My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh

‘My Fake Rake’ is a humorous book with a strong female lead who prioritises knowledge over getting married.

As the book is set in the early 1800’s most eligible young ladies would be searching for a man to marry however Lady Grace Wyatt is more at home at the public library than in the ballroom.

I enjoyed the reversal of roles from the play ‘Pygmalion’ by George Bernard Shaw. In ‘Pygmalion’ professor Henry Higgins takes the common flower girl Eliza and turns her into a perfect lady of society. In ‘My Fake Rake’ Lady Grace Wyatt turns the bookish and socially shy Sebastian Holloway into a dashing and charismatic rake. The reversal of roles gives power to the female character in a world where she would have little if any.

This book has interesting characters and I am looking forward to learning more about them in the rest of the series.