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A review by bookish_kristina
Two Scandals and a Scot by Tracy Sumner
3.0
This book took me forever to read and I skimmed from 80% to the end.
It was pretty unoriginal and the prose was too overwritten, it distracted me. I had trouble following the dialogue because of the roundabout way the author chose to write it. It was like reading historical Yoda; give me one complete, straightforward sentence, please.
Other than that this book was ok, it was a very predictable marriage of convenience, friends to lovers between a rake and a bluestocking. There was nothing new or special here, and it was really unable to hold my interest. It took me forever to read because I could pretty much predict every moment. I think some of the relationship took place in previous book so this isn’t great as a stand alone. Perhaps if I’d followed the series this would have worked better for me but as it was it was mostly just sex and miscommunication with little actual relationship development or plot, but did manage to have two third act conflicts.
I’ve read so much better historical romance than this one. I’m giving it a generous three stars because it wasn’t terrible and some who’ve not read so many of this trope might enjoy it.
Thank you to BookSirens, I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
It was pretty unoriginal and the prose was too overwritten, it distracted me. I had trouble following the dialogue because of the roundabout way the author chose to write it. It was like reading historical Yoda; give me one complete, straightforward sentence, please.
Other than that this book was ok, it was a very predictable marriage of convenience, friends to lovers between a rake and a bluestocking. There was nothing new or special here, and it was really unable to hold my interest. It took me forever to read because I could pretty much predict every moment. I think some of the relationship took place in previous book so this isn’t great as a stand alone. Perhaps if I’d followed the series this would have worked better for me but as it was it was mostly just sex and miscommunication with little actual relationship development or plot, but did manage to have two third act conflicts.
I’ve read so much better historical romance than this one. I’m giving it a generous three stars because it wasn’t terrible and some who’ve not read so many of this trope might enjoy it.
Thank you to BookSirens, I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.