Review: Great Characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
The Scandalous Love of a Duke is a great new installment to her Marlow Intrigues series.  It was nice seeing the characters from the previous books a generation later.  John is now grown up and forced to take on his Grandfather’s title of Duke.  Due to the rocky childhood we had already seen in previous books – which are not necessary to read before this one, as it is adequately represented in this text – he isn’t comfortable taking on the role he has been groomed for and takes it on reluctantly.Lark does a good job of showing John’s reluctance to take on this role, but having read the previous books I didn’t feel that his actions fit with his personality in previous books.  I didn’t get the impression in the previous books that he was all that unhappy with his life once he was living with his Mom, and this book makes it seem like he was always unhappy.  I think the distance he felt from his much younger siblings was accurately portrayed, but I think the distance from his Mom and Step-father hadn’t been present in the previous books.The romance between the characters was well done and felt realistic.  I liked John and Katherine as a couple, and felt their character growth was well written.  I recommend this book for anyone who likes a good historical romance.