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A review by lexikenz
My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid
3.0
This was my second attempt at reading this book and I’ll be honest, 3 stars feels generous 😬
I’ve read other historicals with a similar plot/trope that were done so much better in my opinion. People always, always recommend this book as being one of the absolute best scarred hero romances and I quite frankly don’t see it. I mean, yeah he’s significantly scarred. I guess they’re right about that but I just didn’t think the story was good here.
I think my issue is that it’s so damn slow and I didn’t really feel much of anything between them. Even their first meeting there was no feeling of underlying tension or any sort of initial sparks.
I wanted to love this, and sadly it fell super flat.
I’ve read other historicals with a similar plot/trope that were done so much better in my opinion. People always, always recommend this book as being one of the absolute best scarred hero romances and I quite frankly don’t see it. I mean, yeah he’s significantly scarred. I guess they’re right about that but I just didn’t think the story was good here.
I think my issue is that it’s so damn slow and I didn’t really feel much of anything between them. Even their first meeting there was no feeling of underlying tension or any sort of initial sparks.
I wanted to love this, and sadly it fell super flat.