How To Get Away With Scandal by Caroline Linden [ARC Review]
How to Get Away with Scandal by Caroline Linden is the fifth instalment in the Scandalous series, following Evangeline and Richard. The novel also revisits Joan and Tristan (the couple from the first book, Love and Other Scandals ), this time largely through Evangeline’s perspective. As their story was the only other one I was already familiar with, this connection felt especially rewarding. It’s rare to come across a historical romance featuring a heroine in her forties and her relationship with a younger man. It was refreshing to see the usual script reversed — to follow the chaperone rather than the young debutante during a London season. Evangeline’s story, however, began long before the events of this novel. There’s a persistent narrative in historical romance that one finds their happily ever after in their twenties and that nothing truly difficult follows. How to Get Away with Scandal tells a different — and arguably more mature — story. Evangeline was unhappily married twice...
