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How To Deceive A Duke (2012)

by Lecia Cornwall(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062202413 (ISBN13: 9780062202413)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Temberlay

review 1: I loved the plot of this book. I really liked the beginning and how it was all set up and then it crashed and burned.Meg is really that oblivious to what she looks like. Does no one have mirrors in these books? The major flaw though was trust. Even a marriage of convenience needs trust and Meg believes all the ridiculous things she's heard and Nick really doesn't help at all. He never explains any of the misconceptions. At the end they both realize they love each other desperately (of course...this is a romance after all), but basically only because Meg has listened to all the stories and figured out he's a good man instead of trusting in her husband and asking HIM about all of this.So while I really liked the plot, I thought that the main characters suffered from te... morerminal stupidity a lot of the time and were really quite annoying at times. Not sure I'll read this author again.
review 2: This one is filled with cliches. I'll do a basic summary and score them if they hit the cliche-o-meter.The less pretty(+1), but practical(+1) sister in an impoverished(+1), yet noble(+1), family must marry(+1) the duke when her more beautiful(+1) but silly(+1) sister runs of(+1). The man she marries is a duke(+1) and has the nickname 'Devil'(+1) and is described in the scandal sheets(+1) as a rake(+1). He is handsome(+1) yet tortured(+1) by his time as a soldier(+1) fighting Napoleon. Also, he suffers from ennui(+1). On a scorecard of historical romance cliches, surely this one would get max points. Just in this basic sketch of the set-up, we hit a whopping sixteen.I was reading along, restraining my urge to roll my eyes, waiting for the first meeting between the duke and our heroine. I wanted to see how that meeting was pulled off to see whether this one would be DNF. The test was mainly on how much trembling and sexual desire would be involved and whether any sort of communication besides innuendo would take place. The book failed the test.There was much trembling and much innuendo. There was little actual conversation, the whole focus was on the wedding night. And then the hero leaves, admonishing the heroine to rest for the tour de force of his mighty love making. Yeah, not interested in that. I suppose this one might be good if you desperately need a historical romance fix, but there is really not much here. No original characters, same ole plot, no fun spin on the traditions in the genre. So very generic. DNF at 23% less

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