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was a great conclusion to the series,
Chase's character was built throughout this series and the character arc was pretty amazing, There's an air of mystery that surrounds Chase so I would recommend reading this series in order.
I love how Sarah MacLean told this story, all the themes she touched upon especially to do with women and society at that time, the power she gave this particular character as well as the others.
I had a really great time reading it,
Rating: Trust me when I say I love Sarah MacLean, I really love her.
Before reading this book, she was in my topof my alltime favorite historical romance authors, just after Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn.
I believe this book could've gotfrom me if the summary wasn't so damn good or if it was from another author.
After loathing No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, I expected MacLean to redeem herself with a strong closure.
How disappointing to see she missed this opportunity and released another lackluster romance,
Summary:
What I loved:
The writing: Mrs MacLean's writing style is still on point.
I really loved going through this novel just for her writing,
The idea: Everything, from Chase's identity to the point of the Fallen Angel's existence
Caroline: Even though I still think Caroline's wiseness is unbelievable at this point, I really liked her sassy lines and ways.
What I disliked:
The main characters: Georgina was supposed to be a strong, witty and independent woma, a feminist born at the wrong time.
What did I get Some weak, pathetic woman who bow down in front of Duncan and let him lead the game and play with her.
I'm even more disappointed because MacLean served us some awesomeness with Julianna in Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart and Calpurnia in her debut novel Nine Rules to Break when Romancing a Rake.
I just don't understand how an author can write powerful, overpowering women and then creates such a vapid, flat character.
MacLean called Georgina "the most powerful women in Great Britain" but never I felt she was actually powerful and strong and every lie I was promised to see in Georgina's character.
All MacLean did was to make Georgina say:
"The years away had been tremendously freeing once shed accepted the idea that shed never have the life for which shed been so well prepared.
It wasnt just the corset and skirts that constricted now, It was the knowledge that mere feet away, there were hundreds of prying eyes watching, judging, waiting for her to make a mistake.
Hundreds of people, with no purpose, desperate to see her fall,
But this time, she was more powerful than any of them, "
As if it wasn't enough, this whole book is about how the main characters Georgina and Duncan are supposed to be the most powerful people of the realm.
Key word: supposed. It was all talk, no show,
"A king Duncan in his own right, with power unrivaled by all but one Georgina.
Georgiana sighed, suddenly keenly aware of how powerless secondmostpowerful could be, "
Although I liked the idea of Georgina taking revenge by , it fell so flat and ridiculous in the actual novel.
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"And so shed vowed to make Society beholden to her.
Shed collected information on the most powerful among them and, if they owed money they could not pay, she rarely hesitated to use it to wreck them.
This whole worldthe club, the money, the powerit was all for one thing, To hold court over the world that had shunned her all those years ago, That had turned its back on her, and left her with nothing, "
I'm still failling to see how she's avenging herself from Society by ruinig some of its members This seems even more dumb since she came back to this same Society to be accepted and make her bastard daughter acceptable.
Can someone tell her a bastard remains a bastard no matter how titled is his/her stepfather Besides, I found it very hypocritical how Georgina called out Society's mysoginistic and cruel ways while doing everything to marry her daughter off to a man belonging to this same Society.
And all because she feels her daughter would be happier with an aristocrate as a husband,
Georgina convinced herself her daughter's happiness can only be reached through a good marriage, And thus even though Caroline claimed she wasn't interested in High Society,
"Caroline signed, “Society events sound terribly boring, ”
“Theyre not, you know, ”
Caroline turned surprise eyes on her mother, “Theyre not”
Georgiana shook her head, “Theyre not. Theyre really quite entertaining if youre, . . ” she hesitated. If youre welcome to them didnt seem to be the appropriate finish to the sentence, Particularly since Caroline was fairly ruined, “If youre interested in that sort of thing, ”"
Too much hypocrisy, I'm done,
I won't talk much about Duncan, he was as bland and facepalm worthy as Georgina.
Other than assuming for likepages Georgina is Chase's mistress, he doesn't make much impression, He's another bossy, annoying, knowitall prick who patronizes the heroine and orders her around, As the most powerful woman of Great Britain, she, of course, let herself being ordered around, Yep. Totally coherent with her level of power, rank and personality,
I just got sick of one thing: the freaking instalove, Yep. This book has a severe instalove disease, Not even a month passed and Duncan is already in love,
"He Duncan loved her,
The realization should have terrified him, but instead, it washed over him with the warm pleasure that came from truth, finally revealed.
And at the far edge of that pleasure was the edge of something unpleasant, Devastation. Denial. "
This paragraph appears TWO WEEKS after Georgina and Duncan's FIRST MEETING.
I don't about you but I don't believe anyone, let alone anyone who doesn't believe in love or think "love is bollocks", can fall in love in two weeks.
Well, except if they had been locked up together, but that's another story,
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