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The Heiress Gets a Duke by Harper St. George

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ellawatwat's review

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adventurous challenging reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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mari_books's review

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emotional lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Great lighthearted gilded age romance read. Very fast read and mildly spicy! Don’t expect too much from the plot, it’s fairly formulaic and familiar. But, main character August has a strong and determined personality who is witty and opinionated. Only docking points bc I found some of the extended family members annoying. I enjoyed this and would read more from the author.

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beccaand's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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

3.75

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jennaem27's review against another edition

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sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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jessgreads's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐✨⬜

Title: The Heiress Gets a Duke

Author: Harper St. James

Genre: Romance / Historical Fiction

Setting: London, England

Month Read: April 2022

Book Type: Hardcover

Publication: December 2020

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 316

*Book of the Month Pick

TRIGGER WARNING-

Alcohol / Sexual Themes / Violence / Grief

"When you love someone, I don’t think the passing years mean very much. Yesterday, or several years, the pain of their loss is still there."

No Spoiler Summary:

The Heiress Gets a Duke is a historical fiction romance novel about August Crenshaw, a new-money Gilded Age Heiress, and Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild. August is anti-marriage (at least for now), and Evan needs to get married to someone with money to save the estate his father left to ruin. When parents get involved, and marriages get arranged, will Evan and August be able to forge their own paths? Will that path include them falling in love?

Review:

I'm very much into historical romances (check my obsession with The League of Extraordinary Women series) and this series has been sitting on my BotM tbr for quite a while. I finally had a box that wasn't filled, and decided I wanted a romance to read in-between some larger books, and now I am sufficiently HOOKED.

First, I love love love love love feminist historical romances. August is feminist to the core, and I love that Evan loves that about her. It made a very refreshing enemies to lovers plot, and I enjoy that at no time does he try to dim her light, and even supports her working in a time where rich women definitely did not work.

Secondly, the side characters are fantastic, and I can't wait to see them again. You get just enough of Augusts' sister, and who I assume is her future betrothed- and it really leaves you wanting more. I'm hoping to visit them in a future book later this year so keep an eye out for that. :)

Third, the 'villains' (?) were perfect. The right amount of just kind of awful humans, and also you sort of see where they're coming from. I enjoy an enemies to lovers plot where everyone seems to know the couple is destined for each other, but the actual couple has no idea. Also, the backdrop of the Gilded Age behind them was fantastic, because I just binged that on HBO Max real hard.

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"The choice is yours. God knows I want you, but if you do not want me, I promise I will do my best to leave you alone for the rest of the crossing. "

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kim03's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Disclaimer: objectively speaking, the book is good, the writing and characters and all that, but I'm just mad right now so here goes.
First off. Where was the misterious marriage of convenience they mentioned in the blurb???

During the first halt I was like "it'll probably happen in the second half", and throughout the second half I was loosing all hope in the universe and author. Why would you market something as marriage of convenience WITHOUT A MARRIAGE?!

Anywho second thing was the audacity of the male lead in the last (or second to last) chapter, kissing another woman (spoiler) and then saying iT iS nOt WhAt It LoOkEd LiKe. Man, shut up. Was ready to dump his ass into the sea / ocean. And then within 10 pages everything was fine cause he groveled for 3 sentences but HE MEANT IT so it's fine and ... the end. Bah.

Third, what is it with this book and the suspicious absence of ... slaves? Indigenous people? Indians?! Just. Non-white people in general. How can u just conveniently leave all of them out when talking about colonies and shit?
Lastly (finally), a good thing: the book did try to smash patriarchy and toxic masculinity. But because of all of the above, i was unable to savour it.
Well then.

My mood songs:
»Wildest dreams« by Taylor Swift (slowed)
»Baggage claim« by Somaya

Trigger warnings:
A little death (family), sexism

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bedtimesandbooks's review

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Meh. There is no true plot in this book and the characters are SO BLAND.

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bright_eyed_and_bookish's review

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inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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