The Duke in Question

I got an Arc of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. It's the third in a series, and I haven't read the previous one, but as each features a new couple I didn't feel I was missing too much. I quite enjoyed this book, Our heroine, Bronwyn, is quite progressive, and smart, and I always appreciate that in my heroines. Valentine is grumpy and has his set rules. He does his best not to fall head over heels for Bronwyn, but we all know how that goes. I enjoyed the banter, and the cat and mouse game between the two, but I felt the lust hit a bit fast as soon as the attraction started. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean the spicy scenes are bad, but as the story progressed I was missing a bit more of a personal connection between the two. The romance part feels a bit too modern, like they got away with it to easily. That's the part that knocks my rating down a bit sadly. It didn't feel like there was any real danger of them being found out. I think that if they had been forced to marry at the halfway mark, or the before the last act due to the expectations of the time period things could have maybe come across a little more believable. I really appreciated that the author tried to fit in real historic events to the story, it's a nice way to learn a few new things. This book is definitely for lovers of costume dramas and spice 3.5 stars