Review: So disappointing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
I said at the end of 'The Most to Lose' that I couldn't wait for this story to come out because the H and h were really entertaining in that book. This book failed to deliver. I have now read 9 books by this author and would consider myself a fan but I hope she rethinks her strategy for her next book.+++Spoilers+++This story has all the elements of what I suppose some course somewhere tells you to have in a historical romance: Duke, feisty h, initial mutual loathing, big misunderstanding etc. Sadly this book felt like an outline badly filled in.Although I appreciated that there weren't any descriptive sex scenes, the H and h had sex together a few times without any commitment between them. I struggle with this idea and many people who read my reviews know. I felt like this was part of the prerequisite outline I mentioned (another box to be checked).The h's behaviour was way too much for her to be likeable. She kept rushing off to the docks to investigate who was trying to kill her brother. She even goes again after she nearly dies. She is reckless and strong willed to the point of being awful.Another thing that got me was that we know she has loved the H for years but when he finally proposes, she rejects him for stupid reasons.There are also a number of mistakes throughout the book. In Chapter 1 the h's brother is a Viscount by Chapter 14 he is now a Marquess. No his father hadn't recently died, it's just a big mistake. There are mistakes with words 'roll' instead of role.Finally I kept wondering all the way through about the stupid title of this book. Finally in the last few pages the h calls the H her Dark Duke. Very lameCome on Ms Landon you can do so much better than this.