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The Good, the Bad, and the Duke

Tekijä: Janna MacGregor

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Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream--opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn't problem-free: She's in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother's best friend-turned-enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that's not all: someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that could devastate her family. Daphne has always harbored private feelings for the man her family scorns...though perhaps striking a bargain with the handsome Duke will solve both their problems? Paul, long considered good for nothing, aims to open a hospital to honor his brother and restore his reputation. So when a conflict over the land brings him straight into Daphne's life, they make a deal: He will help her find her diary if Daphne can change her family's opinion of him. But before he can win her family's affection, he has to win hers first. Maybe love was the answer to their family feud all along?… (lisätietoja)
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Another great romance from Janna MacGregor. No one does character development better. You will love Daphne and Paul and their adventures together. ( )
  SharleneMartinMoore | Apr 24, 2021 |
I was thrilled when I found out that there was another book in the Cavensham Heiresses series! I had reviewed book 3 (The Luck of the Bride) and couldn’t wait to see what happened next. The Good, the Bad, and the Duke did not disappoint. I had gone back to read the first books in the series and really didn’t like Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart, but after reading this book I’ve changed my opinion. He really was in a tough place and wanted to make something of himself. With Daphne’s help and love he can become the man that he wanted to be. Looks like there’s another book slated for 2019, and it’s William’s story!!

This review is based on an ARC from NetGalley, courtesy of the publisher. All opinions are my own. ( )
  Caelijean | Apr 21, 2020 |
Full Disclosure: Janna MacGregor is one of my favorite authors and her Cavensham Heiresses series is one of my favorites. This 4th book in the series does not disappoint.
While Paul, the new Duke of Southart, has been portrayed as a villainous rake in the previous books, Lady Daphne has been in love with him since she was a young girl. He had been a friend of her brother but he damaged that relationship with his bad behavior - which eventually led to her brother's happy marriage.
As the Christmas holidays approach - Daphne is left behind in a scene reminiscent of Home Alone. She goes upstairs to change and when she comes back down her whole family has left her behind. Her brother thought she was traveling with their mother and step-father and they thought she was traveling with her brother's family. Left alone in London, she goes for a walk only to have her journal stolen. The journal contains her thoughts and secrets and would be disaster if it's contents got out. Luckily for her, Paul spots her and decides to help with the journal search.
The chemistry between the two is amazing. The pages sizzle with it. But surprisingly, it is in the quiet times when this book really shines. These two misunderstood people recognize something in each other. He has always lived down to his father's low expectations by being a scandalous rake. On the other had, she has always tried to be the good girl, becoming almost invisible in the process.
One of the most touching scenes in the book occurs between Paul and Daphne's little neice, Lady Margaret. It will bring a tear to your eyes.
There is additional sorrow to come as each tries to sacrifice to say the other but there is nothing that will keep these two from getting the Happily Ever After that the deserve in the end.
I received a free advanced copy of this book. ( )
  ddeluna1 | Mar 19, 2020 |
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

He’d been desired before, but never with that look. She thought him noble.
He stumbled back a step.


Fourth in the Cavensham Heiresses series, we finally get Paul Barstowe, the Duke of Southart's story. He is the friend of the previous heroes of the series who has become the outcast due to circumstances out of his control and of his own making. Our heroine Daphne is the younger sister to one of the previous heroes and she has always held a tendre for Paul. When Daphne ends up accidentally being home alone during Christmas time and desperately searching for her stolen diary, Paul ends up partnering her on the adventures.

Even if you haven't read the previous books in the series, there wouldn't much of a problem starting here. The author does a good job of relaying the how and why of past relationships, there would be a missed deeper connection but Daphne and Paul's relationship is the main focus of the story and that starts in this book. Paul's history is a little bit of wrong place, wrong time with some ill gotten luck, his father was cold to him and while he had a loving relationship with his brother, that brother is now deceased. His two closest friends are still wary and cold to him but since obtaining the title of Duke, he has been working hard to make something of himself.

Daphne is surrounded by happy marriages and is starting to get tired of hiding in the shadows as a way to not cause problems as she didn't want to upset anyone after her sister died. When she gets left alone, she finds it a perfect opportunity to get her life in order. I liked the premise of these two coming together, enjoyed a few flashbacks to how she and Paul interacted in their younger years but the physical attraction started immediately and was the focus throughout the vast majority of the story.

I feel like I'm beginning to notice a trend in historical romance where there is an insistence to feature blowjobs. The first one featured here isn't between the hero and heroine but the heroine's desire to watch and want and the heroine's second sexual encounter with the hero where she does the act, felt out of place in this. I, personally, read historicals for a different feel on the romance between the heroine and hero, I like the focus to be more on the words or feelings and not physical acts in the bedroom. I'm not saying this can never work for me but, here, it didn't.

I also like to read historicals for the time period feel and as Daphne and Paul never venture from about three locations, her house, a gaming hall, and his house, I couldn't even tell you within ten years when this story was supposed to take place. I like character driven stories, with the thread of wanting to find Daphne's diary, this story was mainly focused on Daphne and Paul but they never ventured from Paul finding Daphne gorgeous but constantly and morosely thinking he wasn't good enough for her and Daphne wanting Paul, with her wanting to stem only from him being nice to her when she was younger and his good looks. There was also a lot of repetitiveness, with Daphne being close to TSTL with insisting on putting herself in obviously dangerous (reputation wise) situations, Paul objecting but then eventually going along with her, so much rinse and repeat.

There just wasn't enough meat to this story to keep me actively involved, I felt like I was passively reading because all our main characters did was lust (kind of lukewarm meandering lust, at that) and our hero was a little bit of an Eeyore about how he wasn't good enough. I've read the first in the series (debut) by this author and thought she had good promise and then really enjoyed the second, but this one felt like a lackluster phone in. I do, however, find the cover to still be as gorgeous as ever. ( )
  WhiskeyintheJar | Feb 14, 2019 |
The sparks fly between the two main characters. This story has colorful characters that are lots of fun! ( )
  whybehave2002 | Jan 19, 2019 |
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Lady Daphne Hallworth is ready to celebrate the holidays with her family. But when they accidentally leave her home alone, Daphne uses the time to work on her dream--opening a home for unwed mothers. But her quest isn't problem-free: She's in a battle to win the property for the home against her brother's best friend-turned-enemy, Paul Barstowe, Duke of Southart. And that's not all: someone has stolen her personal diary, which holds secrets that could devastate her family. Daphne has always harbored private feelings for the man her family scorns...though perhaps striking a bargain with the handsome Duke will solve both their problems? Paul, long considered good for nothing, aims to open a hospital to honor his brother and restore his reputation. So when a conflict over the land brings him straight into Daphne's life, they make a deal: He will help her find her diary if Daphne can change her family's opinion of him. But before he can win her family's affection, he has to win hers first. Maybe love was the answer to their family feud all along?

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