ten things i hate about the duke by loretta chase

At first I struggled, and then slowly things picked up, and Chase's facility with language kept me engaged. The two met as children, and then collide again in a Taming of the Shrew-riff. That said, Ten Things I Hate About the Duke is a pretty slow burn romance between Cassandra Pomfret, a noblewoman who chafes at the narrow role in which she's boxed, and the Lucius, the Duke of Ashmont, who frankly is a hot drunken mess. I love many things about her writing-in particular how I never feel reading one of her historical romances that it's actually a modern romance with historical trappings.

The only way to right the wrong is to marry her…and hope she doesn’t smother him in his sleep on their wedding night. Still, troublemaker that he is, he knows that damaging a lady’s good name isn’t sporting. He nearly killed one of his two best friends. He’s lost a perfectly good bride through his own carelessness. The Duke of Ashmont’s looks make women swoon. Now, thanks to a certain wild-living nobleman, the last shreds of Cassandra’s reputation are about to disintegrate, taking her sister’s future and her family’s good name along with them. But her extremely plain speaking has caused an uproar, and her exasperated father, hoping a husband will rein her in, has ruled that her beloved sister can’t marry until Cassandra does. This time, who’s taming whom…Ĭassandra Pomfret holds strong opinions she isn’t shy about voicing. USA Today bestselling author Loretta Chase continues her Difficult Dukes series with this delightful spin on Shakespeare's classic, The Taming of the Shrew.

Ten things i hate about the duke by loretta chase