Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting . . . for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all . . .
It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée—all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay—and he does intend to marry her . . . eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love . . . with his own fiancée!
This book was really a dissapointment. My rating might have been different if I hadn't read it right after the first book in the series. Book 2 was a complete retelling of Book 1, just from a different perspective - much of the same dialog and very little new was added. ( )
Ok, this one is really hard for me to rate. I liked it a lot, but I was frustrated by it too. It's Thomas's story and I so wanted to find out what happened between him and Amelia and how he handled dealing with the resolution of Jack's situation. But most of this story was a retelling of The Lost Duke of Wyndham from Thomas's and Amelia's POVs. I found the different perspectives interesting and we were given some details that didn't appear in Jack & Grace's book. However, I'm not the most patient person in existence so I was getting very anxious to get past what I already knew was going to happen and get on with this story. I ended up putting the book down for a day. I picked it back up today and finally at page 323 (of 370) the story moved forward. I guess my final conclusion of Mr. Cavendish, I Presume is that even though I liked it, I was a bit disappointed with it.
Amelia Willoughby ha estado prometida al duque de Wyndham toda su vida. De hecho, habÃan pasado apenas seis meses de su nacimiento cuando se firmaron los papeles y se celebró el pacto que la convertirÃa en duquesa. Desde entonces, no ha hecho más que esperar a que Thomas Cavendish, el distante, glacial y arrogante duque, decida por fin tomarla por esposa. Aunque Amelia sospecha que el duque tiene otros asuntos en mente, y que sus planes matrimoniales tal vez se posterguen indefinidamente. Y justo cuando Thomas empieza a pensar que ya ha llegado la hora de asentarse y a la vez se da cuenta de la belleza de su prometida, aparece, como caÃdo del cielo, su primo, a quien todos creÃan desaparecido y que tal vez sea el verdadero Cavendish, único aspirante legÃtimo al ducado. Claro que si Thomas no es el duque, entonces Amelia, que cada dÃa se parece más a la mujer de sus sueños, no es su prometida, aunque todas las fibras de su ser opinen lo contrario.
I found this book to be very disappointing as so much of it is a verbatim repeat of the first book ‘The Lost Duke of Wyndham’. I found it tedious to reread scenes that had already played out in the previous book. ( )
Eesh, I thought the first book of the series was so fun I gave it 5 stars, so even though I wasn't as interested in these secondary characters I decided to read it as well. This book takes place during the exact same time frame as the last book (with just a bit extra at the end), only from these two alternate perspectives. There were some minor gaps in the first story, events that happened off page, or that weren't fully explained, so I guess I got a few of those answers from this book. But largely the interesting events happened in the other plot-line, so we're left with either fairly inconsequential interactions with these two (that could be left out of the first book without losing the storyline), or just repetitions of those very same conversations and events from the last book only with some inner thoughts added from these two. Then to top it off, not only did I like the last male lead more than this one, I think I in fact like this one less now than I did before reading his personal account. It was disappointing for me. ( )
Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting . . . for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all . . .
It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée—all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay—and he does intend to marry her . . . eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love . . . with his own fiancée!
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