Booklog 31/2022: Amy Rose Bennett: Up all Night with a Good Duke – The Byronic Book Club #1

[jacey]

I wasn’t all that keen on this one. There were a few moments when I considered not reading on, but I’m generally not a quitter. Artemis Jones is an outwardly respectable teacher by day and at night writes gothic romances under a pseudonym. Tired of the narrow curriculum at the finishing school she works at, she quits and heads to London, ostensibly to help out a friend who is trying to avoid the marriage mart, but with an ambition to find a sponsor to allow her to open her own school where young ladies can study the same academic subjects as young men. Dominic Winters, widowed Duke of Dartmoor has decided to find himself a new duchess, one who might understand his rebellious teenage daughter better than he does. Yes, these two meet and it’s instant attraction, of course, though neither will admit that it’s anything more than mutual lust. There’s a lot of sex in this book, which doesn’t generally worry me if it’s well written. Unfortunately Artemis is very forward for a Victorian lady. She drops her drawers at the slightest opportunity, and is quite enamoured of the Duke of Dartmoor’s ‘love truncheon.’ (I kid you not.)  Nuff said.

Comments

[cmcmck]

The lack of knowledge some writers have of how honours work can always make me giggle- Dartmoor is way too small to be a dukedom (too small even to be a barony) although there is a dukedom of Devonshire.

The author's Australian and it shows!

[jacey]

Regency Romance Writers have created more dukedoms for their characters than you can shake a stick at. Not sure why they are so obsessed with Dukes.

[sartorias]

love truncheon! I think I needed that.

Love truncheon . . . so terrible it's a joy.