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The American Heiress
by Daisy Goodwin
I love historical fiction, so I started this book looking forward to some high society intrigue, love, hate, and betrayal. Instead, it was kinda boring. Nothing really seemed to happen. Cora is the richest girl in America and her mother wants her to have a title, so after her 18th birthday they go to London. Cora meets Ivo, a Duke. The story was told from several points of view, mostly Cora and her maid Bertha, but occasionally you'd get other characters. But never Ivo's point of view, this made him very hard to like or even care about. He takes off :on business" for most of Cora's pregnancy because his feelings are hurt over a painting. Which he totally set her up for. He offers no help in navigating her new world or social circle but has a tantrum and runs away when she makes him "look bad". Ivo claims to need her and can't live his life without her, but he's frankly all talk. It was very hard to care about what happened to these characters. His mother is terrible, her mother is heartless, and even Cora is hard to like. Then when something finally seems to happen (which you saw coming from the very beginning) the book just ends. It wasn't a bad book, it just fell flat for me.