A Visit From Sir Nicholas by Victoria AlexanderMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Even though this book took me a little minute to complete and finish, I did enjoy this one.
Ten years ago, Elizabeth and Nicholas met at the family's library to talk as usual, but Elizabeth was there to give him a copy of A Christmas Carol. When they speak, Nicholas tells her that he's leaving for America, and Elizabeth is heartbroken, because she wants him to stay and to tell him how she feels about him. But going to America shocked her to her core, so the two argued, she gave him the book and they parted with the wrong words and things unsaid about each other, so one went to America to make money and the other one married the man she was supposed to get married, and they never spoke again...
Until....ten years later.
Elizabeth is a widow with two boys, and she's living her best life, managing her house and her money without any help, even harboring some hate for the woman her now deceased husband had his "grand passion" with, making her doubt herself and her whole marriage. When she comes to her brother's house to talk about it, she runs into Nicholas, now a knight, and her feelings are stirred up again...until she hears that her late husband put in his will that Sir Nicholas has to look over her finances...in which she was not happy about.
They argued about it until Sir Nicholas pulled her into his arms when she said that "his kisses made her toes curl" and they did kiss...and it did make her forget about her husband and focus all on Nicholas, but then some remembered something or he said something, he left and she threw a very expensive vase at the door.
It does look like throughout the book that Sir Nicholas still has feelings for Elizabeth, because each time they talk or are in a room together, the brother lays down the rizz as hard as he can and even turns into a stress ball like Jinshi when she tried to seduce him and he fell back in the chair, which was funny and oh so cute. To me, Nicholas reminds me or is a mashup of Jinshi from The Apothecary Diaries when he turns into a ball of stress and Nanami Kento when he gets all business. Elizabeth I can't quite put my finger on it, but she's fun too, and yes, they do get together and after it...
Sir Nicholas: I want to marry you.
Elizabeth, nicely: No.
Sir Nicholas: Okay, cool, so I'm gonna look over your finances and you can't do anything about it.
Elizabeth: Alright, bet, lemme go to Victorian Target and Walmart and spend a lot of money and you can't do anything about it.
Sir Nicholas: Hahahahahaha okay Elizabeth, lemme close all your accounts everywhere, see how you feel then
Elizabeth: YOU CAN'T DO THAT *grabs very expensive Ming Dynasty vase*
Sir Nicholas: Heh heh heh watch me
(I'm paraphrasing but that's what happened basically). I did like the fact that her sister Juliana was there to talk to her and see where her brain is before giving her advice, and then telling her to marry Nicholas. Elizabeth agrees and she goes over to Nicholas's house and tells him that she'll marry him, not even knowing that he was planning on making her change her mind by inviting her children over to play Pirates, she was so mad at him that at the family Christmas tea, nearly every woman gave her advice about what to do with Nicholas, even after she gave him some kind of ultimatum to come by around five.
Sir Nicholas does, and thanks to a friend, he goes to Fortum and Mason and gets everything the ladies need for their tea to be a smashing hit, and then at the Christmas party, they get together. After Elizabeth's brother Jonathan lied about Nicholas getting on a train to America.
This book did crack me up and it does slow down sometimes but I enjoyed this book.
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