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

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Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. She got in trouble early in life for fornication and destroyed her prospects and here she is again being even more stupid by not learning from her prior mistake. Evie wrote The League of Extraordinary Women inspired by the magical scenery of Oxford and her passion for romance, women pioneers, and all things Victorian. At 25, the offer of a stipend at Lady Margaret Hall, the first college recently allowing female students to attend, has been the miraculous, and last, opportunity to flee a life of frustration as an unpaid poor relation drudging her days away in her cousin’s house in Kent. Once freed there’s no turning back, his love for her becomes vital and reverberates in his every action and word.

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Montgomery even confesses to her that if their stations were equal, then he would have made her his wife. 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.No decent woman would talk to a stranger in the street, certainly not while brandishing pamphlets that boldly declared The Married Women’s Property Act makes a slave of every wife!

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He has the nerve to be offended when she tells him that he only thinks she’s good enough to be his whore.I just love Evie Dunsmore's writing style: I'm definitely going to read the next book in this series! It's the perfect companion and back story to this romance, as it mirrors the value Annabelle places on her independence and her reluctance to hand over any powers to a man. I enjoy villain romance, but only when the narrative acknowledges the character as a villain instead of worshiping at his altar.

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I was heartily entertained by how the two love interests meet and was looking forward to see how they would interact. He's seemed so grumpy and cold, but I loved getting to see the man behind the mask as he got to know Annabelle and opened up. and who probably makes him yearn for "more" for the first time in his privileged but somehow confining and inhibited existence. He doesn't really seem to care about Annabelle's needs or wants or how their sexual exploits would ruin her future. You might find yourself looking at this plot summary and thinking, sure sure, read that HR a thousand times.

I mean, it's got a strong feminist vibe, good message about finding yourself, and main characters that aren't horrid.