The Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
I was really excited about this book. The cover and title had me hooked, and I was jonesing for a historical romance read to make the Corona pass faster.
PLOT:
A widow with a small baby boy is taken advantage of by her late husband's uncle who locks her up and then has her committed. With the help of a group of widows, she is able to leave the asylum and try to regain her papers and her baby. In her way is the Duke a war veteran with an amputated leg and a cousin to her late husband, who has come to be the boy's guardian.
THOUGHTS:
I did like the idea of the Widows protecting each other and the group righting wrongs, that definitely caught my attention, but I didn't feel that excitement for the rest of the plot. Unfortunately, I never could get into the book.
The POVs for the different main characters were in first or third person, which was confusing.
It also felt like the same conversations kept happening over and over. He threatened to fire her in literally every chapter of the first half of the book.
And even though by this point in the book it was a love match, they ended up with a marriage of convenience for a while, which didn't seem to fit. Maybe if it had happened very early in the book that could have worked.
HERO: 🍆🍆
HEROINE: 🍑🍑
RATING: ⭐⭐
All in all, a miss for me. Thank you to Netgalley and Kensington Books for the ARC.
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