Rating: ⭐⭐⭐✨⬜
Title: The Heiress Gets a Duke
Author: Harper St. James
Genre: Romance / Historical Fiction
Setting: London, England
Month Read: April 2022
Book Type: Hardcover
Publication: December 2020
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 316
*Book of the Month Pick
TRIGGER WARNING-
Alcohol / Sexual Themes / Violence / Grief
"When you love someone, I don’t think the passing years mean very much. Yesterday, or several years, the pain of their loss is still there."
No Spoiler Summary:
The Heiress Gets a Duke is a historical fiction romance novel about August Crenshaw, a new-money Gilded Age Heiress, and Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild. August is anti-marriage (at least for now), and Evan needs to get married to someone with money to save the estate his father left to ruin. When parents get involved, and marriages get arranged, will Evan and August be able to forge their own paths? Will that path include them falling in love?
Review:
I'm very much into historical romances (check my obsession with The League of Extraordinary Women series) and this series has been sitting on my BotM tbr for quite a while. I finally had a box that wasn't filled, and decided I wanted a romance to read in-between some larger books, and now I am sufficiently HOOKED.
First, I love love love love love feminist historical romances. August is feminist to the core, and I love that Evan loves that about her. It made a very refreshing enemies to lovers plot, and I enjoy that at no time does he try to dim her light, and even supports her working in a time where rich women definitely did not work.
Secondly, the side characters are fantastic, and I can't wait to see them again. You get just enough of Augusts' sister, and who I assume is her future betrothed- and it really leaves you wanting more. I'm hoping to visit them in a future book later this year so keep an eye out for that. :)
Third, the 'villains' (?) were perfect. The right amount of just kind of awful humans, and also you sort of see where they're coming from. I enjoy an enemies to lovers plot where everyone seems to know the couple is destined for each other, but the actual couple has no idea. Also, the backdrop of the Gilded Age behind them was fantastic, because I just binged that on HBO Max real hard.
Recommendation:
The League of Extraordinary Women Series by Evie Dunmore
The Sinful Suitors Series by Sabrina Jeffries
"The choice is yours. God knows I want you, but if you do not want me, I promise I will do my best to leave you alone for the rest of the crossing. "
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