Overall: I put this book in timeout for a week because I was really worried about the black moment, but I needn’t have been Plot: Shy young lady decides to woo proper vicar away from his terrible fiancée and intrigues the disdainful duke, who is clearly perfect for her, in the process BOOK REVIEW: Fighting Words: The Bold American Jou.Heat Factor: They get married at about 70% and have a ton of really polite sexĬharacter Chemistry: I like the sparring partners thing they have going on.BOOK REVIEW: Say No to the Duke by Eloisa James.BOOK REVIEW: Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James.
BOOK REVIEW: To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James. BOOK REVIEW: The Grove of the Caesars by Lindsey D. BOOK REVIEW: First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn. I look forward to the next book in the series. Viola is a particularly sensible and forgiving sort. The remainder of the novel is the married couple finishing the work of the courtship. They have to marry before they have a chance to get to know each other very well because they are caught in a compromising position. What brings these two together mostly is sexual attraction. The courtship is a growth process for them both. She is still attached to the idea of the vicar and has trouble forgiving the duke for what she has heard. The man is so obnoxious, she ends up giving him a piece of her mind. Rather than flattening her, it energizes her. Thus, he gives voice to Viola’s greatest fear. He’s thinking of Joan, because the other one is not a real Wilde. He has heard that a Wilde daughter is available and since he feels he must marry the daughter of a duke, and is entitled to do so, this one will do. Known to be cold, haughty, and anti-social, the duke has come to London in search of a wife, because that’s what dukes do. She overhears two men in discussion.ĭevin Elstan, Duke of Wynter, is one of the men. But when she gets to the library, it isn’t empty. At Viola’s debutante ball, she asks the vicar to meet her in the library for moral support. Viola and her family (including her step-sister Joan who will be debuting at the same time) make their way to London. 
The vicar has a fiancee, but the woman is so shrewish and clearly wrong for him that Viola feels no qualms about hoping to steal him away. Dreading her debut to the point of physical illness, Viola is emboldened when a handsome, young, kindly vicar is recruited to their village. She doesn’t feel like she is a “true” Wilde, even though her family has always treated her as one of them. Unlike the rest of her family (tall, lean, self-confident, bold), Viola is short, voluptuous, and excessively shy. The heroine in this novel is Viola Astley, an adopted daughter of the Duke of Lindow.
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