My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase

TL;DR: Unfortunately rather forgettable, but a unique execution on the idea.
Source: NetGalley, thank you to the publisher!

Plot: A second chance romance with a brother’s best friend. It was very cute and at times very funny.
Characters: They were lovely. I actually quite liked our primary characters. Her brother made me very mad however.
Setting: This one moved all over the place! This might be my favorite thing about it as we travelled a bit and ended up in odd places over the course of this romance.
Romance: I love a good ‘damnit I love them’ moment, and this was full of those.

Thoughts:

My Inconvenient Duke has left me stumped. On one hand I barely remember this book and I finished it just a few days ago. On the other hand I do remember actually loving parts of this and enjoying it in the moment. In the book’s defense my personal life has been wacky so that could be part of the problem, but there was something here that didn’t elevate me out of that mess enough for it to be a true escapism moment.

The core of this is a brother’s best friend with a dash of second chance romance. Lady Alice is in a possibly dicey situation with inheritance laws and the fact that her brother is a real lazy disgrace of a duke and she’s worried he’ll tomfoolery himself to death. That would leave her in the grasp of a truly terrible cousin. So she decides to hit the marriage market, which means of course her brother’s best friend suddenly pays more attention to her and gets caught up in her own brand of tomfoolery.

Like I said, I found parts of this very funny and I enjoyed bits of it. I can even still see scenes in my head. Yet it didn’t quite click. I’m interested to read this again in the future, as this could have been a me issue. The writing was funny, it was clever, and there were a lot of PoVs to help really flesh out the world. I just didn’t hook in completely.

If you like Loretta Chase I know you’ll enjoy this and if you’re a fan of historical romances I’d highly recommend it. I will definitely revisit it myself to try for a better experience.