A review by tessisreading2
Wicked Becomes You by Meredith Duran

3.0

Well-written and great setting, although large portions of it did feel a little bit like an excuse to romp through the seedier parts of Victorian Paris. However, it didn't quite click for me - I found the heroine to be one of those obnoxious "naive-debutante-yearning-to-break-free" who is utterly lacking in common sense (by all means, darling, let's trot around to brothels and flirt with complete strangers in the middle of a bar two weeks after getting left at the altar), and the chemistry between her and the hero didn't feel real. It was much more telling than showing there, and while we're told later in the book that the hero had been secretly yearning for her for yonks, those bits just felt kind of shoehorned in. The plot also wasn't... so much a thing. Threads were raised and dropped, and there were too many little mysteries/side-plots (Richard's ring, Richard's death, why Gwen's two suitors each bailed, the whole thing with the hero's brother and all the stuff surrounding that) for any of them to feel crucial to the flow of the novel.