Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase
Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase Series: Difficult Dukes
on December 1, 2020
Genres: Fiction / Family Life / Siblings, Fiction / Romance / Historical / Victorian, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women
Pages: 384
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USA Today bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, The Taming of the Shrew.
This time, who’s taming whom…
Cassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn’t shy
about voicing. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated
father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister
can’t marry until Cassandra does.
Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the
last shreds of Cassandra’s reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her
sister’s future and her family’s good name along with them.
The Duke of Ashmont’s looks make women swoon. His character
flaws are beyond counting. He’s lost a perfectly good bride through his own
carelessness. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. Still, troublemaker
that he is, he knows that damaging a lady’s good name isn’t sporting.
The only way to right the wrong is to marry her…and
hope she doesn’t smother him in his sleep on their wedding night.
Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase is book two in the Difficult Dukes series. I enjoyed this story. It has clever banter and a fast pace picking up soon after the events in A Duke in Shining Armor. In this book, the hero is “His Grace of the Angel Face” Lucius Wilmont Beckingham, the Duke of Ashmont who is mostly an immature drunkard and Cassandra Pomfret the eldest daughter of an esteemed politician named Lord deGriffith. Because his eldest daughter does not choose to live a quiet and subdued life but instead continually pokes her nose into politics, Lord deGriffith decides that his youngest and more beautiful daughter may not marry until Cassandra reigns herself in and gets married herself. It is in some ways similar to Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. But in reality, Cassandra is just a woman born at the wrong time. She is an avid follower of Mary Wollstonecraft’s book A Vindication of The Rights of Women, and she aligns herself with societies who seek to help others. When Lucius unwittingly causes the injury of Cassandra’s tiger and body guard Keeffe, he must work to make amends and ultimately to be a man who Cassandra would approve of. I think out of the three books in this series this one was my favorite. I loved watching Lucius grow and push himself in ways he had never had to before. I also enjoyed the way Chase made the era spring to life by mentioning real places such as the Cosmorama and the Grand Fancy Fair and Bazaar for the Benefit of the Society of Friends and Foreigners in Distress. Another wonderful book in her Difficult Dukes series.
