I loved Seth and Mina's story! Can you imagine traveling half way around the world to meet that man you will be marrying, only to find that you don't suit? Lucky for Mina, she meets Seth. In the pursuit of finding Seth's sister, they are led on a merry chase. This was a great addition to the London Explorers series!

I really, really, really wanted to like this book. I just found that it was too difficult to get into Lord's pace. I tried another of her books to see if it was just this one that held me at arm's length; but unfortunately did not have better luck.

She does create some zip and spark and the historical aspect is a well crafted one; but it just didn't pull me in as I would have hoped.

For a book that sounds an awful lot like a sweeping adventure, Discovery of Desire was a tad boring. Set in India, the leading gentleman, Seth, is on the hunt for his missing sister and the book's heroine, Mina, came over on a ship seeking a husband only to find someone different than she expected. With all the talk of Seth finding his sister I thought that he and Mina would somehow end up on an adventure to find her while also falling in love but instead they really didn't do much beyond talk and tease each other. 

I'm not sure how this ties in to the previous installment in the series as i haven't read it but I didn't have any issues with reading this out of order. 

First off, I really expected to see more of India. It's not your typical setting for a historical romance, especially one involving British characters as those books are more often than not set in London. I really liked the idea of stepping beyond that but was disappointed when it wasn't emphasized in any way beyond a few words here and there. 

I wasn't all that keen about Seth as a love interest. He was sweet and I liked the idea of having a leading man who was genuinely caring and not about trying to seduce the heroine. But he was ridiculously indecisive. It was this constant back and forth about feeling unworthy of marrying Mina but also wanting to hook up with her. And for all that he wanted to find his sister, he wasn't inclined to go out and search for her like he planned. Also, all the winking? And using the same compliments over and over? Kind of got old.

Mina was much more likable and not nearly as annoying but I can't say I was all for her either. I liked how loyal she was to her sister and she knew how to take the lead when no one would step up. But she kept fighting more and more for a marriage that wasn't happening and she even knew that, as well as feeding into the whole back-and-forth between her and Seth. 

I can't say the story was all that bad. I enjoyed it enough but the story advertised in the synopsis wasn't the story I read in Discovery of Desire. It took a while to pick up and ended up being a lot of the same conflicts over and over that weren't really engaging, but overall the story wasn't bad. Just... not great. I may check out the first in the series but it's not super high on my list.