Examine A Love That Never Tires (Linley Patrick, #1) Designed By Allyson Jeleyne Presented In Ebook

Wolford, Marquess of Kyre, feels bored and empty, Looking for some excitement he travels to South Africa for big game hunting, and along the way he runs into Linley TalbotMartin, She's not like anyone he's ever met before: she wears pants, travels unchaperoned and unafraid, and has none of the delicate accomplishments expected from a woman of her class.
After a few intense days together, they part ways, Unexpectedly they meet again in London, where Linley's father is being knighted and Linley is making her debut, Patrick squires her around town to all the right parties, He even helps her secure funding for her father's next archaeological expedition, this time to India to look for lost Buddhist scrolls, And, it turns out, he's not willing to give her up, and insists on accompanying the expedition to India, Their travels turn out to be wildly dangerous, and after Linley grows dangerously ill, Patrick decides he must marry her, despite his need for the money that marrying a wealthy heiress instead would bring in.
The book ends a year later, after they've been married and WWI has begun,

Apparently this is part of a series, and their travels continue after this book ends, I don't care. This book started strong, with Linley evincing competence and strength of mind and character, and Patrick being fascinated and admiring, but also a little wary of her oddities.
In London, we meet the only other female character, a grasping manipulative harpy who chases after Patrick and tries to ruin Linley, Not a fan. There are also some weird prejudices that sneak in: Patrick and Linely run into suffragettes repeatedly, and every time they make a point to talk about how awful and violent their actions are, and how unnecessary their cause is.
Patrick and Linely have a whole conversation about how unfair it is that Patrick couldn't inherit all his father's wealth due to taxes, It's historically plausible for the characters to have these views, but also odd that the author chose to lean on these particular opinions,

Once they got to India, this book went solidly south for me, The landscape of India is given a bit of attention, as are the physical details of traveling and camping, but the actual people of India get only a couple sentences in the entire book and get no names or personalities, even though some of them travel with the expedition for weeks not sure of the timeline, but definitely a while.
Sir TalbotMartin is supposedly a great archaeologist, but he doesn't act like one: he gives up on a ruin within minutes of finding it, and then heads vaguely toward mountains in hope that there's a monastery in them.
He doesn't bother to ask anyone who lives in the area, doesn't have a guide or anyone who speaks any of the languages of the area, and himself has no knowledge of the area or where to find anything.
Then when they stumble upon a monastery, starving and about to die, the monks kindly take them in and ask for nothing in return, not even labor.
In return, he secretly tries to steal their scrolls, It's in line with archaeology of the period, but I expected the narrative to be less blase and maybe a little condemnatory of it, Even worse, Linley transforms from the bold, competent character of the first few chapters into someone who continually has to be held, comforted, and saved.


Meanwhile, Patrick and Linley are having a torrid affair, all the while tearing themselves up because they can't be married, Why can't they be married, you might ask, They're both of age, of the same class, and could live comfortably on the income Patrick's tenants bring in, But Linley is convinced she can't marry because then she'll have to give up on traveling even though Patrick seems happy to travel with her.
And Patrick is sure that he needs to marry money, saying, "'I am desperate for money, The only way I can get it is if I whore myself out to an heiress, '" Someone needs to sit Patrick down and explain to him that he travels luxuriously every year, has multiple houses, a RollsRoyce, entire chests of real jewels, servants, bespoke clothing replenished every Spring.
. . and that none of these things are necessary, He doesn't ever even really seem to come to that conclusion, though, Just, at the end of the novel he's like "oh

I love you a lot, let's get married" and then they do.
After hundreds of pages of these two twits making themselves miserable because they both wanted and didn't want to marry each other, the final coming together was too little, too late for me.
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Linley TalbotMartin is a girl who likes to get her hands dirty, As the daughter of a famous archaeologist, shes been everywhere and seen everythingexcept London, When the TalbotMartin team travels there for her fathers investiture, Linley finally gets her wish, But when the time comes to trade her jodhpurs and work boots for silk gowns and kid gloves, she may be in over her head.


Even though she can outride, outshoot, and outsmart any girl in London society, Linley is destined to be the failure of the season.
No one she meets cares about ancient pottery or lost Buddhist texts, and fundraising efforts for future expeditions keep coming up short, If the TalbotMartin team doesnt find money soon, they will be out of a job, and Linley will lose everything she holds dear,

Patrick Wolford, Marquess of Kyre pronounced 'Keer', is a man who knows his place, Wellconnected and respected, he is everything everyone expects him to be, but beneath his façade, he is as neglected and crumbling as the family estate.
Now the strain of keeping up appearances is taking its toll, The smart thing would be to marry the heiress nipping at his heels and be done with it, but when he meets Linley TalbotMartin, who dares to shake up his seemingly proper world, he must choose between the life hes always known and one he never dared to dream of.
So this book was ok for me overall, it wasn't bad it wasn't great, There were some funny parts that made me laugh, and there were some sweet moments too, This was another free book I found on the Bookbub, com website and I will say that I am glad I didn't pay for it solely because it was just "ok", There were moments and behaviors that seemed incongruous with the characters mostly Linley, from one moment to the next that made them seem inconsistent and unbelievable.
That worked on my reading nerves, There was also a different outcome I was hoping for from this book just because, as sad as it would have been, it would have been a great spin on the originality of the storyline.
Anyone who has read this before probably knows what situation I am talking about, I think a lot of the reasoning behind my rating is due to the ending I wanted it to end differently and it didn't, Do I think it was worth the read Maybe/maybe not, this book will NOT resonant with me like others have so that tells me a lot.
Trigger warnings: serious illness, slut shaming, death of a sibling in the past, graphic description of wounds,

Their love may never tire, but I certainly did,

I think a big part of my problem with this is that it was described as "Downton Abbey meets The Mummy" when it was in fact neither of those things.
The two leads were utterly lacking in chemistry, The writing was aggressively mediocre, The extreme hatred of suffragettes was, . . baffling, to say the least, I rolled my eyes on every second page, The sex was weirdly violent and not at all okay, The ending was beyond ridiculous,

And the constant references to how much time Linley had spent at Machu Picchu made me roll my eyes repeatedly because a archaeologists are experts in ONE civilisation, not all of them, and b it had only been discovered two years before this is supposed to be set so, uh, NO.
Also, the moment where they locate a temple in the jungle and then immediately decide to, . walk to the Himalayas . . was beyond baffling.

Basically This was terrible and I hated it and I definitely won't be continuing the series, Not even the fact that it was free helped it to not suck, I have read this book, but I don't remember how long ago, I think a few years ago, What is more important, I remember that I enjoyed that a novel took place in an interesting places this was why I had hopes that it would be worth reading.
But I fear that it wasn't very much accurate with a historical reality probability of a human behaviour, manners and so on, Nonetheless, if I recall it correctly, a romance had a few nice points,

It is for free now on Amazon, As for free you can give it a try, Perhaps you will like it more than me, Very good.

I visualize the the characters from the English Patient while reading, Finley an archeologists daughter and Patrick an English Lord are exact opposites but was drawn to each other, Their adventure is riveting. I am looking forward to their next adventure, .