The Perfect Mistress by Victoria AlexanderMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Perfect Mistress, though funny, was just okay to me. Nothing to run home and tell Mama about, TBH. I like the banter and the spark between Julia and Harrison, the ghost thing was fun, and the parts in between chapters with the words Hermione wrote were fun to read. But the one thing that irked me and got on my last nerve was the writer who kept going along with Harrison's plan to take the memoir and write a very terrible book about it.
Julia has to be one of my favorite characters of all time. Yes, she is trying to save money, and the only way she can get money is if she sells her great-grandmother's memoir called The Perfect Mistress. Everyone is giving her an offer to purchase it-Mr. Cadweller, the author Mr. Ellsworth, and Harrison. At first, Harrison devises a plan to try and get her to see reason to NOT publish it-a story of his father is in the book, and he doesn't want scandal to touch the family. Well, it didn't go well, and then Harrison came up with another scheme to get her to not publish the book, which is both very smart and also very stupid of him: be her friend and then get her to not publish the book.
Sounds fun, right?
Nah. It doesn't sound fun at all.
Because after kissing her on the terrace at a poetry reading, that's when Harrison realizes that he's in love with her, and now he's warning her about men who might take advantage of her and all of that. And each time he and Julia are in a room, they are fighting and nearly ready to kill each other. Harrison even saved her before she was kissed by Ellsworth. I was happy that they got together, but then at the end it was just them arguing until they forgave one another--which was fine, and that was it.
I did enjoy myself, it was funny at some parts, but other than that it was okay, nothing to run home and tell mama about TBH.
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