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Duchess by Design
by Maya Rodale
Reviewed on my blog, Becky on Books, on 10/28/18.
Maya Rodale has a new series set in a new time period, y'all--and it's so good. Like in her Regency novels, there's still the odd duke or two hanging around, making life difficult for mere mortals--in this instance, specifically for seamstress/dress shop proprietor wannabe Adelaide Black. What all begins as a case of mistaken identity develops into an inconvenient attraction--for her, because she is a respectable female who needs to make a living and having a man hanging around is not exactly conducive to that and he because his dukedom is financially strapped and he's only in NYC to find a rich heiress to marry. Which Adelaide is decidedly not.
As always, Ms. Rodale paints a convincing picture for why these two can't possibly be together, even while showing that emotionally anyway, of course they should. I honestly didn't see for much of the book how they could end up together, even as I knew that she wouldn't let us down and there had to be an HEA. Fortunately Kingston was paying attention when Adelaide told him to "change the world" and he got right on that...
Well, okay. He got on it eventually. But make changes the two of them did, and it was glorious!
That Gilded Age Girls Club--it's going places...and I can't wait to see where :)
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
"A woman wears seven pounds' worth of dress and hasn't a spot to put anything! We need rational dress. Shorter skirts. Looser corsets. More pockets. Then we shall take over the world."(The struggle is still real. My most comfortable work pants HAVE NO POCKETS. None of my skirts or dresses have any. And women have not yet taken over the world. Coincidence? I THINK NOT.)
Maya Rodale has a new series set in a new time period, y'all--and it's so good. Like in her Regency novels, there's still the odd duke or two hanging around, making life difficult for mere mortals--in this instance, specifically for seamstress/dress shop proprietor wannabe Adelaide Black. What all begins as a case of mistaken identity develops into an inconvenient attraction--for her, because she is a respectable female who needs to make a living and having a man hanging around is not exactly conducive to that and he because his dukedom is financially strapped and he's only in NYC to find a rich heiress to marry. Which Adelaide is decidedly not.
As always, Ms. Rodale paints a convincing picture for why these two can't possibly be together, even while showing that emotionally anyway, of course they should. I honestly didn't see for much of the book how they could end up together, even as I knew that she wouldn't let us down and there had to be an HEA. Fortunately Kingston was paying attention when Adelaide told him to "change the world" and he got right on that...
Well, okay. He got on it eventually. But make changes the two of them did, and it was glorious!
That Gilded Age Girls Club--it's going places...and I can't wait to see where :)
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.