Bringing Down the Duke: 1 (League of Extraordinary Women)

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I expected this to be a story about a strong willed and driven woman who has a hate to love journey. It's whilst fulfilling this duty, that she first meets the wealthy and powerful Duke of Montgomery (Sebastian), a cold and brooding man, with links to the Tory party and to Queen Victoria.

Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women)

A deliciously romantic story firmly grounded in the late Victorian setting, but posing some timeless questions about love against duty and honour or about reputation and safety against freedom and passion, questions that transcend the historical declinations and contingencies while making the tangible inner struggles of the characters deeply resonate. I've said nothing about the plot, but I don't need to: you've read it all before, and as might be discerned from the hopelessly backwards language above, it all boils down to a Manly Male who knows better than the silly Feminine Female. And I'm ecstatic to see that not only are we guaranteed more from this debut author, but we're getting more from this series and set of characters.If you are a voracious historical romance reader like me, then you have most likely read a plethora of historical romance novels where the Duke hero refuses to marry the heroine because she is below him in station. In between all of his nonsense, there's also a great amount of ugly gender essentialist language in here about the heroine's Feminine Softness and the hero's Masculine Hardness. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for.

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Annabelle, a commoner, is a woman before her time and when the National Suffrage Women’s movement offers her a scholarship at Oxford’s first women’s college, she jumps at the chance. Inspiring in them even just a kernel of that same passion for evolving, improving, changing that has led and sustained her during these difficult first months in Oxford. Maybe I lost track of the timeline, but it seems like Annabelle and the Duke ~fell in love~ in like a week? I enjoy villain romance, but only when the narrative acknowledges the character as a villain instead of worshiping at his altar. I appreciate the attempt to craft a complex, compelling, and not entirely likable male character, but this ain't it.Strong women and the dashing men who value them for their mind and their wit will do it for me every time. Did Annabelle and the Duke have one single moment together where they did something other than slaver over one another? and Annabelle Archer, a beautiful but 'over educated' 25 year old becomes one of the first women to study at Oxford University.

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I think this book needed a more headstrong heroine because Annabelle was too much of a pushover for someone as entitled as Montgomery. His eyes were striking, icy clear and bright with intelligence, a cool, penetrating intelligence that would cut right to the core of things, to assess, dismiss, eviscerate. Overall, Bringing Down the Duke surprised me with its heart, and I look forward to the next in the series. FYI, this is not a book that takes itself seriously—but I think you’ll agree the result is serious fun.Scotland and the great outdoors have a special place in her heart, so she is frequently found climbing the Highlands and hunting for woolly tartan blankets. By the 50% mark, there were a few things bugging me, but I figured they were small enough that I could ignore them, even if it meant slashing off a star from the overall rating. The suffragist aspect quickly becomes background noise as the heroine, Annabelle, debates the pros and cons of becoming the mistress of the oh-so-powerful Duke of Montgomery. If Bringing Down the Duke had more interesting and likable protagonists with solid character development and if the feminist aspect was inclusive, then this book could have easily been a winner for me. BRINGING DOWN THE DUKE is compulsively readable and a delight to devour; I finished this in a shockingly small handful of hours which, considering my slumpy month, is a miracle.