ARC Review: My Favorite Duke (The Duke Hunters Club #2) by Bianca Blythe
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Series: The Duke Hunters Club #2
Author: Bianca Blythe
Published May 31st 2020 by Amazon Digital Services
Goodreads Synopsis
Lady Juliet is happy. Very happy. After all, she’s engaged. Perhaps it is slightly odd that she rarely sees her betrothed. She also wonders why various men give her sympathetic glances when she mentions her future husband, the Duke of Sherwood. When she learns the Duke of Sherwood is spending time with another woman, there’s only one thing she can do: discover the truth herself.
Lucas, the Duke of Ainsworth, enjoys science and the calm normally found in laboraties. When he travels to the Lake District he is shocked to discover Lady Juliet in disguise. Lucas vows to help her, no matter how distracting her alluring presence is.
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I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.
My Favorite Duke follows Lady Juliet who should be one of the happiest women in England, but she's not. She's been engaged to the sought after Duke of Sherwood for over a year, and he keeps postponing their wedding. Once others start giving her pitying looks, and some even let slip that Sherwood may be spending time with other women, enough is enough. She needs to find out once and for all what is up, and plans to sneak off this his nearby estate, and have it out. While travelling to the estate, the carriage her and her cousin, Genevieve, are travelling in is beset by highwaymen, who try to take them hostage but fail. Lucas, the Duke of Ainsworth, appears to the outside world to be bookish and interested wholly in science. However, this is a ruse, as he's really helping the government to discover a counterfeiting ring in Cumbria, and he thinks the carriage travelling the roads at night may be linked. When it's revealed that Lady Juliet is inside, he's still suspicious, and organises a trip to her home to see if she's involved, and when she steals his clothing and disguises herself as a man to travel to Sherwood's estate again, he can't help but follow. Stuck together overnight, they overcome their initial differences, and band together to work out who is behind the crimes, and soon fall in love. Will Juliet be able to back out of her engagement, or is Sherwood more dangerous that they thought?
We met both main characters in book 1, All You Need Is A Duke, and I was intrigued by them, especially Juliet who wasn't that big a character last time. She's slightly annoying at first, being completely self involved, but as we learn more about her childhood - with a father who hated her mother, and was cheating on her - and why she wanted to marry so much, she grew on me. I really enjoyed seeing her growth too, and how she wasn't going to accept how her dad and stepmother treated her any longer. Lucas, with his spying background, and painful first love, just pulled at my heartstrings, and I found his chapters the best. When they were both together, their mutual growth was amazing to see, and though their romance seemed quick at times, I loved how it came to a conclusion.
Dates Read:
June 8, 2020
Rating
4 Stars
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