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annar25's review
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Dubious consent..... Idk it felt icky he's injured and taken pain relief thinks he's dreaming but she still sleeps with him even though he keeps saying this dream feels so real đź‘€
Dubious consent..... Idk it felt icky he's injured and taken pain relief thinks he's dreaming but she still sleeps with him even though he keeps saying this dream feels so real đź‘€
kenzee06's review
3.0
I think this book had a lot of potential, but in the end it just didn't live up to where I think it could have gone. There were too many odd plot twists that distracted from the story. And some of the writing didn't flow correctly - the dialogue, particularly some of the conclusions they jumped to, didn't make sense.
It wasn't terrible, just not great.
It wasn't terrible, just not great.
joanav's review
3.0
I've received an eARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion.
2.75*
Review in Portuguese: http://pepitamagica.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/livro-addicted-to-duke-de-bronwen-evans.html
When I saw this book’s theme, I thought it might be interesting to see how the author would deal with the addiction to opium and laudanum a few centuries ago. And I must say it was well presented, in the majority of times.
Alex Bracken was captured by a Turkish pirate and was held hostage for two years. He made him an opium addict. When Alex finally escaped, he obviously had a very hard struggle to give up opium and that continued daily. But, what Alex could get rid of was the nightmares, and so he started taking the occasional drop of laudanum to help him sleep, which could create a new addiction (even though at the time laudanum wasn’t seen as an addictive substance).
Alex escaped with Hestia’s father help, and so he owed him his life. When he came to him to ask for help to retrieve his daughter that had been captured by the same pirate that had held him hostage, Alex doesn’t hesitate and rescues her. At the time, Hestia was around 15 years old and developed a crush, seeing Alex only as her hero. Alex starts to like her, but her father doesn’t approve of their union.
A few years later, Hestia asks for Alex’s help to uncover the truth about her father’s supposed death, and both of them returned to the Greek islands where they had been held hostages to see if her father is still alive and get him back to England. During this voyage, Hestia realizes that Alex isn’t just the hero she envisioned, but also a very troubled man who is haunted by his problems every day. But that doesn’t keep her away – on the contrary. However, despite these complements, neither Hestia nor Alex were characters I particularly liked. Hestia was a bit annoying and Alex…well, I don’t know. I was being constantly reminded of the opium’s effects and after a few chapters I knew by heart what the author was going to say (again) about them. Obviously that it is a constant hard struggle, but the story could demonstrate that without it just being shown with inner dialogues.
Hestia’s father is a selfish man who doesn’t pay attention to his daughter, leaving her alone with her aunt for months and months while he goes to Greek islands. Also, he doesn’t treat Alex the best way, although he claims to see him as a son.
It was a different book from what I’m used to, but I don’t think it actually worked for me.
2.75*
Review in Portuguese: http://pepitamagica.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/livro-addicted-to-duke-de-bronwen-evans.html
When I saw this book’s theme, I thought it might be interesting to see how the author would deal with the addiction to opium and laudanum a few centuries ago. And I must say it was well presented, in the majority of times.
Alex Bracken was captured by a Turkish pirate and was held hostage for two years. He made him an opium addict. When Alex finally escaped, he obviously had a very hard struggle to give up opium and that continued daily. But, what Alex could get rid of was the nightmares, and so he started taking the occasional drop of laudanum to help him sleep, which could create a new addiction (even though at the time laudanum wasn’t seen as an addictive substance).
Alex escaped with Hestia’s father help, and so he owed him his life. When he came to him to ask for help to retrieve his daughter that had been captured by the same pirate that had held him hostage, Alex doesn’t hesitate and rescues her. At the time, Hestia was around 15 years old and developed a crush, seeing Alex only as her hero. Alex starts to like her, but her father doesn’t approve of their union.
A few years later, Hestia asks for Alex’s help to uncover the truth about her father’s supposed death, and both of them returned to the Greek islands where they had been held hostages to see if her father is still alive and get him back to England. During this voyage, Hestia realizes that Alex isn’t just the hero she envisioned, but also a very troubled man who is haunted by his problems every day. But that doesn’t keep her away – on the contrary. However, despite these complements, neither Hestia nor Alex were characters I particularly liked. Hestia was a bit annoying and Alex…well, I don’t know. I was being constantly reminded of the opium’s effects and after a few chapters I knew by heart what the author was going to say (again) about them. Obviously that it is a constant hard struggle, but the story could demonstrate that without it just being shown with inner dialogues.
Hestia’s father is a selfish man who doesn’t pay attention to his daughter, leaving her alone with her aunt for months and months while he goes to Greek islands. Also, he doesn’t treat Alex the best way, although he claims to see him as a son.
It was a different book from what I’m used to, but I don’t think it actually worked for me.
swancreates's review
1.0
This book was pure torture porn and it make me sick to the stomach. After reading this book I have to drop this author since her books as of late tend to revel in the torturous side of things as well as it being very sex heavy.
whitneywillis20's review
3.0
3 "meh" stars
This one really took some time to really get off the ground. I found the plot weak and a little tedious. Love triangles (kind of), weird plot twists and the most damn inner dialogues I've had to deal with in some time. I don't think I need pertinent background information told to me at 92% of the book. I felt like the author reminded the reader constantly why the characters felt and acted the way they did. Like bare bones to the point of annoyance. It was repetitive and more than a little annoying when I just want the actual story to get somewhere. The heroine was hard to like. Everyone was in love with her but I couldn't figure out why. She basically fell into the TSTL category. She was a weak character and some scenes were really hard to believe.
Ok, so this book wasn't for me. I felt it was entertaining, the last 50% but it could have been better.
** An ARC was provided through NetGalley for an honest review**
This one really took some time to really get off the ground. I found the plot weak and a little tedious. Love triangles (kind of), weird plot twists and the most damn inner dialogues I've had to deal with in some time. I don't think I need pertinent background information told to me at 92% of the book. I felt like the author reminded the reader constantly why the characters felt and acted the way they did. Like bare bones to the point of annoyance. It was repetitive and more than a little annoying when I just want the actual story to get somewhere. The heroine was hard to like. Everyone was in love with her but I couldn't figure out why. She basically fell into the TSTL category. She was a weak character and some scenes were really hard to believe.
Ok, so this book wasn't for me. I felt it was entertaining, the last 50% but it could have been better.
** An ARC was provided through NetGalley for an honest review**
ctorretta's review
2.0
Did not finish due to my dislike of espionage. I assumed it was a background portion of the plot but it is a much larger part of the story line.
mbarron57's review
2.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House - Loveswept for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book was offered to me and since I love Historical Romances I didn't turn it down. This was my first Bronwen Evans (amazing name for a HR writer by the way!) book and I was impressed by her writing. In some HR novels the authors tend to overuse Regency slang but I didn't really see that in this book.
Also, the plot wasn't your average "girl/guy longing for a certain guy/girl then something makes them see they love each other and all ends well" story which I appreciated. It kept the story from feeling familiar and that can't be an easy task considering how many historical romances are out there.
So why 2 stars? I could not get over the drug theme in this book. Im not easily offended and certainly not by a book with a drug addict in it but it seemed like all they did in this book was talk about drug use. I get it affected the main characters but by the end of the book the fact that he was "addicted" was brought up on every page. And if you're going to have a strong main character with this type of character flaw then they need to have more emotional growth than what I felt he had in this book to overcome his addiction.
Overall, this isn't a book I'd recommend however I will probably read another Bronwen Evans book in the future.
This book was offered to me and since I love Historical Romances I didn't turn it down. This was my first Bronwen Evans (amazing name for a HR writer by the way!) book and I was impressed by her writing. In some HR novels the authors tend to overuse Regency slang but I didn't really see that in this book.
Also, the plot wasn't your average "girl/guy longing for a certain guy/girl then something makes them see they love each other and all ends well" story which I appreciated. It kept the story from feeling familiar and that can't be an easy task considering how many historical romances are out there.
So why 2 stars? I could not get over the drug theme in this book. Im not easily offended and certainly not by a book with a drug addict in it but it seemed like all they did in this book was talk about drug use. I get it affected the main characters but by the end of the book the fact that he was "addicted" was brought up on every page. And if you're going to have a strong main character with this type of character flaw then they need to have more emotional growth than what I felt he had in this book to overcome his addiction.
Overall, this isn't a book I'd recommend however I will probably read another Bronwen Evans book in the future.