Beatrice, the Dowager Countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man. She makes his head spin and being alone together will surely end in disaster.

That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. Also, the last second conflict seemed so easily fixable and avoidable that it was a little frustrating to read.'Adjusting to life in peacetime isn't easy for Major Duncan McCameron. Certain moments felt predictable and borderline repetitive, and I found myself occasionally struggling to get through it. I found myself not really interested in what was going on around them. I couldn’t really get into it. The characters take us from town to town, scene to scene, but nothing that happened in those scenes seemed to hook me. So with all those positive things, why only 3.5 stars? While some weren’t really for me, the other tropes I did love made up for it.

I also want to mention- there are so many great tropes in this book. You name it, Waiting for a Scot Like You has it.

Also, their dynamic was really entertaining to read (a stuffy and honorable soldier and a free-spirited, independent widow? You know you’re in for some fun). That said, the humor and levity doesn’t get in the way of the growth of our two protagonists. They both had great development over the course of the book. There are a few not-so-subtle nods, that even I, someone who isn’t the biggest 80’s movie fan, was able to understand and enjoy. There’s also a lot of great humor in this book. This entire series is 80’s movies but in a regency setting, and I feel like it’s most evident in Waiting for a Scot Like You. If you like a sweet and honorable hero with a dominant side? You’ll love this. I know a lot of people are looking for steamy reads so you’ll be happy to hear that this book is definitely on the steamier side. I feel like each book in the Union of the Rakes series has a different level of steam, and this is the hottest. Not to say it wasn’t good, it just didn’t blow me away like the first two books did. I loved the previous books in this series, and I was really excited for Waiting for a Scot Like You, but I think my expectations might have been a little too high.

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