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esther_litbooknook 's review for:
Daring and the Duke
by Sarah MacLean
Please, publishing gods, grant me an ARC of this book as an early birthday present! There is no possible way for me to wait until June 30th, I will combust!
ETA: 7/1/2020
The publishing gods did NOT grant my prayer for an ARC (*sniff sniff*), but I forgive them because this book was SO GOOD. I have never read a book with such a tall order before. Sarah MacLean had to rehabilitate a confirmed Bad Guy, build a heroine from the ground up, show us how all of our old faves were doing, and then somewhere along the way have the MCs fall in love? I admit, there were points during the course of this reading that I feared I would have to downgrade my rating from 5 to 4 stars because it seemed like the tasks to be accomplished were being ticked off as part of a checklist, and I was missing the *feeling* between the MCs. I was tracking and correcting previous misconceptions about their past, but I couldn’t see a future, or even pinpoint whether I wanted them to have a future. Then, around 80%, Sarah MacLean started breaking down all of my misgivings and weaving the complex parts of their story together in a completely heart-wrenching way, like the absolute expert she is. She obliterated their past and wrote a future that was too beautiful for me to even hope for at the beginning.
Anyway, stop reading this review and just read the book. Bye!
ETA: 7/1/2020
The publishing gods did NOT grant my prayer for an ARC (*sniff sniff*), but I forgive them because this book was SO GOOD. I have never read a book with such a tall order before. Sarah MacLean had to rehabilitate a confirmed Bad Guy, build a heroine from the ground up, show us how all of our old faves were doing, and then somewhere along the way have the MCs fall in love? I admit, there were points during the course of this reading that I feared I would have to downgrade my rating from 5 to 4 stars because it seemed like the tasks to be accomplished were being ticked off as part of a checklist, and I was missing the *feeling* between the MCs. I was tracking and correcting previous misconceptions about their past, but I couldn’t see a future, or even pinpoint whether I wanted them to have a future. Then, around 80%, Sarah MacLean started breaking down all of my misgivings and weaving the complex parts of their story together in a completely heart-wrenching way, like the absolute expert she is. She obliterated their past and wrote a future that was too beautiful for me to even hope for at the beginning.
Anyway, stop reading this review and just read the book. Bye!