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Earls Trip
by Jenny Holiday
Published by Kensington Books on April 23, 2024
Genres: Historical Romantic Comedy
Pages: 368
Format: Audible Audiobook, Kindle, Paperback
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Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton for a 19th century spin on The Hangover in USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday’s laugh-out-loud bromantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip – ride-or-die buddies offering one another unconditional support in everything from Lady problems to family woes.
From the author of CANADIAN BOYFRIEND, the perfect romp for fans of Evie Dunmore, India Holton, Virginia Heath, Manda Collins, and Suzanne Allain!
Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a sacred spot in their calendars. This year Archie is especially eager to get away until an urgent letter arrives from an old family friend, begging him to help prevent a ruinous scandal. Suddenly the trip has become earls-plus-girls, as Archie’s childhood pals, Clementine and Olive Morgan, are rescued en route to Gretna Green.
This…complicates matters. The fully grown Clementine, while as frank and refreshing as he remembers, is also different to the wild, windswept girl he knew. This Clem is complex and surprising—and adamantly opposed to marriage. Which, for reasons Archie dare not examine too closely, he finds increasingly vexing.
Then Clem makes him an indecent and quite delightful proposal, asking him to show her the pleasures of the marriage bed before she settles into spinsterhood. And what kind of gentleman would he be to refuse a lady?
Earl’s Trip by Jenny Holiday follows three best friends on their annual September holiday, which is interrupted by the Morgan sisters.
Will Archie and Clem get a happily ever after?
Archibald Fielding-Burton
Archibald, better known as Archie, is the Earl of Harcourt. He doesn’t always like the stuffiness that comes with his title. Hence, he loves these annual trips with his dear friends. Archie is the type of person who will protect the people he loves and do things with that person. I have to say that Archie is a great character, and I love how complex he is. In some parts, he was hilarious, and I loved every bit of it. Archie, though, is a bit dense regarding his feelings about a certain wild child.
Clementine Morgan
Clementine Morgan is Archie’s childhood friend. They both lost contact with each other. The whole reason that Clementine opposes marriage is that she doesn’t want to be made into someone that she isn’t. See, Clem is a wild child. She would rather be outdoors in the country than in Town with the society people. Clem has then figured that she will forever be an old maid because there won’t be anyone that would want that. She loves her family a lot and loves animals as well. Archie will definitely have his hands full with this one.
Simon, Effie, and Olive
Archie’s friends are Simon and Effie. Simon is an Earl in his own right, even if the way that came about is sad, while Effie is currently just a Viscount and will eventually become an Earl. Simon is about trying to do a great job at his new title, even without formal training. Effie is an artist in a way that his parents will never get, and he tries to be interested in everything that goes on with someone of his title….except it doesn’t always work out. Olive is Clementine’s younger sister, and there is more to her than even Clementine thought there was.
I loved how these five characters embraced each other on their shared holiday and have become friends.
Five Stars
I am giving Earl’s Trip by Jenny Holiday five stars and recommending it to all the historical romantic comedy readers out there. I do have a warning, though, as a couple of scenes aren’t meant for young eyes. Besides that, I loved this book, and if it weren’t for the fact that I got sick, I would have finished it sooner.
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About Jenny Holiday
Jenny Holiday was always a reader, probably because she was lucky enough to have a children’s librarian for a mom. Growing up in Minnesota, she used to read in a willow tree in the backyard, rigging up a canvas bag that could be raised and lowered with tied-together jump ropes, thus allowing hands-free climbing and the transportation of books and snacks.
She started writing in fourth grade, when her awesome hippie teacher, between sessions of Peter Paul and Mary singing and anti-nuclear power plant letter writing, gave the kids notebooks and told them to write short stories. Most of Jenny’s featured a serial killer who managed to murder everyone except her and her mom. There were also poltergeist and alien invasions. She showed early promise as a romance writer, though, because nearly every story ended with a happy ending: fictional Jenny woke up to find that the story had all been a dream, and that her best friend, father, and sister had not, in fact, been axe-murdered.
From that time on, she was always writing, often in her diary, where she liked to decorate her declarations of existential angst with nail polish teardrops. Eventually she channeled her penchant for scribbling into a more useful format and became the editor of her high school newspaper, where she wrote impassioned editorials against the school’s controversial new “no hats” policy. She even helped start an underground newspaper that lasted all of one issue. (It turned out that fighting censorship and The Man was less fun when it involved actual work and not just driving around in a van swooning over Christian Slater a la Pump Up the Volume.)
After college, Jenny moved to Toronto, Canada, for grad school. After picking up a PhD in urban geography, she became a professional writer. Her favorite and longest gig was promoting research at a major university, which allowed her to become an armchair astronomer/historian/particle physicist, depending on the day. After a decade of that, she decided to try her hand again at happy endings—minus the bloodbaths. “How hard can it be?” she thought? Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Yeah, turns out it was super hard. But after lots of rejection and an embarrassingly bad manuscript in which the hero and heroine, if one could judge by their wild and unmotivated emotional swings, clearly had personality disorders, she finally started to get the hang of it. She has published contemporary, historical, and new adult romance novels featuring both straight and gay characters and is a USA Today bestselling and RITA-nominated author.
When she’s not writing, Jenny likes to ride her bike, throw theme parties, and watch other people sing karaoke. She lives in London, Ontario.
^ I got this bio from her website
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2024 Alphabet Soup RC
- 2024 Alphabet Soup-Author Edition-RC
- 2024 Goodreads RC
- 2024 Romance Book Reading Challenge
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