2022 American Regency-ish romance, part of a loosely linked series.
Juno Bell and the future Duke of Dammerton knew each other as
children, but he had his duty, and then she had her life as a
scandalous artist. But fate keeps throwing them together.
It's another frustrating story from Vincy: there's too much
assumption by one about the other, too much "if only I'd said this
then". And while I'll accept Juno finding her artistic life
unsatisfying when Leo comes back into it to offer a contrast, I can't
help feeling she's something of a doormat as far as her interaction
with society is concerned. (As, for that matter, is Leo.) And their
conflict comes over as childish at times.
I liked the first of these, A Wicked Kind of Husband, but each
succeeding book has been just a bit more stuck in the standard romance
pattern (that's been done better by other writers), and therefore to
me just a bit less enjoyable.
(Still, an excellent palate-cleanser after Devices and Desires.)
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