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The Duke's Captive (2010)

by Adele Ashworth(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061474843 (ISBN13: 9780061474842)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Winter Garden

review 1: If romance novels are anything to go by, there must be more Dukes in England than there are mice. Five years ago, our hero-the-Duke was kidnapped by evil sister duo, drugged and starved and chained in a dungeon for 5 weeks. Why? It's a romance novel, go with it. Now he's out gunning for revenge for the surviving third sister - who was neither a kidnapper nor a jailer but whom he blames for not letting him out and who he kinda thinks raped him. But he is not just revenge-motivated - he is also super-obsessed with her. This sister is now a widow with a small boy, is a painter, and has a secret or dozen. People seem to either love this book for being 'intense' or loathe it due to stuff heroine does to hero or hero does to heroine. I am oddly in the middle - I didn't care enou... moregh about either of them to find anything intense, and also not enough to get mad about things. Though realistically - while there is some serious questions about consent in what he does with her, there is no question at all that what she did with him was not consensual in any way - ummmm, if a dude is drugged out of his mind, enough to not remember anything or know what his name is, or even if he has a name, having sex with him is not romantic or even legal under modern laws, no matter if he is asking you for it and no matter the genders involved. Hero thinking it OK once he figures it out years later notwithstanding. This said, this is not the book to read for morality or even realism. If you like BDSM-lite fantasies involving period-dressed effed up people though - go for it.
review 2: I enjoyed the first part, but their bickering got to me.He wouldn't listen to her...I mean, come on, give the woman a chance to explain what happened and how she felt. Nope, he was too pig headed and stubborn and out for revenge.I hate books where they don't talk and constantly bicker, then kiss and bicker and kiss.I had to really skip and speed read through the rest. I couldn't get into their constant chatter back and forth. Lies, secrets, not talking, not listening and stubborn-closed minds. Didn't make for the best story for me.I did feel for Viola though. She could have happily loved Ian and been with him if he didn't have such a stubborn streak. She did what she had to and I sympathize with her. They did waste a lot of years, when they could have been together. less

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