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Duke Most Wicked by Lenora Bell
4.0
Duke Most Wanted by Lenora Bell
This book was such a sweet romance about a music tutor, Viola Beaton (daughter of a very famous composer) who comes to teach the Duke of Westbury’s sisters but ends up being their friend, governess, chaperone and confidant too. All the while falling for the Wicked Duke but knowing she can never possibly be his duchess. He must marry an heiress and she’s as impoverished as they come.
Brandan Delamar, Duke of Westbury, has his own dark past and decided a long time ago to rebel against polite society and do whatever the damn hell he pleases. When he comes to realise how much it is affecting his sisters’ prospects of marriage, he decides that now is the time he may have to change his ways. Will he fail like his departed Papa predicted? Or will a certain music teacher turn him into the most respectable gentleman there ever was?
I really enjoyed this book, although having not read the previous in the series (this is book 3) I do intend going back and catching up on all the other characters that were mentioned. There is a very sweet moment in the book where her very-nearly deaf father struggles with his symphony and he saws off the legs of the pianoforte, he places it and himself on the floor to hear the vibrations, but the duke brings him a very expensive ear trumpet and the gratitude you feel from Viola at this simple gift was heart melting.
This is a lovely story of class differences which is one of my favourite tropes.
4.5 stars. Book out now.
Thank you to the publisher (Avon Books) for an ARC via Netgalley. All thoughts and views are my own.
This book was such a sweet romance about a music tutor, Viola Beaton (daughter of a very famous composer) who comes to teach the Duke of Westbury’s sisters but ends up being their friend, governess, chaperone and confidant too. All the while falling for the Wicked Duke but knowing she can never possibly be his duchess. He must marry an heiress and she’s as impoverished as they come.
Brandan Delamar, Duke of Westbury, has his own dark past and decided a long time ago to rebel against polite society and do whatever the damn hell he pleases. When he comes to realise how much it is affecting his sisters’ prospects of marriage, he decides that now is the time he may have to change his ways. Will he fail like his departed Papa predicted? Or will a certain music teacher turn him into the most respectable gentleman there ever was?
I really enjoyed this book, although having not read the previous in the series (this is book 3) I do intend going back and catching up on all the other characters that were mentioned. There is a very sweet moment in the book where her very-nearly deaf father struggles with his symphony and he saws off the legs of the pianoforte, he places it and himself on the floor to hear the vibrations, but the duke brings him a very expensive ear trumpet and the gratitude you feel from Viola at this simple gift was heart melting.
This is a lovely story of class differences which is one of my favourite tropes.
4.5 stars. Book out now.
Thank you to the publisher (Avon Books) for an ARC via Netgalley. All thoughts and views are my own.