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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
4.5 round up to 5. I loved every aspect about this book but I felt like they fell in love too soon. They were immediately smitten and boo'd up so there wasn't any question of them staying together. I would have liked a little more angst personally. I really enjoyed the feminist parts of this that still felt very rooted in the time period.
There were parts I liked a lot, but the author couldn't seem to help herself in trying to solve all her character's problems quickly. ALL of the conflict that could propel the plot was like "here's an obstacle in the way, poof, knock it down; here's some tension between two characters, poof, gone; here's a secret, poof, revealed, nevermind, no big deal." Romance readers WANT it to all work out in the end of course, but the struggle makes it worth the payoff. There needs to be SOME friction, and the friction has to carry through the whole story between the meet cute and the HEA. This is a book that did a WHOLE lot of telling and not a lot of showing.
I liked it though - there was enough to keep me engaged to finish it and I've heard good things about the next one so I'll probably read it eventually.
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(Okay but SERIOUSLY, the telegrams at the end had me rolling my eyes. There was SO MUCH DETAIL. When you paid by the _letter_ you kept that shit SUCCINCT. It's the sort of detail in a book you either skip over or fixate on, and once you see it you can't unsee it.)
I liked it though - there was enough to keep me engaged to finish it and I've heard good things about the next one so I'll probably read it eventually.
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(Okay but SERIOUSLY, the telegrams at the end had me rolling my eyes. There was SO MUCH DETAIL. When you paid by the _letter_ you kept that shit SUCCINCT. It's the sort of detail in a book you either skip over or fixate on, and once you see it you can't unsee it.)
Not really my cup of tea. Too long, too many plot lines, and in my opinion, a bit too cringe on the dialogue.
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
Loved the story, the chemistry and no real third act fight. Easily 4 stars!
emotional
lighthearted
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:
Yes
lighthearted
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:
Yes
This is the first book in a new Historical Romance series, and I loved it so much! i have been wanting to get back into HR for a while and this was as an audiobook for review on Netgally and I leaped at the chance to listened to it. i love HR as audiobooks! And this was no exception, it was such a progressive HR to with our Main heroin having different views of women and girls and dreams of opening her own women's collage that doesn’t just focus on finding a husband. she also writes gothic romance novels under a pen name that are very progressive for her time and no one knows it’s her and her books get criticized (and loved) a lot throughout this story! Then we have Domanic our hero and Hes is my favorite kind of duke a brute of a duke that most of London is scared off and there are rumors that killed his ex-wife and he is now raising his hand full of a daughter alone. Than he meets Artemis and their sexual tension was so good! I loved that she was an older heroine and sexually confident it made the spicy parts so much better, and that one where they are up against his wall of books! So good!! It also had nursing back to health in it in the end and it was so good!! If you're looking for a good progressive HR story with a moody duke, marriage of convince, age gap, step parent relationship this is you're novel! And if you want it as an audiobook the narrator does a wonderful job!
The blurb really doesn't do this one justice. The main character Artemis works at a girls school before quitting because she wants to start her own school and write gothic romance. Love her background and the way it brings her and the love interest together. The main dude had a daughter too and I really liked how she and Artemis developed their relationship. Solid historical romance. And it's a series!!!
3.5⭐️ “For the very first time in my life, I believe that happily-ever-afters are not only found at the end of a book. They are real.”
In the interest of transparency, I will admit that my initial motives for picking up this book were to check off my U book for an A-Z Reading Challenge. What I ended up with was an entertaining tale of resurgence and second chances.
Our bluestocking heroine, Artemis is intelligent, driven and caring. She has ✨PLANS✨ and no domineering aunt or villainous ex-suitor are going to get in her way.
Dominic is as refreshing as he is charming. Artemis is pleased to find out that nothing about him is as dastardly as society would make him out to be.
You’ll want to pick up Up All Night with a Good Duke if you like mature main characters, low angst and Taming of the Shew vibes {light on the Shew and heavy on the heart}
Thank you to the author, @SourcebooksCasa & @Netgalley for a free copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review. Pub date for Up All Night With a Good Duke is June 28th, 2022.
In the interest of transparency, I will admit that my initial motives for picking up this book were to check off my U book for an A-Z Reading Challenge. What I ended up with was an entertaining tale of resurgence and second chances.
Our bluestocking heroine, Artemis is intelligent, driven and caring. She has ✨PLANS✨ and no domineering aunt or villainous ex-suitor are going to get in her way.
Dominic is as refreshing as he is charming. Artemis is pleased to find out that nothing about him is as dastardly as society would make him out to be.
You’ll want to pick up Up All Night with a Good Duke if you like mature main characters, low angst and Taming of the Shew vibes {light on the Shew and heavy on the heart}
Thank you to the author, @SourcebooksCasa & @Netgalley for a free copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review. Pub date for Up All Night With a Good Duke is June 28th, 2022.