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A review by allieeveryday
To Love a Scandalous Duke by Liana De la Rosa
3.0
A friends-to-lovers historical romance/mystery. The mystery was really fun, and got things going much faster, because in the beginning I felt like both Alethea and Declan were kind of flat as characters, though they had really great sexual tension.
There's a lot going on in this book. The titular scandal, of the Declan's father being framed for swindling business deals. The potential scandal of Alethea falling in love with him since Alethea's father was Declan's father's business partner. Figuring out who murdered Declan's brother and why. Alethea trying to prevent herself from getting married off, and trying to prevent her twin brother from losing everything by falling in love with a man her father hates. Whoo boy. Once it got going, it was pretty action-packed.
Each chapter begins with a diary entry, but you don't know whose diary it is until most of the way through the book, and it started to wear on me before it began to make sense, and I don't know that I liked that device. I didn't need snippets of the entries, at least in the format they were in.
Read for #RomanceSparksJoy.
CW: mentions of previous stillbirth and miscarriages.
There's a lot going on in this book. The titular scandal, of the Declan's father being framed for swindling business deals. The potential scandal of Alethea falling in love with him since Alethea's father was Declan's father's business partner. Figuring out who murdered Declan's brother and why. Alethea trying to prevent herself from getting married off, and trying to prevent her twin brother from losing everything by falling in love with a man her father hates. Whoo boy. Once it got going, it was pretty action-packed.
Each chapter begins with a diary entry, but you don't know whose diary it is until most of the way through the book, and it started to wear on me before it began to make sense, and I don't know that I liked that device. I didn't need snippets of the entries, at least in the format they were in.
Read for #RomanceSparksJoy.
CW: mentions of previous stillbirth and miscarriages.