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A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean
2.0
DNF at 95% - wow. This took a turn. 

A lot of this just didn’t work for me. I’m hoping most of it is just this book (aka Alec) as opposed to MacLean. What didn’t work:
  • Incredibly repetitive conversations. The main characters had the same argument far too many times. 
  • The goalposts kept flip flopping on how to resolve the primary conflict in ways that felt very frustrating and a waste of time. I felt like Michael Scott describing his series of vasectomies and vasectomy reversals. 
  • Alec talking a big game to the bad guy ad nauseum. No follow through for 95% of the book. 
  • Alec’s secret past shame needed some sort of good faith foreshadowing earlier. We get zero explanation other than this dude is SO BIG and SO HOT women LUST FOR HIM but ONLY FOR ONE NIGHT and NEVER FOR FOREVER. Alec big sad. This may have been a problem in ye olde England but it doesn’t feel like a “real” problem to a modern reader. Also brotato is a MFin Duke. 
  • Maybe don’t make the other marriageable dude so much more likable, emotionally available, and kinder than our “hero”? Yeesh. Marry this dude, lady. 

I didn’t think I would be rating this less than 3 stars but alas.