Scan barcode
A review by jujudepamplemousse
My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid
2.0
The premises were kind of unusual and I was interested in seeing how the author would make it work.
But honestly I couldn’t get past the premises. It was kind of fucked up. Kitty has no difficulties lying and deceiving (and she don’t go with small lies) and Alexander is just fascinated and half in love with her even though they never met and she is usurping identity.
While Stacy Reid writes fairly good physical chemistry between her characters I didn’t like neither Kitty’s nor Alexander’s personalities and the repetitions in their relationship were just annoying.
I also hated how Stacy Reid dealt with Alexander’s « disability ». Alexander’s physical ailments was just a pretense for some part of the story to work. It was totally inconsistent. One moment he is in a wheelchair, the other he is climbing a tree (I re-read this scene several times because I thought I misunderstood something but no, he did climb a tree, easy !). And don’t even get me started on his impotence.
Talking of inconsistency, "And is this from Iraq ?", surely it wasn't since the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was only founded on 23 August 1921 and was before that known as Mesopotamia. I know this is fiction but it don't excuse everything...
This book would have deserved a little bit more editing. English is not even my first language and I could still picked problems with wrong or missing words or weird turns of phrase.
I enjoyed Stacey Reid before but this book disappointed me.
But honestly I couldn’t get past the premises. It was kind of fucked up. Kitty has no difficulties lying and deceiving (and she don’t go with small lies) and Alexander is just fascinated and half in love with her even though they never met and she is usurping identity.
While Stacy Reid writes fairly good physical chemistry between her characters I didn’t like neither Kitty’s nor Alexander’s personalities and the repetitions in their relationship were just annoying.
I also hated how Stacy Reid dealt with Alexander’s « disability ». Alexander’s physical ailments was just a pretense for some part of the story to work. It was totally inconsistent. One moment he is in a wheelchair, the other he is climbing a tree (I re-read this scene several times because I thought I misunderstood something but no, he did climb a tree, easy !). And don’t even get me started on his impotence.
Talking of inconsistency, "And is this from Iraq ?", surely it wasn't since the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq was only founded on 23 August 1921 and was before that known as Mesopotamia. I know this is fiction but it don't excuse everything...
This book would have deserved a little bit more editing. English is not even my first language and I could still picked problems with wrong or missing words or weird turns of phrase.
I enjoyed Stacey Reid before but this book disappointed me.