In comparison to the last Girl Meets Duke (gag on that name) book, The Wallflower Wager (chronologically after this one, though), this book has a number more logistical loops one must jump over in order to get invested in the characters, along with a variant of a trope that I do not enjoy. And that is why this one gets three stars whereas that one got four. So to get it away with in the beginning: – the number of steps between Emma, vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, […]

Here we have a different series by Dare, as I was basically trying to skip around and find all of her best reviewed works. In these, as the name suggests, a female lead (seriously, do we need to call adult women girls) meets someone who is a “duke” either literally or not. In this case, we have a male lead named Gabriel Duke. It’s somewhat refreshing from time to time to read a book that doesn’t involve so much of a social leap as to […]