Author: Julie Anne Long
Original Title: What I Did For A Duke
Release Year: 2011
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England, regency
Series: 5° of the Pennyroyal Green
Vote: 10/10
It's
a romance that I liked a lot because of its simplicity. The story
events take place in a short period: during the stay at Everseas'
estate, with balls, hunting, strolls and so on. It is linear, without
dramatic or unlikely turn of events; the romantic story development
between the two main characters is really exciting: I like the
relationship in which is him the one who firstly realises to be in
love or who hasn't any problems in admitted it, in other words I
prefer when the men are the one to chase and the women to be chased,
and that's probably because in these kind of romance often happens
quite the opposite.
Alexander
Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge is an almost-forty-years-old dashing
widow, engaged with the young and stunning Lady Abigail. But when he
catches her in flagrante, in unmistakable behaviours with the
charming and beautiful rake Ian Eversea, and after an icy, but also
quite ironic, debate between the duke and the two lovers followed by
not particularly masked threats, the engagement is broken.
