His Perfect Bride by Jody Hedlund: Book Review

Details

• Genre: Historical fiction
• Series: Bride Ships: New Voyages (Book #3)
• Length: 284 pages (Kindle edition)
• Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Tropes

• Second chance at love
• Beauty and the beast
• Class difference
• Opposites attract
• Fake relationship
• Forced proximity

My Rating

Book Description

“Sage Rhodes is eager to escape Manchester, England, and leave behind the pain of a broken engagement. When she’s offered the job as a lady’s maid to Augusta Lennox, who is traveling to Vancouver Island to visit her brother, Sage happily accepts the position.

Not so long ago, brilliant engineer Jackson Lennox faced a terrible tragedy during the building of a suspension bridge in the Fraser River Valley and becomes a recluse in his fine home in Victoria. When his sister and her beautiful lady’s maid arrive on his doorstep, he’s reluctant to welcome the visitors.

Organized and efficient, Sage starts to bring order not only to Jackson’s home but also to his life. Even though at first they clash, the attraction between the beauty and the beast is undeniable. Still, they do their best to ignore it. But when Augusta goes missing and they’re thrust into a dangerous adventure together, circumstances require them to pretend they’re married.

Will the charade — and their forced proximity — change their hearts…or ruin them both forever?”

— from Goodreads

My Review

A new start.  And a new love?

Sage’s love of organizing and perfectionist tendencies were so relatable for me 😅

Although I could understand her irritation with Jackson, I’m glad Sage acknowledged she could have been more patient. 

I loved how they appreciated the things about each other that others tended to gloss over (mainly Sage’s organization skills and Jackson’s engineering work).

Augusta’s plan was honestly kind of crazy. She really should have been a bit more apologetic about worrying them like that.  Although, Jackson and Sage weren’t always as focused on her whereabouts as they probably should have been. (Personally, if I thought my sister/friend had been kidnapped, I wouldn’t be thinking about my love life quite so much 🤷🏻‍♀️).

Favorite Moments

🌉 organizing Jackson’s study
🌉 haircut and shave
🌉 visiting Salt Spring Island
🌉 in the barn
🌉 staying at The Golden Acre
🌉 rescuing Sage

Favorite Quotes

“He’d been able to view her for who she really was all along.  He’d even gotten a glimpse of her not-so-perfect side, and he wasn’t mad at her. But he’d been hidden and was now just beginning to show who he really was. In some ways it felt as if they were meeting for the first time — at least from her perspective.“

Jody Hedlund

“‘[My father] only sees all my mistakes.’

‘Then you must take after him.’ Her whisper was soft but firm.
‘Because you see only your mistakes too….With so many excellent ideas and projects that you can give to the world, you’re focused on the one that you’ve gotten wrong instead of all the ones you could do right.’“

Jody Hedlund

“‘If God gives the gift, then we can’t give it back. All we can do is prove ourselves worthy of it.’“

Jody Hedlund

“‘You’re the only woman I’ll ever want or need.’

Her beautiful eyes rounded hopefully. ‘Are you sure?’…

‘Are you sure about me? You know about my tendency to make messes—’ …

‘That’s why we fit so well together, because I love to organize your messes.’“

Jody Hedlund

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