Mr. Malcolm’s List

Today’s post is on Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain. It is 244 pages long and is published by Jove. The cover has silhouettes of the main characters. The intended reader is someone who likes historical romance, humorous stories, and happy endings. There is very mild foul language, no sex, and no violence in this novel. The story is told from third person close of the two main characters. There Be Spoiler Ahead.

From the back of the book-The Honorable Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. He's determined to elude the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. But after years of searching, he's beginning to despair of finding this paragon. And then Selina Dalton arrives in town…

Selina, a vicar's daughter of limited means and a stranger to high society, is thrilled when her friend Julia invites her to London.  Until she learns it's part of a plot to exact revenge on Mr. Malcolm. Selina is reluctant to participate in Julia's scheme, especially after meeting the irresistible Mr. Malcolm, who seems very different from the arrogant scoundrel of Julia's description.

But when Mr. Malcolm begins judging Selina against his unattainable standards, Selina decides that she has qualifications of her own. And if he is to meet them he must reveal the real man behind...Mr. Malcolm's List. 

Review- A very fun historical romance. Selina gets pulled into getting revenge for a old classmate/friend when Mr. Malcolm refuses to court the friend. Jeremy has a very silly list that he uses to measure all women and when the women fail, and they all do, then he has a reason to stop seeing them. That is never really explained to me, why does he have the list in the first place. It is hinted that his brother’s wife is not the best choice but that is the only thing that could have driven him to make the list. Of course our heroine fulfills the list but the revenge sub-plot gets in the way. It was a fun romance. I would read another book by the author.

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.