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A review by abbythompson
Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran
5.0
Trying to avoid a Squee Spill here in this review, but it might prove difficult, so be warned.
In brief: woman on the run Olivia takes a position as temporary housekeeper for Alistair de Gray, Duke of Marwick (or Lord Marwick, or whatever the heck his title is. Too lazy to look up the correct way to cite it. Whatevs.) The mad, shut-in duke holds the key to Olivia's freedom in old letters from his unfaithful and traitorous now-dead wife. Duke has gone completely bat-poo-cray since wife's death and unearthing of her multiple betrayals on personal and political scales. Yikes.
Olivia refuses to let Dukey wallow Beast-style. He's essentially shamed and inspired by his feisty, red-headed (of course) housekeeper, and starts to get his act together.
There's some intensely hot romance. I wouldn't be surprised if Duran goes through multiple keyboards while writing, her stuff's so sexy-spicy. There's also a Big Midunderstanding (or two) that gets worked out only after a fight, a prison, and a bachelor pad on Brook Street (of course).
While a great deal of the plot was kind of crazy, the emotion from Olivia and the Duke was SO FREAKING WELL DONE that it kept me in the book and reading way past my bedtime. Duran is especially talented with her male characters. A deeply wounded but hopeful, healing hero who's trying so damn hard to get it together ... welcome to my Reader Crack.
In brief: woman on the run Olivia takes a position as temporary housekeeper for Alistair de Gray, Duke of Marwick (or Lord Marwick, or whatever the heck his title is. Too lazy to look up the correct way to cite it. Whatevs.) The mad, shut-in duke holds the key to Olivia's freedom in old letters from his unfaithful and traitorous now-dead wife. Duke has gone completely bat-poo-cray since wife's death and unearthing of her multiple betrayals on personal and political scales. Yikes.
Olivia refuses to let Dukey wallow Beast-style. He's essentially shamed and inspired by his feisty, red-headed (of course) housekeeper, and starts to get his act together.
There's some intensely hot romance. I wouldn't be surprised if Duran goes through multiple keyboards while writing, her stuff's so sexy-spicy. There's also a Big Midunderstanding (or two) that gets worked out only after a fight, a prison, and a bachelor pad on Brook Street (of course).
While a great deal of the plot was kind of crazy, the emotion from Olivia and the Duke was SO FREAKING WELL DONE that it kept me in the book and reading way past my bedtime. Duran is especially talented with her male characters. A deeply wounded but hopeful, healing hero who's trying so damn hard to get it together ... welcome to my Reader Crack.