy and Huntley at first. It was interesting to see how everything unfolds between them in that respect. You keep waiting for things to fall together and then they don't but not to give too much away, everything falls together.
The mystery of Eulogy's origins definitely kept me reading. Elliot does a great job of weaving in little details of the mystery so you can start to put things together. She does it in such a way that you really want to continue reading to see what happens next. As I said before, this book is the first in a trilogy and I would definitely like to hear how things continue to unfold for all of the characters in the book!
Bottom line: Eulogy's Secret was a fun, light read with a little bit of mystery and a little bit of romance.
This book is a romance but with only one real steamy scene (for those sensitive to that sort of thing). I loved the romance in this book. It's sort of unexpected in a way. You have Eulogy, a newcomer to London, who is hiding a deep, dark secret about her family. Huntley falls for her even though he's been burned by women in the past. Eulogy and Huntley fall deeply for each other. I liked the romance because you can see how much they really love each other. There is a ton of sexual tension between Eulogy and Huntley at first. It was interesting to see how everything unfolds between them in that respect. You keep waiting for things to fall together and then they don't but not to give too much away, everything falls together.
The mystery of Eulogy's origins definitely kept me reading. Elliot does a great job of weaving in little details of the mystery so you can start to put things together. She does it in such a way that you really want to continue reading to see what happens next. As I said before, this book is the first in a trilogy and I would definitely like to hear how things continue to unfold for all of the characters in the book!
Bottom line: Eulogy's Secret was a fun, light read with a little bit of mystery and a little bit of romance.
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