Review: Earls Just Want to Have Fun by Shana Galen

Posted February 24, 2015 by Marsha in This one's a Keeper / 0 Comments

Earls Just Want to Have Fun SGTitle:  Earls Just Want To Have Fun
Series:  Covent Garden Cubs (book 1)
Author:  Shana Galen
Genre:  Historical Romance, Regency Romance
Published:  February 3, 2015
Source:  NetGalley

Story Blurb:

His heart may be the last thing she ever steals . . .

Marlowe is a pickpocket, a housebreaker—and a better actress than any professional on the stage. She runs with the Covent Garden Cubs, a gang of thieves living in the slums of London’s Seven Dials. It’s a fierce life, and Marlowe has a hard outer shell. But when she’s alone, she allows herself to think of a time before—a dimly remembered life when she was called Elizabeth.

Maxwell, Lord Dane, is intrigued when his brother, a hired investigator, ropes him into his investigation of the fiercely beautiful hellion. He teaches her to navigate the social morass of the town while his brother attempts to confirm her true identity. But Marlowe will not escape so easily. Instead, Dane is drawn into her world of danger and violence, where the student becomes the teacher and love is the greatest risk of all.

Read on for my thoughts on Earls Just Want To Have Fun.  No true spoilers, promise.

Let me admit upfront:  I have never met a Shana Galen novel that I did not love.  True statement.  And the beginning novel in her new series, Covent Garden Cubs, is certainly no exception to my steadfast opinion.

Because I strongly believe, on this particular novel,  you are not going to get the full impact of this novel from a review I’m going to be rather brief.

Marlowe is an excellent thief, she does her job well, reports back with the goods to her boss, Satin and survives the streets.  But this wasn’t always her life.  She often has dreams or half memories of a lovely lady singing her to sleep, of smiles, feeling totally loved and happy.  Elizabeth.  That name doesn’t fit her, Marlowe knows this but still it’s a whisper in her mind.

Now a much stronger whisper since that damned mark called her by that name earlier in the day — and now has tossed her into a carriage headed she knows not where but no where good for her!

Maxwell didn’t know exactly what he and his brother were up to that evening… but he certainly did not expect a smelly, rude, profanity expert of a young girl to be tossed into his carriage.  And he definitely didn’t expect the job of keeping an eye on her, cleaning her up and forcing her to stay in place until his brother could return – hopefully with her parents.

And he really didn’t expect to slowly, surely begin to fall under the spell of this beautiful woman who had no idea who she was.

I completely loved this novel.  It is a great start to another series by Shana Galen that I am sure to devour the moment they become available.  I have to give it a 5 outta 5.  It’s a charming story, it more than delivers on the action, romance and gives us a glimpse into a part of Regency London’s underside that we rarely see more than a brief mention of in most romances.

If you love Historical or Regency Romances, you cannot do much better than to pick up a novel by Shana Galen.  I believe you’ll love Earls Just Want To Have Fun.

*I received an e-ARC of Earls Just Want To Have Fun from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

Earls Just Want To Have Fun is available at Amazon in paperback and on the Kindle.