Author: Lorraine Heath
Original Title: When the duke was wicked
Release Year: February 2014
Literary Genre: Romance
Setting: England, Victorian age
Series: 1° of Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James
Vote: 61/2/10
Well...I've read heartbreaking stories
(and with this adjective I'm not implying stories with tragic ending,
but always romances with satisfying happy-ending, I wouldn't be able
to go through the first kind), see Again the magic or
Almost heaven which
ripped my heart out for the perfection of their love stories...this
one, When the duke was wicked,
in my opinion tries really hard to have the same impact but exceeds
in doing it. It's too sad!
Let's
clarify that we are talking about one of my favourite author.
First,
I really can't appreciate romances where one (or both) protagonist
already found and sadly lost the love of his/her life.
Here,
our hero, the Duke of Lovingdon, was before really, really, happily
married and sooo much in love, but unfortunately he lost both his
wife and their little daughter because of a illness. For pretty much
the whole romance there is this strong presence of his dead-wife
which really didn't permit me to appreciate the hero and heroine's
love story.
