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siany_nejmet 's review for:
My Last Duchess
by Daisy Goodwin
I haven't really fully made my mind up about this book.
It wasn't a Mills and Boon type of book, it was more filled out than that and was over 400 pages. However if you were to ask me how it was filled out more, I am at a slight loss how to answer. To be honest, a lot of stuff probably could have been cut out of this and if wanted, could have easily have been made into a M & B...without the sex and loving hero that is.
The Duke Ivo - well he was pretty much a useless male lead. Usually the lead man in books has his faults but comes through in the end, and I suppose in his way he did. But I didn't like him and he had no redeeming features in my opinion.
Cora Cash (fab name) was actually a fairly likeable character in the end, she wasnt as spoiled and vain as expected, she really did marry him for love but couldnt understand why Ivo was the way he was with her. I felt sorry for her being lumped with him. But there were times that I was really annoyed with her and was silently yelling at her to grow a backbone and stick up for herself against everyone.
Really there were no characters that was relatable or even that likeable as a whole. Yet I found I couldn't put the book down, I had to know what was going to happen next. So in that sense it was a very good book because it had my curiousity aroused. The ending could have been better. Confrontations were building up throughout the whole book yet they kinda fizzled out at the end, which was disappointing.
I did like the author's style of writing, I just felt that the book was a bit too long, and it could have had some stuff taken out.
I suppose has a whole I did like it, but its not something I would read again. Once was enough. I am not sure I would anythng else from this author either.
7/10
It wasn't a Mills and Boon type of book, it was more filled out than that and was over 400 pages. However if you were to ask me how it was filled out more, I am at a slight loss how to answer. To be honest, a lot of stuff probably could have been cut out of this and if wanted, could have easily have been made into a M & B...without the sex and loving hero that is.
The Duke Ivo - well he was pretty much a useless male lead. Usually the lead man in books has his faults but comes through in the end, and I suppose in his way he did. But I didn't like him and he had no redeeming features in my opinion.
Cora Cash (fab name) was actually a fairly likeable character in the end, she wasnt as spoiled and vain as expected, she really did marry him for love but couldnt understand why Ivo was the way he was with her. I felt sorry for her being lumped with him. But there were times that I was really annoyed with her and was silently yelling at her to grow a backbone and stick up for herself against everyone.
Really there were no characters that was relatable or even that likeable as a whole. Yet I found I couldn't put the book down, I had to know what was going to happen next. So in that sense it was a very good book because it had my curiousity aroused. The ending could have been better. Confrontations were building up throughout the whole book yet they kinda fizzled out at the end, which was disappointing.
I did like the author's style of writing, I just felt that the book was a bit too long, and it could have had some stuff taken out.
I suppose has a whole I did like it, but its not something I would read again. Once was enough. I am not sure I would anythng else from this author either.
7/10