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Continuing My Tradition of Starting the Cannonball Year with a Romance

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

January 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke is the second book in Loretta Chase’s Difficult Dukes series. Much like A Duke in Shining Armor, we’re dropped into action already in progress, but this time much of that action is the events at the tail end of the first book in the series. I read A Duke in Shining Armor in February of 2018 and while you don’t need to revisit the first to enjoy the second, part of me wishes I had. The three-year delay […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: Difficult Dukes, faintingviolet, historical romance, historically accurate, Loretta Chase, low steam high pining, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: Difficult Dukes, faintingviolet, historical romance, historically accurate, Loretta Chase, low steam high pining, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke ·
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Another Loretta Chase novel pairing a big, strong lug and a clever, opinionated woman. Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

December 28, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

Official book description: Cassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn’t shy about voicing. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can’t marry until Cassandra does.   Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra’s reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister’s future and her family’s good name along with them.   The Duke of Ashmont’s looks make women swoon. His character […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 10 Things I Hate About You, cbr12, Difficult Dukes, historical romance, Loretta Chase, Malin, retelling, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, the taming of the shrew, Victorian

Malin's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 10 Things I Hate About You, cbr12, Difficult Dukes, historical romance, Loretta Chase, Malin, retelling, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, the taming of the shrew, Victorian ·
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