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    Mad About the Duke

    By Elizabeth Boyle

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    “Mad about the Duke is a rollicking good romp, filled with mischief and mayhem and delicious characters.”
    —Sabrina Jeffries

    Rita Award-winner, USA Today and New York Times bestseller Elizabeth Boyle delights once more with Mad About the Duke, the second book in her wonderfully creative, wickedly fun Widows of Standon historical romance series. It is a delectable tale of an intrepid young woman who employs an incognito duke—whom she mistakenly believes to be a common solicitor—in her quest to land a titled second husband. Featuring characters from her popular Bachelor Chronicles, Boyle proves once again to be one of today’s most imaginative writers of romantic fiction. Fans of the sensual, fast-paced historical romance of Lisa Kleypas and Christina Dodd will, likewise, be Mad About the Duke.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 28, 2010
    ISBN9780062013989
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    Elizabeth Boyle

    Elizabeth Boyle has always loved romance and now lives it each and every day by writing adventurous and passionate stories that readers from all around the world have described as “page-turners.” Since her first book was published, she’s seen her romances become New York Times and USA Today bestsellers and has won the RWA RITA® and the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. She resides in Seattle with her family, her garden, and her always-growing collection of yarn. Readers can visit her at www.elizabethboyle.com, or follow her own adventures on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.  www.avonromance.com www.facebook.com/avonromance 

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    • 4/5
      I really liked this book, up until the end. I wanted something more from the ending. I wanted a sense of closure from the fall out of the mistaken identity.
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable story of mistaken identity, but this does not work well as a standalone. I had read none of the preceding novels, so spent the first 70 pages or so in complete confusion.

      I liked it that the hero/heroine were older than the typical HR.

    • 4/5
      This is the 7th book in the Bachelor Chronicles series by Ms. Boyle. Please be aware that this review might contain spoilers. Sorry. :-) Before reading this book I had not read any of the previous book's in the series. While this can be read as a stand alone book. It will help the reader to read the previous book in the series to understand what is happening. While Elinor is trying to get married to save her sister from a disastrous marriage set up by her step-father. She falls in love with who she thinks is a solicitor. She does not know that she is talking and asking a Duke to help her find a husband. While Mr. St. Maur does not admit to Elinor that he is a Duke he allows Elinor to think he is a solicitor that has came to help her fellow housemate Lucy, Lady Standon. While there are 3 Lady Standon's living in the house on Brook Street in London. Elinor is just one of the Lady Standon's that is trying to get married. It is hard to follow the book fully unless the reader has read the previous books in the series it is still a good stand-alone read.

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    • 3/5
      I'm all for a fun romp but this novel bordered on silly. The mistaken identity premise is a fiction staple but by the middle of the book ALL of the heroines friends/roommates know the identity of the duke but NONE reveal who he is. It stretches credulity to the breaking point. The characters are fun and the conversation witty enough to keep me reading till the end though.