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Duke Of Deception (2012)

by Stephie Smith(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1478247584 (ISBN13: 9781478247586)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

review 1: If you know the saying "Hoisted by your on petard" lol. That sums it up.Lady Lucy Barrick's family estate is all that's important to her. The only thing lost when her father died was the title. Until legal age her uncle is her guardian. He isn't going to let that happen. He decides she is to marry a not so upstanding Lord to get possession of her estate. The uncle is no good and owes gambling debts all over London. Our Lucy decides she won't take this lying down.Lucy decides to use a devilish privateer to ruin herself so she can be left alone until she can inherit her property. Unknown to her the privateer is Derek the Duke Dorrington. Spying for the crown to find out who is involved in Ton based smuggling.Lucy's dream of being ruined and being left alone is up in flames... more but still she thinks her new husband the privateer is going to go back to America when he is done because still Lucy doesn't know he is a Duke.This story has humor and sexy alpha male, bad guys and an HEA. Good regency.
review 2: this book was okay. the title should have clued me in, but there was a bit too much jealousy and misunderstandings, but then those are the usual in historical romances.i thought the characters were interesting (lucy with her desire to take care of the village, and derek with his pursuit of his father's murderer), but they also both came across as somewhat immature. they fought quite a bit and it was always due to some crazy assumption (you know what they say when you assume) and then have some crazy misunderstanding due to said assumption. while i know this is one way to keep things interesting, it would have been nice if one of them would say, "hey, let's talk about this reasonably." okay, so sometimes they would try the reasonable approach, but only after the other was already in a fit.also, the bad guy at the end was... hmm. while i suspected it would be him, i think i would've appreciated more hints here and there. but oh well.overall, an okay book. less

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