Finally finished Lenora Bells Blame it on the Duke. It took me 11 days which is like 10 days longer than usual to read a book. I just couldn’t really get into it. The first day I read probably about half of it and it didn’t really stir anything in me. I picked it up repeatedly over the next week but it just couldn’t hold my attention for long. I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The heroine, Alice, I found rather uninteresting. She didn’t annoy me but I didn’t love her. I guess she was just kind of there lol. Her father “wins” the hero, Nick, for her as a husband in a game of cards.

Alice is working on translating Kama Sutra text. I didn’t mind this as part of a plot line, even though it was rather silly, yet I felt that it didn’t really fit with the book. It fit a few scenes and basically gave an excuse for some exploration between the main characters.

I will say I find Lenora’s love scenes descriptive and usually interesting. They seem almost more detailed in some ways and slightly more risqué in a vanilla way. I’m sad that in the two books of hers I’ve read there’s only been 1 or 2 scenes. I guess with the Kama sutra involved I was hoping for more. 😆
I will also say I didn’t really feel the tension in this book and that is one of my favorite part parts of a romance.

The hero didn’t really do much for me either. He was rather arrogant, which I wouldn’t mind if so much of it didn’t focus on his supposed prowess in bed. If a hero is going to be like that, I want him brought to his knees by the heroine, and it just fell a bit short of that for me.

Despite all this the book wasn’t terrible. I liked my first Lenora Bell way more but I’m sure plenty of people would enjoy this story. It might just be my mood. I will say I liked the ending of this story, especially when compared to my first Lenora book, which just seemed to unravel and go crazy.