A review by killerwhaletank
Daring the Duke by Charlie Lane

1.0

I’ve read books that I thought suffered from silly plots, mediocre writing, and less-than-stellar characters… but this book had all three.

It was the most inconsistent, pointless book I’ve ever read. This book actually made NO SENSE. Not one part of it. Things happened on one page that suddenly didn’t matter two pages later. Other big dramatic things came out of nowhere and then were never referenced again.

The writing was also not very good. I felt like the author had a thesaurus open next to her and was trying to come up with every imaginable word whether it made sense or not. The dialogue between characters is painful in its awkwardness.

I only finished this book because I promised myself I’d read it all, and now I never have to read another thing in this series or by this author every again.

Here’s an example of the prose you can expect in this book. If this is your thing… have at ‘er. There’s a lot more of this to look forward to in this book:

“His warm hands on her shoulders, steadying her, were like two hot coals. No. They were more like foot warmers, for coals promised pain whereas foot warmers provided only pleasure. Ridiculous thought! Her brain was dissolving into gruel. And now that gruel could not extricate itself from the idea that his hands were similar to a device used to warm one’s feet in bed because it put him in proximity to the idea of bed.”

This gif sums up how I feel about this book: