Bringing Down the Duke: swoony, feminist and romantic, perfect for fans of Bridgerton (A League of Extraordinary Women)

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Her defining personality trait, really, is that she's Not Like the Other Girls—hence why she'll go to a ball in a skintight, fashionable gown with no undergarments on underneath! It's whilst fulfilling this duty, that she first meets the wealthy and powerful Duke of Montgomery (Sebastian), a cold and brooding man, with links to the Tory party and to Queen Victoria. Both have been burned in love before, and this influences how they approach each other, both equally cognizant of the attraction between them yet also wary of once again making the wrong decision in romance.

I'm going to be clamouring for more A League of Extraordinary Women books and likely seriously regretting my decision to read this early because now the wait will feel even longer than just a year. Moreover when it boils down to her fears, they were pretty much the same as any other woman in historical times, scandal, getting pregnant out of wedlock, being shunned, having to marry without love, and ending up as a mistress.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It certainly got me a little hot under the collar in parts, but I loved their emotional development as much as their romantic.

the writing was incredible, the characters had so much depth, and talk about feeling the story: this was impossible love at its best! There were so many instances where it made me feel genuinely bright and happy, with its wry humor and strange anachronisms. I love Sebastian’s struggle to uphold his family name, and I love Annabelle’s struggle to break out of the mold that her financial situation imposes upon her.Fun, full of time period history and setting, steamy tension between Annabelle and the Duke (loved them both). The pretext for their run-in was the first hint of bad things to come because it was a badly devised supposed suffragette subplot. If you are a voracious historical romance reader like me, then you have most likely read a plethora of historical romance novels where the Duke hero refuses to marry the heroine because she is below him in station. The protagonist also became very emotionally dependent on him, and I wish she had stood her ground more firmly in her decisions and what she believed in, especially since this book is supposed to be about suffragists.

And as it is with this old and predictable drama, it takes a dramatic life or death situation for the lofty Duke to come to his senses and propose.Strong women and the dashing men who value them for their mind and their wit will do it for me every time. This alone makes it this book worth reading and will give you a new appreciation of the women's role in society today. The developing romance is involving, the by-now obligatory bedroom scenes are enlivened by the dialogue, and the insights into the suffragist movement and the situation of women in universities during the late nineteenth century are enlightening.