Apparently Evin the Magnificent was going to recommend this book to me as well because she was certain I would like it and what do you know, she was right! Here we have another entry in the series better paraphrased as “Utterly Implausible Meet-Cutes.” One cannot really believe that any of the situations in these novels would actually happen. Does that really matter? …not really? The reason why this novel is my favorite is because it’s the least believable of the lot (winning by a […]

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 […]