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Publisher:
Avon Books (HarperCollins) |
Release
Date: December 2003 |
ISBN:
006051969X |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Historical Romance [Regency, London] |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewer
Notes: Some sex |
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The
Duchess Diaries
By Mia Ryan
Lady
Lara Darling doesn’t want a Season, and she certainly doesn’t
want to get married. But her family is poor so the only way she
can give her six younger sisters a chance of a future is to snare
a rich man. She has the wise words of her deceased grandmother to
guide her, but such a hoyden as Lara just can’t help getting
into trouble, and can never resist a challenge especially if it
involves driving a coach. So perhaps it is not such a wonder that
she starts finding the dashing coachman nicknamed “The Baron”
so interesting…
I do enjoy a laugh when I read a romance
and the daring exploits of Lara are certainly entertaining. This
is an engaging Regency romance with some congenial characters, the
sort of thing that ought to put any romance fan in a good mood.
There is no teasing sub-plot or steamy sex, but some nice descriptions
of social events during the Season and the whole tale has the right
lightness to be effective. The hero isn’t too overbearing
and the protagonists don’t spend pages playing “the
battle of the sexes” which I tend to find tedious if played
to excess. So nothing remarkable but a good tale nonetheless and
I’d read another by this new author. Good-humored fun.
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