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Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart
by Sarah MacLean
Really enjoyed the final installment of Sarah Macleans Love By Numbers series, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Dukes Heart. I give 🌟🌟🌟🌟 but it was close to 5.
Juliana is our heroine, she is the half sister of the twins St. John (heroes from the first two books in the series). She was born and raised in Italy and when her father passed she comes to live in England.
I loved Juliana as a heroine. She’s sassy and spunky and fights so hard against the constraints of English society. She wants adventure and passion and to escape the judgement of the ton.
Our hero is the Duke of Leighton, or Simon, but I don’t love that name so I called him Leighton instead haha. Now, I have been one to say Dukes are everywhere and it doesn’t even fit with the story most of the time, or even matter. This is NOT one of those stories. He is a DUKE. Cold, arrogant, the weight of responsibility heavy on his shoulders as he is always conscious of his role in society. He was born a duke and it shows. And I loved it. This is the kind of duke story I love to read.
Now, not going to lie, he can be rather an jerk. But it fit with his character to me, and it was him struggling against, well, everything that he was raised to be. Juliana was perfect for him in how she drove him crazy and pulled him from his starchy, uptight attitude and he could do nothing to stop his feelings. I loved the struggle in his character, his internal arguements with himself about what he wanted to do versus what was “right”.
There’s a lot to love about this book. It was such a fun read. You get to read about Gabriel and Callie and Nick and Isabel from the first two books. It just didn’t reach 5 star for me but it was close. I would have preferred a little more steam, but what you get was wonderfully written. There was also quite a bit going on outside their own relationship, family drama, that took the book down just a little bit to me. I also would have preferred to see what happened to have the family drama resolved in the epilogue.
This book I felt flowed well with the first (Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake). I really didn’t like the second (Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord). It just seemed so random. But anyway, the first was my favorite but this was a fun read as well.
Juliana is our heroine, she is the half sister of the twins St. John (heroes from the first two books in the series). She was born and raised in Italy and when her father passed she comes to live in England.
I loved Juliana as a heroine. She’s sassy and spunky and fights so hard against the constraints of English society. She wants adventure and passion and to escape the judgement of the ton.
Our hero is the Duke of Leighton, or Simon, but I don’t love that name so I called him Leighton instead haha. Now, I have been one to say Dukes are everywhere and it doesn’t even fit with the story most of the time, or even matter. This is NOT one of those stories. He is a DUKE. Cold, arrogant, the weight of responsibility heavy on his shoulders as he is always conscious of his role in society. He was born a duke and it shows. And I loved it. This is the kind of duke story I love to read.
Now, not going to lie, he can be rather an jerk. But it fit with his character to me, and it was him struggling against, well, everything that he was raised to be. Juliana was perfect for him in how she drove him crazy and pulled him from his starchy, uptight attitude and he could do nothing to stop his feelings. I loved the struggle in his character, his internal arguements with himself about what he wanted to do versus what was “right”.
There’s a lot to love about this book. It was such a fun read. You get to read about Gabriel and Callie and Nick and Isabel from the first two books. It just didn’t reach 5 star for me but it was close. I would have preferred a little more steam, but what you get was wonderfully written. There was also quite a bit going on outside their own relationship, family drama, that took the book down just a little bit to me. I also would have preferred to see what happened to have the family drama resolved in the epilogue.
This book I felt flowed well with the first (Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake). I really didn’t like the second (Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord). It just seemed so random. But anyway, the first was my favorite but this was a fun read as well.