Book Review: Impossible by Darcy Burke
- Kristen Lewendon
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min read
The Phoenix Club Book 5
Society’s most exclusive invitation... Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London’s most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances. Ada Treadway has been in love before, and it brought nothing but heartache. Still, she retains her cheerful optimism and is fiercely protective of the independence and respect she’s earned as bookkeeper of the Phoenix Club. When the owner enlists her help to organize his friend’s estate ledgers, she’s eager to prove her expertise and her worth. But his friend turns out to be a disagreeable, unpleasant beast, and Ada works to find the warm-hearted gentleman she’s sure lurks beneath. Maximillian Hunt, Marquess of Warfield doesn’t care if he lives to see tomorrow, and he certainly doesn’t want to recall yesterday. The arrival of the meddlesome and effusively positive woman who will put his accounts in order not only reminds him of the past he’s desperate to forget, she sparks something within him he thought dead. Tempted by a future he never imagined, he must do the impossible: convince her that he’s worth risking her heart a second time.
My Review:
A little bit Beauty and the Beast, and all grumpy versus sunshine. Max returned from war with more wounds than can be seen with the naked eye. Ada just wants to do her job, and maybe get a little bit of payback for her friend while she’s there. Will her relentless good cheer and optimism be able to discover what’s going on at Stonehill, or will the dark cloud surrounding the Viscount Warfield be enough to dim even her bright light? I loved these two and I hated that their opinions of their own past actions so negatively colored the way they saw themselves. I felt like this story was as much about Max and Ada recognizing their self worth as it was watching them learn to trust their feelings of love. Their chemistry is immediate and powerful, but their actual romance is a slower burn; a case of lust leading to love, in many ways. I also loved that we got to see a bit more resolution to the situation of the previous book that I felt wasn’t quite finished. I enjoyed seeing Max with his now extended family. I may have only just finished reading this book, but already I’m itching to dig into the next in the series.
I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through NetGalley.
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