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Lädt ... The Day of the Duchessvon Sarah MacLean
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The Day of the Duchess 2 Stars Unfortunately, the final installment in Sarah MacLean's Scandal & Scoundrel series is disappointing. Although it has potential, the book simply contains too many annoying tropes. However, readers who do not have the same issues will probably enjoy the story. So what are the offending tropes? To begin with, this is a second chances romance, and suffice it to say that the hero behaved so abominably in the first book of the series that it is extremely difficult to get past his transgressions. Second, the hero and heroine are incapable of communication. The number of misunderstandings stemming from the fact that they cannot have an honest discussion and admit to their feelings is completely excessive and turns the book into one big angst-fest. Finally, the linear progression of the narrative is interspersed with a series of flashbacks that move backwards in time, which is not only disorienting, but distracts from the romance as the reader knows in advance what happened prior to the presentation of the actual events. In sum, not up to Sarah MacLean's standards. This book is more bittersweet than most romance novels. The time slip storytelling beautifully weaves together the rise and fall of Sera and Malcolm's marriage. Watching the characters grow through love, loss, grief, and pain is worth the read. Sera's sisters are a hilarious bunch that wonderfully counterpoint the heartache of Sera and Mal. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: The third book in Sarah MacLean's witty and romantic Scandal & Scoundrel series featuring a ravishing heroine and the man, desperately in love, who now has to make amends. The one woman he will never forget... Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, has lived the last three years in self-imposed solitude, paying the price for a mistake he can never reverse and a love he lost forever. The dukedom does not wait, however, and Haven requires an heir, which means he must find himself a wife by summer's end. There is only one problemâ??he already has one. The one man she will never forgive... After years in exile, Seraphina, Duchess of Haven, returns to London with a single goalâ??to reclaim the life she left and find happiness, unencumbered by the man who broke her heart. Haven offers her a deal; Sera can have her freedom, just as soon as she finds her replacement...which requires her to spend the summer in close quarters with the husband she does not want, but somehow cannot resist. A love that neither can deny... The duke has a single summer to woo his wife and convince her that, despite their broken past, he can give her forever, making every day the Day of the Duchess Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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March 2023 original review:
2.5 stars
My first Sarah MacLean! lol and likely my last. I gave her a good shot, but I kind of knew going in that her writing likely wouldn't be for me. Sorry but her dialogue is a cringe-fest to me. So much, "Hello Husband!" "Yes, WIFE!" get me out of here!
There is a lot of white feminism moments in this book that feels oppressive in its heavy-handedness. Like HEY DID YOU KNOW THIS IS A FEMINIST BOOK ABOUT FEMINISTS DOING FEMINISM IN A FEMINIST GIRL GANG??? This is THE book where I realized I don't like girl gangs in histrom - they are tedious. The whole old wife pick me a new wife at our country estate didn't really work well. It was lazy. I also wanted more for Sera during her time traveling, like maybe a relationship with other people? (there was ample opportunity with the American she met and traveled back to England with, for instance - I don't care that he ends up with another member of the girl gang in a different book. It would have been so fucking brave for Sera to have taken a lover and brought him back with her, even if they were just friends by that point. give me THAT book.) Anyway, Sera supposedly comes back a new person, completely unlike her previous self. But I did not feel this in the pages I read. And I don't find MacLean's sex scenes sexy at all.
I liked that the author wrote a cheating story; I'd like to see more, actually! I enjoy reading about infidelity in my romance books because it is still such a taboo and also because I think cheating provides so much potential for character work. It's sad that it is undervalued by readers. This book about infidelity just fell terribly short for me.
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