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While the Duke Was Sleeping by Sophie Jordan
2.0

Takes the premise of the film "While you were sleeping" and sets it in Regency England with far less likeable characters. Poppy, our shop girl heroine who is secretly in love with the duke who is the flower shop's best customer is accidentally mistaken for his fiancee after a carriage accident puts him in a coma. Of course, his sexy Scottish half-brother becomes too much for Poppy to resist, throwing her into web of lies and deceit.

I didn't like the characters. Poppy was annoying, and nothing like awesome Lucy from the movie. Struan, the Scottish bastard, is really a bastard. He is constantly pushing Poppy into compromising situations, treats her badly, and yet somehow she falls in love with him. I didn't find their romance very believable.