A review by noum
Lady Be Good by Meredith Duran

4.0

A very melodramatic plot that felt very OTT (yes, I know this is a romance novel, still) but such enjoyable characters, with such chemistry and so many scenes fraught with the best tension, rawwwr. It's too bad the conflict provided wasn't because of internal forces but external ones, and such ridiculous ones too.

A solid read that sadly felt a bit too formulaic in its development, especially since the interesting characters could have easily done without the contrived melodrama of the plot.

I can't see how I'll be reading the next installment however, considering it'll likely feature the mafioso uncle who blackmailed his niece and happily teared down what life she'd built for herself as the hero. Now, I like antiheroes all right, but there's something too repulsive about the possessive, patronizing way he treated his niece, and the way all seemed forgiven and forgotten by the end of the novel, even though he'd done nothing to earn such things.