Ten Things I Hate about the Duke

Typical Loretta Chase - dry, witty, excellent narration and dialogue, and engaging characters. This is a direct follow up to Duke in Shining Armor, following Ashmount’s subsequent ‘adventures’. In Ashmont we have a character we have seen in other Chase books, but he is no less engaging for that, while his lady’s character we have also seen before in books like Lord of Scoundrels. Thoroughly entertaining, no one dies or is captured by the enemy. Just a great lighthearted read. Not as humorous as some of her work and by no means her best, but as the ‘best of Loretta Chase’ also means the absolute best in this genre, this is not the criticism it might appear. My only disappointment was the lack of resolution of Blackwood’s fate - hopefully the next book?