Thursday, May 9, 2019

A Duke by Default/ Alyssa Cole/ 376 pgs

Why yes, I am on an Alyssa Cole reading binge. However did you guess? This is one of her contemporary romances in the Reluctant Royals series. While the writing was fabulous as always, I didn't love this one as much as her other books. Portia was a bit of a wild child in the first book but after seeing how her behavior hurt her best friend, not to mention herself, she has her life back on track. She accepts a sword-making apprenticeship in Scotland. The sword-maker, Tavish, is initially thoroughly unimpressed with Portia. But she's a social media/marketing whiz and soon she's doing all the right things for his business and they are falling for each other. Then the duke part of the plot enters the picture and the book went downhill from there. I have nothing against dukes and in fact love historical romance, which is littered with them. But Cole makes some very basic factual errors in this plot line and as a history major, I just couldn't go along with it. The sword-making business and the romance plots are both outstanding. I just wish she would have left the duke plot out.

No comments:

Post a Comment