Lily For My Enemy: A Lockhart Sweet Regency Romance: 2 Paperback – Import, 17 February 2021

Politics affects so much in society, even personal relationships. The sparring between Jocelyn and Felix began at their first meeting. How could they see each other when their fathers were on opposite sides in the government? It is that tumultuous path that is so intriguing. Their own characters, their dialogs and their love and respect for their families is endearing. An interesting, heartwarming story.

This is the second book of the Lockhart series and I loved it just as much as the first! Perhaps even more actually, so this is really 5.5stars hahaI love the interactions between Felix and Jocelyn. We first meet Felix in book one and we get to learn a bit of his backstory in that one so I definitely recommend reading that book first, especially since a lot of the characters from the first one are mentioned again throughout this one.The character development throughout this series has been everything that I could wish for. The interactions are even better. I love how this is an enemy to friends story before romance even takes the stage. It gives it a truly authentic tone and still carries the uniqueness that we all desire when reading a Regency Romance. I can’t tell you how excited I am to read the next one! We get a sneak peak of it at the end of this one.This is a clean and wholesome story that I can thoroughly recommend. I received an ARC of this book from the author. This in no way influence my opinion and I was not obligated to leave a review.

I wanted to like this author, she has a way with characters that is engaging. But, fact errors, typos, modern slang, wrong title usage and implausible happenings for this era became too much for me. Miss Hunts father sits in the House of Commons and wants tax reform, claiming that Lords could not possibly understand the plight of the poor with so much wealth given them. Ha!!! The heroines father owns a home with servants in London and an estate in the country with stables and gardens, and more servants. Miss Hunt is also invited and accepted amongst the Ton, attending Ton parties. The Ton are the collective Lords of the country and their relations. The old wealthy often with bloodlines to royalty.How did Miss Hunt, daughter of lowly untitled politician get there? She wouldn’t have unless their family had enough wealth and privilege to be respected on some level. It thus makes the statements of Mr Hunt against the Lords not understanding poverty, ridiculous. Mr Hunt and his daughter have no idea what poverty is and the book does not correct that with any evidence.As you see by my comments, I’m not even talking about the romance we all hoped to read. The inconceivable story facts are so jarring the romance takes a back seat. More effort should have been plied to the couple, and their clandestine meetings, there the author writes nice dialogue and characters. Stay away from the political if you can’t make it believable.And as others have noted the author uses titles incorrectly in a manner that merely searching Wikipedia would have solved.This book just got ridiculous and for me the possibility of a lovely romance lost. The book ends with many pages dedicated to introducing Felix’s sister’s romance instead of finishing the romance the book started. I’m sorry I spent the money on this one.

This author's writing is generally good and I truly enjoyed the story, but I was drawn out of the story by some small errors. The book is otherwise a good novel.-The author seems to be fixed on constantly referring to the hero as the "heir apparent of the Marquess of Ramport". It was mentioned often. The way titles work, everyone would have known he was the heir apparent so they would not have tacked on "heir apparent" everytime.-there are a number of times when the author (or maybe spell check ha ha) seems to have used the wrong word: "peddles" in place of "petals", "tedious" in place of "tenuous", "old" in place of "hold" (typo?), "sphinx" in place of "minx" (although maybe that was intentional...minx would have been more common in the context).-Called the Prince Regent, "Prissy".....his nickname was "Prinny"-Titles were also an issue. The author appears to refer to young, unmarried women as Lady Lastname. For instance, Lady Helen Alsport was frequently called Lady Alsport. She would have been called Lady Firstname Lastname (Lady Helen Alsport) or Lady Firstname (Lady Helen). This happened with a few other young women too. Some titles are the same as the family last name, so it would be very confusing for the mother to be Lady Lastname and the daughter to go by that too. This problem does not seem to occur with the family of the Marquess of Ramport.-the author uses the following, "Lord Heath Lockhart, Marquess of Ramport", and "Lord Felix Lockhart, Earl of Sutby". The Marquess is not "Lord Heath Lockhart", he is "Lord Ramport". The Earl is not "Lord Felix Lockhart", he is "Lord Sutby". It would be more appropriate to say, ""Heath Lockhart, Marquess of Ramport" or "the Earl of Sutby, Felix Lockhart".I once again enjoyed this author's work and recommend it...just don't get stuck on the little details like I do ;)

Please this is not a simple Regency romance although it does have a happily ever after traces the journey of a couple from the opposite sides of the political spectrum with wit, compassion and understanding of political reality. I was tempted to call this review Romeo and Juliet we visit us, at and here and here are well I’m not immature adolescents and intelligent young people who grapple with the reality of the situation to find their resolution. The characters are well drawn and the writing is very good.