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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Brendan and Marlowe
Billionaire construction CEO and single Mum with a sick child whose only option of treatment cost £100k. Marlowe is left with no other option than to work for Seraph as an all access EA
Brendan who is an adult child pushes her beyond her limit and is forced to grovel to get her back.
Billionaire construction CEO and single Mum with a sick child whose only option of treatment cost £100k. Marlowe is left with no other option than to work for Seraph as an all access EA
Brendan who is an adult child pushes her beyond her limit and is forced to grovel to get her back.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I devouredddd this book. Elodie Hart never misses. This just might be my second favorite book of hers. It was so wonderful. The medical aspect was done well; just enough to make you feel for Marlowe and Tabs but not too drawn out with unnecessary dramatics. The grovellingggg! Brendan really stepped up and acknowledged his f**k ups full on. We love a man who takes responsibility and doesn’t make excuses. Marlowe also stood her ground which, yay to FMCs who know their worth.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow. I honestly am surprised and just how much I loved this one. I did not want it to end! This put me through the wringer emotionally…many tears were shed. The groveling was TOP NOTCH. I was convinced that there was nothing Brendan could do to make me like him but alas. Wow. Loved it. I took off .5 just because I wasn’t sold on Marlowe actually enjoying the role as she claims to later on and I would have liked to see more of their dynamic outside of just the sex.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
ARC Review
Duplicity is the second book in the Seraph Series by Elodie Hart.
Having read almost everything she's written, I was super excited to be chosen to receive this ARC.
She did not disappoint. I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything I read this weekend.
I'm going to give a very brief synopsis then tell you my thoughts.
Marlowe is a single mother to 8 year old Tabby. Tabby with born with a bad pulmonary valve and has already been through 2 open heart surgeries to replace said valve. She's out growing the valve she has now and she's getting weaker and weaker. Marlowe and the doctors are afraid that Tabby won't make it to the next available surgery date. A private hospital could fix Tabby right up but the costs aren't feasible. Marlowe decides the only option is to take a job with the Seraph Agency as a "full-service" EA... She goes to work for Mr Brendan Sullivan who has been obsessing over her for months.
Ok...so the audition happens and they decide to work together. Work begins and so do the fireworks.
Brendan is an entitled man-child. He likes Marlowe but treats her like an expensive toy that he can do whatever he wants with. Marlowe puts up him because she's a mama bear who's fighting for her daughter's life and she believes that deep down Brendan is a good man.
This book is so much more than a romance. This book will make you look at how you deal with the people in your life. Do you appreciate or take for granted? Are you appreciated or taken for granted. Are you interested in the lives of those who take of you? Are those you take care of interested in your life? Do you feel safe? Needed? Are you an expensive accessory? Marlowe is an expensive accessory. She's intelligent and hard working. She's a mother fighting to save her daughter. But
Brendan doesn't think about those things, often. When he starts to think about her as a person he realizes that she could be more than the way he treats her.... And that makes him think that maybe he's not the good guy he thought he was.
This book is so much more than a romance. But if you're looking for romance...it's soooo there. It's beautiful. And the spice is perfection! This book made me think and made me so angry at Brendan. I cheered for Marlowe. I worried for Tabby.
The end of the book was just what I needed it to be.
Elodie Hart has proven to me that she has a way with words and tells stories that mean something as well as are entertaining. I can't say enough about this book.
Thank you Sara Madderson/Elodie Hart for sharing this beautiful story with me as an ARC....I cannot wait for the world to see what we see in you!
Duplicity is the second book in the Seraph Series by Elodie Hart.
Having read almost everything she's written, I was super excited to be chosen to receive this ARC.
She did not disappoint. I'm still trying to wrap my head around everything I read this weekend.
I'm going to give a very brief synopsis then tell you my thoughts.
Marlowe is a single mother to 8 year old Tabby. Tabby with born with a bad pulmonary valve and has already been through 2 open heart surgeries to replace said valve. She's out growing the valve she has now and she's getting weaker and weaker. Marlowe and the doctors are afraid that Tabby won't make it to the next available surgery date. A private hospital could fix Tabby right up but the costs aren't feasible. Marlowe decides the only option is to take a job with the Seraph Agency as a "full-service" EA... She goes to work for Mr Brendan Sullivan who has been obsessing over her for months.
Ok...so the audition happens and they decide to work together. Work begins and so do the fireworks.
Brendan is an entitled man-child. He likes Marlowe but treats her like an expensive toy that he can do whatever he wants with. Marlowe puts up him because she's a mama bear who's fighting for her daughter's life and she believes that deep down Brendan is a good man.
This book is so much more than a romance. This book will make you look at how you deal with the people in your life. Do you appreciate or take for granted? Are you appreciated or taken for granted. Are you interested in the lives of those who take of you? Are those you take care of interested in your life? Do you feel safe? Needed? Are you an expensive accessory? Marlowe is an expensive accessory. She's intelligent and hard working. She's a mother fighting to save her daughter. But
Brendan doesn't think about those things, often. When he starts to think about her as a person he realizes that she could be more than the way he treats her.... And that makes him think that maybe he's not the good guy he thought he was.
This book is so much more than a romance. But if you're looking for romance...it's soooo there. It's beautiful. And the spice is perfection! This book made me think and made me so angry at Brendan. I cheered for Marlowe. I worried for Tabby.
The end of the book was just what I needed it to be.
Elodie Hart has proven to me that she has a way with words and tells stories that mean something as well as are entertaining. I can't say enough about this book.
Thank you Sara Madderson/Elodie Hart for sharing this beautiful story with me as an ARC....I cannot wait for the world to see what we see in you!
Received as an ARC.
🤍 Paid services
🤍 Reformed playboy
🤍 Grovelling and redemption
🤍 ADHD representation
🤍 Billionaire MMC x Single Mum FMC
I’m so glad that Elodie has diverted into the Seraph world. It was the perfect instalment and still kept us in the same headspace from Audacity that we know and love.
Marlowe was a beautiful FMC to witness, her unwavering love and care for her child was so heart-warming to read about. That woman is the epitome of “if she could, she would”. Whilst Brendan drove me mad at times, he was just what Marlowe needed in life. And under all that typical f-boy exterior he was the ultimate cinnamon roll or those he cares about. And that shone through in spades once he allowed everyone to see that.
If you’re looking for a book that gives you all the emotional resilience, care, a love that isn’t built just on chemistry but one of connection and vulnerability. Oh and not to mention that delicious smutty smut then Duplicity is the one for you.