The Gentleman's Gambit (A League of Extraordinary Women)
“Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A BookBub Best Romance of Winter 2024!
Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign—the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague.
Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women’s suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires firmly locked inside her head—until she climbs out of a Scottish loch after a good swim and finds herself rather exposed to her new colleague.
Elias Khoury has wheedled his way into Professor Campbell’s circle under false pretenses: he did not come to Oxford to classify ancient artefacts, he is determined to take them back to his homeland in the Middle East. Winning Catriona’s favor could be the key to his success. Unfortunately, seducing the coolly intense lady scholar quickly becomes a mission in itself and his well-laid plans are in danger of derailing...
Forced into close proximity in Oxford’s hallowed halls, two very different people have to face the fact that they might just be a perfect match. Soon, a risky new game begins that asks Catriona one more time to put her heart and wildest dreams at stake.
A BookBub Best Romance of Winter 2024!
Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign—the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague.
Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women’s suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires firmly locked inside her head—until she climbs out of a Scottish loch after a good swim and finds herself rather exposed to her new colleague.
Elias Khoury has wheedled his way into Professor Campbell’s circle under false pretenses: he did not come to Oxford to classify ancient artefacts, he is determined to take them back to his homeland in the Middle East. Winning Catriona’s favor could be the key to his success. Unfortunately, seducing the coolly intense lady scholar quickly becomes a mission in itself and his well-laid plans are in danger of derailing...
Forced into close proximity in Oxford’s hallowed halls, two very different people have to face the fact that they might just be a perfect match. Soon, a risky new game begins that asks Catriona one more time to put her heart and wildest dreams at stake.
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Community Reviews
This was a good ending to the League of Extraordinary Women series. I enjoyed the epilogue where we jump fairly far in the future to actually see women casting their votes for the first time in 1928.
This book focused on Catriona and Elias as they wrestle with their feelings for one another and the concept of artifacts of historical significance being taken to England. I would say that Catriona and Eliasâ relationship is more of a slow burn as Catriona really fights against her feelings as sheâs been burned by previous romantic feelings.
I also like that each of these books focuses on a real-life issue that affected women, children, and people of lower class at that time. The issue in this book was about English archeologists or academics in other countries taking items of historical significance under the guise of the country and its inhabitants being unable to adequately protect them. This is even an issue that is still a topic of conversation today. I will say that this issue and the subsequent, planned heist to restore artifacts took up a lot of the second half of the book and caused the romantic conflict in the third act. While everything was resolved well, it definitely felt like it took over the general plot of the book, instead of the romance.
Thankyou to netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book focused on Catriona and Elias as they wrestle with their feelings for one another and the concept of artifacts of historical significance being taken to England. I would say that Catriona and Eliasâ relationship is more of a slow burn as Catriona really fights against her feelings as sheâs been burned by previous romantic feelings.
I also like that each of these books focuses on a real-life issue that affected women, children, and people of lower class at that time. The issue in this book was about English archeologists or academics in other countries taking items of historical significance under the guise of the country and its inhabitants being unable to adequately protect them. This is even an issue that is still a topic of conversation today. I will say that this issue and the subsequent, planned heist to restore artifacts took up a lot of the second half of the book and caused the romantic conflict in the third act. While everything was resolved well, it definitely felt like it took over the general plot of the book, instead of the romance.
Thankyou to netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
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