Review: The Duke and the Lady in Red (Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James)

Author: Lorraine Heath
Original Title: The Duke and the Lady in Red
Release Year: April 2015

Literary Genre: Historical Romance
Setting: England, Victorian Era
Series: 3rd of Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James

Vote: 10+








This novel is amazingly sweet and extremely touching...I've cried so much!
Lorraine Heath, in my experience, always bests herself!
I've seen some of two her previous novels I've loved in The Duke and the Lady in Red; I'm talking about "Waking up with the Duke" and "Lord of wicked intentions"; but don't get me wrong, the plot here is quite different from the above mentioned, VERY different I would say (which, I understand, to the skepticals' ears might sound as a strange statment when it comes to Historical Romances...well you are wrong!).

Review: When The Duke Was Wicked (Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James) - ENG

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.