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Chargement... The Duke of Olympia Meets His Matchpar Juliana Gray
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A wonderful feel good story. So much fun to have an older heroine and hero and their antics aboard ship. ( ) This takes place in 1893 on an ocean liner travelling between New York and England. I liked the idea here much better than the execution. I liked Penelope, a fifty-year-old widow dependent upon her position as a governess, and I enjoyed her interactions with the older Duke of Olympia. But I found some of the spy plot rushed or confusing, and the resolution for both the romance and the mystery was almost-but-not-entirely satisfying. Maybe this would read differently if one had previously encountered the Duke in Gray’s other novels? I don’t know. Given the era and the circumstances, I didn’t have an issue with the large age gap between Penelope and the Duke, but if he had been more like her age, it would have been far less ridiculous for the Morrisons to be hoping he’d marry a twenty-year-old. I found this book a bit confusing, as to what type of book that it actually wanted to become. I admired Mrs. Schulyer, but was a bit uninterested by the others involved. Everyone seemed a shade less then real, and the story was a bit stilted. The ending was not completely satisfactory. As this is the first book I have read featuring the Duke of Olympia, I had no prior knowledge of his character and a complete absence of fondness. It turns out that this is the first of a new series featuring the Duke, which should please those who have been fans of him from previous books. **eARC Netgalley** aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:From Juliana Gray comes an all-new historical romance novella featuring the famous??and often infamous??Duke of Olympia. Aboard the luxuriously appointed SS Majestic, the duke is on a mission to retrieve a most important portfolio of papers and thwart a known anarchist. As the ship steams across the Atlantic, the duke??s search for the notorious master of disguise forces him into close quarters with an American heiress and her widowed governess, Mrs. Penelope Schuyler. While Olympia has known his fair share of intriguing women, Mrs. Schuyler seems to have a way of challenging his expectations at every turn. But as their clandestine meetings lead them down an unexpected path, the duke must determine if Penelope is a woman to be trusted... Includes an exclusive preview of Juliana Gray??s latest novel, An Extraordinary Pursuit Praise for the novels of Juliana Gray ??Exquisite characterizations, clever dialogue, and addictive prose.???Library Journal (starred review) ??Juliana Gray has a stupendously lyrical voice.???Meredith Duran, New York Times bestselling author ??Juliana Gray is on my autobuy list.???Elizabeth Hoyt, New York Times bestselling author ??A literary force to be reckoned wi Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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