Friday, September 6, 2019

#Review: A DUKE A DOZEN by Shana Galen


    3 of 5 stars

Phineas Duncombe, ninth Duke of Mayne, never wanted to be duke. After all, he had four older brothers. When his last brother dies in an apparent accident and he’s thrust into the dukedom, Phin wants to talk to all the people who shared his brother’s last night, including the “Wanton Widow” Annabel, Countess of Longstowe. What he finds, however, is a beautiful and lovely woman, hardly wanton. After a botched first meeting where Phin is less than courteous to Annabel, she asks for his help in locating her daughter who her cruel dead husband had sent away years before. Knowing how discourteous he was earlier, Phin agrees to help her and finds the longer he’s in her company, the more he desires her, but Annabel has sworn off men after suffering years of abuse from her deceased husband.

Usually, I love Ms Galen’s books, but this one just didn’t resonate with me. While I have no problem with an older woman/younger man scenario, the 15-year age difference between Phin and Annabel was a stretch for me. If Annabel had been in her late thirties, I would have bought into their romance. With way too many sex scenes between these two, I found myself skipping most of them. What I did love was Reynolds and Meg. Their scenes together were wonderful and touching. There was a mystery running throughout the book about the way Phin’s brothers had all died and that kept me reading to the end.

I voluntarily read an advanced reader copy and all opinions are my own.





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