“Ahhh... this is one is definitely my kind of book! Once again, Elizabeth Hoyt delivers in this second installment of her much acclaimed Princes Trilogy. This book is better than The Serpent Prince, the third book which I mistakenly read first, although I believed that among the three, The Raven Prince is the best! Anyway, The Leopard Prince tells the story of Henry "Harry" Pye, a land steward of Woldsly Manor and Lady Georgina Maitland, daughter of an earl and the owner of the manor. Georgina has been employing Harry for months and her treatment of him is just like how she treats everyone under her employ: like a chair! As an aristocrat, she treats her staff like an inanimate object. She's not being heartless ofcourse, but that's how the way it is!
But everything changed when an accident occurred while she and Harry is riding to her manor that she realized that Harry Pye is a man. Harry is an ordinary-looking man who always wears brown from head to toe but Georgina can't deny her attraction to him that she began to think of having an affair with him. Will she give in to her desires? Can Harry, who is also attracted to her, resist the urge to bed him and claim his as his woman? Can they challenge society and risk losing their reputation? Can they?
I'm not giving away that much but I can assure you that there are plenty of very steamy scenes in this book. Harry and Georgina weren't described as handsome and beautiful but it's ok, it makes them more relatable. It's also much lighter than the two books in the trilogy but it still has a dark aspect, especially when you learned about Harry's past and his age-old feud with the evil Lord Granville of the nearby estate. Georgina and Harry are also entangled in a nasty sheep-poisoning case that is endangering the livelihood of the tenants of Lord Granville. Everyone is suspecting Harry of committing the crime due to his hatred of Lord Granville.
The funny moments in this book can be found between Georgina and her three younger brothers who came to her rescue after their youngest, Violet warned them about their eldest sister's involvement with the land steward. All of them went to Georgina one after the other and their care towards their sister is quite obvious because of that. Violet also has a dark, embarrassing secret that I find her interference with her sister's life hypocritical. There was also a brief cameo of my favorite Hoyt hero, Edward de Raaf, 5th Earl of Swartingham and his meeting with the Maitland brothers is one of the funniest scenes in the book! It's also amazing to read about Georgina inheriting a huge manor from her aunt... something rare for a woman during that period. Also, the tale of the Leopard Prince added to the allure of this amazing book.
Read The Leopard Prince. A romance novel set during the Georgian Period in England. Writer Elizabeth Hoyt gave another outstanding story that will make her readers crave for more! ”
