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Daring and the Duke
by Sarah MacLean
TAKE ALL OF THE STARS. JUST TAKE THEM.
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I had hoped a few days removed from the sheer joyful experience of reading this book would have given me enough time to come up with some actual words for a review. I shall do my best but the reality is that Sarah MacLean has written her best book to date, a grovel novel that is now the gold standard for that trope and there are no words to pay proper homage to how great this book is.
I knew I'd love Grace. I knew the second she stepped onto the page in the very first book that I would adore her. Sarah MacLean's brand of historical heroines is EXACTLY my personal aesthetic. They're smart and savvy, clever and canny, bold and brave, strong and sexy, fierce and a force to be reckoned with. And Grace, with her boots and trousers and corsets and long coats is the ultimate heroine that I think all of Sarah's earlier heroines have been leading to. They are all fantastic in their own way, each one strong and wonderful but Grace is...a wonder.
And then Ewan. If I harbored any doubts about this book, they all lay in Ewan being the hero. How, I had stupidly questioned. could even a brilliant author such as Sarah, possibly redeem a character like Ewan? Readers, I stand humbled and corrected, for he has not only been redeemed but maybe has become my favorite of Sarah MacLean's heroes. Yes, I said it. I love him. He needed to grovel a LOT for his sins, and that he did.
Very rarely do things that are greatly anticipated actually live up to their hype. I can honestly say this book didn't live up to the hype, it far, FAR exceeded it. Take all the stars made of gold threads, Sarah, you have more than earned it.
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I had hoped a few days removed from the sheer joyful experience of reading this book would have given me enough time to come up with some actual words for a review. I shall do my best but the reality is that Sarah MacLean has written her best book to date, a grovel novel that is now the gold standard for that trope and there are no words to pay proper homage to how great this book is.
I knew I'd love Grace. I knew the second she stepped onto the page in the very first book that I would adore her. Sarah MacLean's brand of historical heroines is EXACTLY my personal aesthetic. They're smart and savvy, clever and canny, bold and brave, strong and sexy, fierce and a force to be reckoned with. And Grace, with her boots and trousers and corsets and long coats is the ultimate heroine that I think all of Sarah's earlier heroines have been leading to. They are all fantastic in their own way, each one strong and wonderful but Grace is...a wonder.
And then Ewan. If I harbored any doubts about this book, they all lay in Ewan being the hero. How, I had stupidly questioned. could even a brilliant author such as Sarah, possibly redeem a character like Ewan? Readers, I stand humbled and corrected, for he has not only been redeemed but maybe has become my favorite of Sarah MacLean's heroes. Yes, I said it. I love him. He needed to grovel a LOT for his sins, and that he did.
Very rarely do things that are greatly anticipated actually live up to their hype. I can honestly say this book didn't live up to the hype, it far, FAR exceeded it. Take all the stars made of gold threads, Sarah, you have more than earned it.