BLURB
Bound
by centuries of bad blood, England’s two most powerful
families maintain a veneer of civility...until the heir to the staggering
Redmond fortune disappears, reviving rumors of an ancient curse: a Redmond and
an Eversea are destined to fall disastrously in love once per generation.
An enduring legend
Rumor
has it she broke Lyon Redmond’s heart. But while many a man has since wooed the
dazzling Olivia Eversea, none has ever won her—which is why jaws drop when she
suddenly accepts a viscount’s proposal. Now London waits with bated breath for
the wedding of a decade…and wagers on the return of an heir.
An eternal love
Link to Follow Tour: http://www.tastybooktours.com/2015/08/the-legend-of-lyon-redmond-pennyroyal.html
Goodreads Series Link: https://www.goodreads.com/series/45155-pennyroyal-green
MY REVIEW
I have been reading books by Julie Anne Long since she first
published and I have loved them all. The Pennyroyal Green series however has
captured my heart from the first book. Well more like the town of Pennyroyal
Green, you see it is first mentioned in Julie’s book Beauty and the Spy. I was
very excited when Julie created an entire world and characters that are not
only relatable but pull at our hearts and make us laugh. This is the book I
have been waiting for and dreading at the same time. I was dying to know what
happened between Lyon and Olivia but I knew it would be a goodbye as well.
Lyon
Redmond has been a name whispered in the company of Olivia Eversea
for so many years that she has come to expect it. When she decides to finally
move on with her life and marry a man that loves her, she is surprised at the
memories that assailed her mind. Memories of Lyon and how much she’d loved and
admired him. Her regrets, her what ifs, they all need answers even if she
refuses to admit it.
Lyon
Redmond has been on a mission, that must come to an end when he hears those three
frightful words: She’s getting married. With a plan set in motion and help in unlikely
places Lyon sets out one last time. He needs to know if Olivia still loves him,
his she can forgive him, and if there is still any chance for them to be
together.
This
book was beautifully written giving the faithful readers everything we have
wondered about for so long. Answers are revealed and there is even a new song
that could rival Colin’s. You truly hope that Olivia and Lyon will end up
together but when you factor in the man that she is supposed to marry… It truly
is a mystery until she says I DO. I encourage you to read this entire series if
you have not and if you have, get ready for a fantastic read! You will laugh
out loud, your heart will ach, your brain will start thinking of other books
and how Lyon might have played a part. Julie Anne tied up the story with a
beautiful bow. The only question left is in the last chapter, will there be a
spin off??
I hope
you all evjoy this book as much as I did, I give it 10 stars
He’d last
seen Pennyroyal Green in the dead of night almost five years ago. His
trajectory since then had been as swift and mindless as if he’d been shot from
a cannon. And it wasn’t just because of what
Olivia had said to him in the garden after midnight, in the pouring rain.
Though after she’d said what she’d said, for a time he’d stopped caring what
became of him.
No, that
fuse had been lit for longer than anyone knew.
No one from Sussex had seen him since.
Though one had certainly tried. He half smiled at the thought
of Violet.
And it was this that had broken the speed of his trajectory.
And he’d had his own methods for remaining, however
tangentially, informed about the lives of those he’d left behind. He’d proved
something over the past five years. He’d at first thought it was all for Olivia.
But he was no longer certain. He’d tried to purge his life of her,
relinquishing even her miniature.
Clearly it hadn’t worked.
But what no
one knew, not even his crew, was that this was his final voyage. He’d risked
this trip into London to track down the source of a little mystery that could
devastate Olivia and her family.
He now had
his answer.
He was,
strangely, not surprised by it.
But he hadn’t been prepared to make a decision about what to
do next so soon.
Oh, Liv, he thought.
Suddenly it
hurt to breathe. Fragments of memories rushed at him, each distinct as stained
glass.
Olivia
walking along the road to the Duffys’ house, then breaking into a run when she
saw him waiting beneath the elm tree, her face lighting like a star. As if even
a second away from him was wasted.
That was the
memory that always came to him in his darkest moments.
And now she
was giving herself to another man.
His fingers
curled on a surge of emotion. But he stopped just short of giving the message
the crushing it deserved.
She. If Lavay had indeed written that
word, he might have seen her, or even talked to her, or …
He couldn’t
do it.
He couldn’t
bloody do it.
And this is
what decided him.
He tucked the
message into his coat. “You can go, Ramsey,” he said. “Thank you.”
The footman
spun and nearly bolted, silver braid glinting in the sun.
Lyon turned
to face all the expectant faces of his crew.
“And we,” he
told them, “are staying in England.”
It was time
for a reckoning.
Author Info
Julie
Anne Long originally
set out to be a rock star when she grew up, and she has the guitars and the
questionable wardrobe stuffed in the back of her closet t prove it. When
playing to indifferent crowds at midnight in dank clubs lost its, ahem, charm,
she realized she could incorporate all of the best things about being in a band—namely,
drama, passion and men with unruly hair—into novels, while at the same time
indulging her love of history and research. So she made the move from guitar to
keyboard (the computer variety) and embarked on a considerably more civilized,
if not much more peaceful, career as a novelist.
Julie lives in the San Francisco Bay
Area with a fat orange cat. (Little known fact: they issue you a cat the minute
you become a romance novelist.)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/julieannelong
