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Book Review: Irresistible by Darcy Burke

  • Writer: Kristen Lewendon
    Kristen Lewendon
  • Aug 3, 2022
  • 2 min read

The Phoenix Club Book 6

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. Jessamine Goodfellow has spent six Seasons avoiding the parson’s trap, and spinsterhood is finally within her grasp. A brilliant scholar, she longs for adventure and new experiences, things her family frowns upon. Presented with the opportunity to use her puzzle-solving talent on a secret mission for the Foreign Office, Jess eagerly accepts. Even when it means posing as the wife of a scorchingly attractive Scotsman who she must also covertly investigate as a possible double agent. Lord Dougal MacNair, the new Viscount Fallin, has always completed his assignments for the Foreign Office alone. Now he’s saddled with an overly enthusiastic amateur partner. She possesses a remarkable intellect, but something about her isn’t quite right, and after two failed missions, Dougal is certain someone is working against him. Battling their secret suspicions, Dougal and Jess dive deep into their cover as a married couple, which arouses temptations they find irresistible. Danger is all around them, but it’s their hearts that may be the most imperiled.

 

My Review:

I love this series so much that I read it without checking the blurb. For that reason, this whole book caught me a bit off guard. It wasn’t anything I was expecting, and I think I love it all the more for that fact. Jess is brilliant and, like Ada before her, she’s not afraid of letting her intellect shine. Dougal is part of so many worlds yet separate from them as well. It’s one of his strengths while also being his greatest weakness. However, I think I’m in love with his whole family. I adored the lengths they’ve gone to in order to make sure that Dougal knows how loved and valued he is, and how well the families blended together. Why can’t real life be more like fiction that way? Overall, I had a lot of fun with this book, and I can’t wait to see what the author has up her sleeve for the next one.

I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley.


Other books in the series

Invitation (The Phoenix Club #0.5)
Improper (The Phoenix Club #1)
Impassioned (The Phoenix Club #2)
Intolerable (The Phoenix Club #3)
Indecent (The Phoenix Club #4)
Impossible (The Phoenix Club #5)

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