Bringing Down The Duke

By Eve Dunmore

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

A League of Extraordinary Women, book 1.  This is a historical fiction book set in England in the late 1870’s. The height of Women’s Suffrage. 

Annabelle is amongst the first women’s cohort studying at Oxford University. Sebastian is a popular Duke, who wants his family’s castle restored. 

They seem pitted against eachother, yet physical and intellectual attraction simmers through every interaction. 

This book had so much potential. I got a little lost and it felt muddled in the first third. Then it picked up and I was invested in the outcome of the Romeo-and-Juliet story of Annabelle and Sebastian. 

Some spicy scenes, mostly mild (for me). 

Read if: you enjoy historical romances.