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Book Review : *
What a boring boring stretched out story....the author really needs to work on her story building and character sketching. For a romantic story there wasn't any chemistry whatsoever in the lead pair...I actually skipped over the part when they finally do get together.
This regency story starts with the heroine Lady Julia getting desperate to fulfill her long engagement with the Duke of Bedford, Edmund. She has been waiting for him to fulfill the engagement and at the age of 23 feels she is overdue for her marriage. She plans on getting his attention by kissing him and making him commit to marriage when she runs in to him. He is reluctant to kiss her but she persists and after a fiery ( didn't really seem so while reading) he tells her that he is not her duke but his twin. From there you can make out most of the story line. She is angry with him and slaps him and for some reason that makes the guy fall for her and he makes a promise to himself to get her in his life. The twin whose name is Daniel has been away from the country for last ten years ( has a shipping business in America) and has come back following a letter from his father's solicitor. He has escaped a murder attempt 10 years back when he was in England ( hence moved to America) and also wants to figure out the person behind that attempt.
As typical stories go the real duke Edmund turns out to be a nasty character, the heroine realizes his true nature, but still is unsure about accepting Daniel's proposal as she feels he is not offering true love ( don't know how she thinks that after all his confessions about she being his life and his reason for living and blah blah).
I didn't especially like the heroine's character. Its very inconsistent and frankly there was no emotional connect with both the hero and heroine.
The author could have wrapped up the story 100 pages beforehand but keeps dragging the whole thing when the entire plot is evident midway in the book. Too many extra characters are included, too many inconsistencies with the supporting characters and too boring chemistry between the lead pairs makes this a very below average read.
Considering this is just the second book of the author I hope she will work on her story writing a bit more so as to at least make the reader retain interest during the steamy scenes ( I actually skimmed the pages of those scenes in a romantic novel...can you believe that), at the end of it I was skipping more pages than actually reading them.
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