Publisher/Year Published: Jan 2016 by Forever
How I got this book: I received a review copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Why I read this book: The summary really intrigued me. How could I not want to give it a try?
Rating: 5 stars
Summary
Captain Maximus Harcourt, the unconventional tenth Duke of Alderidge, can deal with tropical storms, raging seas, and the fiercest of pirates. But he's returned home from his latest voyage to find a naked earl—quite inconveniently deceased—tied to his missing sister's bed. And he has only one place to turn. Now he's at the mercy of the captivating Miss Ivory Moore of Chegarre & Associates, known throughout London for smoothing over the most dire of scandals.Review
Miss Moore treats the crisis as though it were no more serious than a cup of spilt tea on an expensive rug. As though this sort of thing happened on the job every day. Max has never in all his life met a woman with such nerve. Her dark eyes are too wide, her mouth is too full, her cheekbones too sharp. Yet together, she's somehow...flawless. It's just like his love for her, imperfect, unexpected—yet absolutely true.
I have a problem. I am really, really picky on my
historical romance novel authors. I rarely try new ones, and when I do the hook
has to be good. When I read the summary for Duke
of My Heart, I knew I had to give it a shot, and I am glad that I did.
Max and Ivory were super interesting characters.
First, you have a hero running away from his lot in life, and coming back to
everything in shambles. Then you have Ivory, a woman who built herself from the
ground up and continues to adapt and shape her life regardless of what twists
and turns life has thrown at her. They meet in the most odd of circumstances,
in his sister’s room with a dead naked man tied to her bed and the sister
missing. I mean that plot thread right there is enough to get me to want to
read on.
The story takes place around finding out what
happened to the Duke’s sister. It moves through this at a good pace, though I
will say it seemed at times there was a lot going on. At one point you are
following thread A and now all of a sudden thread F comes out of nowhere and we
are on that train now! But honestly that was a minor quibble and wasn’t enough
to distract me from liking and devouring this book.
I really enjoyed the characters, especially the fact
that they didn’t lose their sense of themselves as they fell in love. It
sometimes frustrates me when the hero or heroine makes a complete 180 by the
power of love. I like to see how they grow and change, and grapple with the
things that are happening. We get that here.
This was my first book by Kelly Bowen, as I
mentioned, and I definitely want to pick up the next in this series
Thanks to Forever and Netgalley for the review copy of this book.
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