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A review by geekxgirl
The Duchess Takes a Lover by Jillian Eaton
2.0
2 Stars
New to me author. Plot was interesting so I dove in. Overall it was a decent read if not a little over dramatic. It could have been better had it not been nearly entirely focused on mending the broken relationship between the two MCs by using lust rather than actual communication. Both techniques would have been fine, but it often ended up with the hero sucking the heroines face and her being too weak to resist.
I think I liked both MCs. Its hard to say because this was a quick read and the author didn't delve too deeply into them as individuals much unless it was connected to their past with their own abusive parents. Then we just dug and dug for more trauma dumping.
Personally I wasn't a fan of the flashbacks. I wouldn't have minded them but the author simply wrote them in as a moment of reflection for one of the MCs and then suddenly we're wandering down memory lane for literally pages and then back to the present. I wasn't a fan of that style, particularly because it wasn't italicized or marked separate from the present. It felt like my own mind began to wander away after the third flashback tbh.
I DID like the premise, and I enjoyed that we jumped right into the meat of the story. I also liked that although everyone (including the heroine) believed the hero had a mistress (or had had multiple ones) since he and the heroine had become estranged (two years ago) that he admitted he hadn't bothered to get one because the drama and clinginess they bring but instead chose his own hand when he felt the urge. Which obviously was because he loved his wife but was afraid of his feelz, duh.
So, yeah. Although entertaining even with some light skimming due to the flashbacks and a little too navel-gazing going on I did enjoy this up until the last few chapters.
I did not like how the author brought about the ending and bringing the two MCs together to confess their feelings. I mean, a wild dog attack, really? And the then for the hero to develop a fever from a bite and yet the housekeeper somehow convinced the heroine to hie off to London asap to fetch a female doctor "she heard of" to help the hero?! And the heroine just does it because it makes sense (I guess) and oh but she loves him and she'll do anything to save him!!
New to me author. Plot was interesting so I dove in. Overall it was a decent read if not a little over dramatic. It could have been better had it not been nearly entirely focused on mending the broken relationship between the two MCs by using lust rather than actual communication. Both techniques would have been fine, but it often ended up with the hero sucking the heroines face and her being too weak to resist.
I think I liked both MCs. Its hard to say because this was a quick read and the author didn't delve too deeply into them as individuals much unless it was connected to their past with their own abusive parents. Then we just dug and dug for more trauma dumping.
Personally I wasn't a fan of the flashbacks. I wouldn't have minded them but the author simply wrote them in as a moment of reflection for one of the MCs and then suddenly we're wandering down memory lane for literally pages and then back to the present. I wasn't a fan of that style, particularly because it wasn't italicized or marked separate from the present. It felt like my own mind began to wander away after the third flashback tbh.
I DID like the premise, and I enjoyed that we jumped right into the meat of the story. I also liked that although everyone (including the heroine) believed the hero had a mistress (or had had multiple ones) since he and the heroine had become estranged (two years ago) that he admitted he hadn't bothered to get one because the drama and clinginess they bring but instead chose his own hand when he felt the urge. Which obviously was because he loved his wife but was afraid of his feelz, duh.
So, yeah. Although entertaining even with some light skimming due to the flashbacks and a little too navel-gazing going on I did enjoy this up until the last few chapters.
I did not like how the author brought about the ending and bringing the two MCs together to confess their feelings. I mean, a wild dog attack, really? And the then for the hero to develop a fever from a bite and yet the housekeeper somehow convinced the heroine to hie off to London asap to fetch a female doctor "she heard of" to help the hero?! And the heroine just does it because it makes sense (I guess) and oh but she loves him and she'll do anything to save him!!