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A review by tawnyad2004
The Duke's Shotgun Wedding by Stacy Reid
2.0
DNF 70%
I’ve read 2 other books by this author and loved them so I was rather disappointed by this book. I mean it’s only 116 pages and I didn’t even finish it. I just didn’t like the main characters. AT ALL. So the the heroine, Jocelyn goes to the duke to force his brother to marry her. She tells him he’s compromised her and promised marriage. From what I gather they shared a few chaste kisses but were more friends then anything and marriage was never actually promised (I think that’s what happened it was a little vague at this point). What a conniving, selfish woman. I mean I get that she’s doing it for her family but essentially she’s planning to trap a “friend” into marriage to save her and her families butts. When in all accounts from her father and the duke she is a stunningly beautiful woman. Surely she could get a marriage without deceit. So I didn’t like her or sympathies with her at all.
Then there’s the duke. Wow. He is a cold hearted, aggressive, uncaring man of the ton. I mean seriously. They’ve known each other for a day. He knows she’s never really kissed anyone and he is so rough and uncaring about it being her first time having sex. I mean I’m reading this and thinking it I wasn’t reading from her perspective and she didn’t come right out and say she enjoyed it, it felt and read an awful lot like rape.
I’ve read 2 other books by this author and loved them so I was rather disappointed by this book. I mean it’s only 116 pages and I didn’t even finish it. I just didn’t like the main characters. AT ALL. So the the heroine, Jocelyn goes to the duke to force his brother to marry her. She tells him he’s compromised her and promised marriage. From what I gather they shared a few chaste kisses but were more friends then anything and marriage was never actually promised (I think that’s what happened it was a little vague at this point). What a conniving, selfish woman. I mean I get that she’s doing it for her family but essentially she’s planning to trap a “friend” into marriage to save her and her families butts. When in all accounts from her father and the duke she is a stunningly beautiful woman. Surely she could get a marriage without deceit. So I didn’t like her or sympathies with her at all.
Then there’s the duke. Wow. He is a cold hearted, aggressive, uncaring man of the ton. I mean seriously. They’ve known each other for a day. He knows she’s never really kissed anyone and he is so rough and uncaring about it being her first time having sex. I mean I’m reading this and thinking it I wasn’t reading from her perspective and she didn’t come right out and say she enjoyed it, it felt and read an awful lot like rape.