A review by tessisreading2
If I Only Had a Duke by Lenora Bell

3.0

Yet another frothy "historical" romance with more romance than history. Pleasant enough, but relatively early on there were some scenes which brought to mind "Devil in Winter" (probably my favorite romance novel) and for the rest of the novel I was torn between finishing it and simply re-reading Lisa Kleypas. The general plot is extremely generic and the characters, too, felt fairly generic. The book dealt pretty heavily with Ireland in that vague, modern, romantic way - no real attention devoted to the hostilities of the era - which added to the feeling that this wasn't taking place in a particular historical time period. The characters were pleasant enough but had no "grab" to them: I was happy to spend a book in their company but two hours after finishing it would have had to scramble to tell you their names. You will like this novel if this is the sort of novel you like, but it will probably not be knocking any of your favorites off the shelf.