A review by kim03
How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

Wonderful.
A few remarks / neutral:
  • The reader is thrown right into the um. Trauma. So once I read the dedication at the beginning, I mentally prepared and got through it. After that, the book kinda veered into healing (concerning the trauma)
  • The language got some getting used to. I had some problems understanding what happened at the beginning, which I guess could be called a blessing in disguise.
What I liked:
  • The language (once I got used to it). It was beautiful, poetic at times and fit right in with the story (the content and time)
  • The characters. They were so well flashed out. They were products of their time yet a reflection of people from the present (humanity and its problems are timeless, after all); their actions and reasons are understandable and reasonable. It made perfect sense why they each thought the way they did, acted the way they did, both with each other and with others. His character was fascinating in particular. He was aggressive yet charming and sweet. Confident yet insecure. As a whole, he was big and dangerous yet safe and secure. She was healing at a realistic pace, her feelings were all valid. To add: their 'modern' values still made sense for me in the historical context and made me feel even more right and secure with the story.
  • Their love. The two of them were just so cute and lovely together. There was a back and forth of course, because problems / drama, but even that made sense in the context of their past.

Tropes: marriage of convenience
Triggerwarning: rape & sexual assault, murder death of a parent
Mood songs:
Taylor Swift: »This is why we can't have nice things«, »invisible string«, »seven«, »the lakes«, »Afterglow«
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