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A review by virgo_reader
The Duke Effect by Sophie Jordan
1.0
This one started out strong but fizzled pretty quickly for me.
Constantine is a military man who has become the heir to a duke who raised him after his parents passed. When he goes back to England and realizes the duchess is ill (likely with depression) he seeks out the physician he’s corresponded with for years. Only the physician has been dead 5 years and it turns out he’s been corresponding with the man’s youngest daughter.
So I thought, yay! A past epistolary romance, perhaps? They have this big history from writing letters but he didn’t know her identity. But the letters are NEVER MENTIONED.
And then the heroine Nora goes to the duke and duchesses home to care for the duchess without being invited, and there’s a quasi-love triangle bc the duke and duchess want Con to marry Lady Elise… but
1 Lady Elise is lovely and uninterested in Con anyway
2 Con is kind of a total prig who thinks he’s too good for Nora
3 The duke sucks
4 Nora never does any medicine except make the duchess tea and tout around her Viagra potion??!
The story wrapped super quickly and it felt abrupt and short. Like a part of the relationship building was missing? This is my second from Sophie Jordan and I just think maybe she’s not for me.
Constantine is a military man who has become the heir to a duke who raised him after his parents passed. When he goes back to England and realizes the duchess is ill (likely with depression) he seeks out the physician he’s corresponded with for years. Only the physician has been dead 5 years and it turns out he’s been corresponding with the man’s youngest daughter.
So I thought, yay! A past epistolary romance, perhaps? They have this big history from writing letters but he didn’t know her identity. But the letters are NEVER MENTIONED.
And then the heroine Nora goes to the duke and duchesses home to care for the duchess without being invited, and there’s a quasi-love triangle bc the duke and duchess want Con to marry Lady Elise… but
1 Lady Elise is lovely and uninterested in Con anyway
2 Con is kind of a total prig who thinks he’s too good for Nora
3 The duke sucks
4 Nora never does any medicine except make the duchess tea and tout around her Viagra potion??!
The story wrapped super quickly and it felt abrupt and short. Like a part of the relationship building was missing? This is my second from Sophie Jordan and I just think maybe she’s not for me.