by Meredith Duran
This was my decision for the return flight today and I was a bit disappointed. This is my second Duran book and I absolutely loved The Duke of Shadows, so I sort of had high hopes for this one. Duran has a remarkable knack for setting and place. My favorite part of this book was the setting. Quee...
3.5
Fabulous. Terrific story, lots of interesting historical details, amazing hero and heroine. Even though the heroine's brother starts out as an ass in this story, by the end he has realized his faults and is an interesting character in the last part of the book. Maybe he'll get his own romance ...
I've been accustomed to expecting a pretty good emotional wringing from Meredith Duran's work (though to be fair I've only read one of her other books, but I liked it well enough!). I expected that at some point I would need to fan myself a little, too. These are the things I want in a romance novel...
The year is 1715, and England is a divided county, with a lot of complicated political and religious unrest. Lady Eleonora is a young widow, who's put in a very difficult position when an agent of the Crown comes to search her brother's estate, where he has weapons and barrels of gunpowder buried in...
Nora's very justifiable sense of anger and betrayal at her forced marriage to Adrian never does get properly dealt with, and ends up tainting the book for me.I get the impression I am supposed to find Nora's loyalty to her brother more problematic than I actually do.
More old-school than the usual Duran romance, I enjoyed this new take on the dramatic heart break of star crossed lovers. Adrian is a dreamboat, and I'm so glad the awful circumstances of their young romance is all in the past tense. Their family conflict was wrenching enough in flashback, I don't...
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