Review: Charming the Duke
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
Matilda Sheldon is an intelligent, down to earth, plain, single daughter of a family of three daughters and two sons. She happens to be the only one in the family, besides her grandmother, Ethel, with any common sense. Frederick Wilcox, Duke of Thornsby, is looking for a wife finally; he will be thirty very soon and will need a wife in order to inherit. He visits the Sheldons at first in order to meet Matilda's two attractive sisters, even though his sister, Athena, has told him that the only one in the family with any sense is Matilda. He soon discovers that his sister is correct because he can't make head or tails of any conversations of the the two attractive Sheldon girls. When he first meets Matilda, he assumes she is a maid, due to her dress. Needless to say this doesn't put him in good stead with Matilda but he isn't interested in her-at first. He may have an attraction toward Matilda but convincing her is another problem, especially as she has only ever considered husbands annoying and she doesn't need any man to tell her what she may or may not do. I loved Matilda's character, she was an independent thinker and a mover and shaker in her time. She frustrates the Duke to no end.