The Duke Undoing Six Rogues and Their Ladies Book 1 edition by GG Vandagriff Romance eBooks
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Meet the Duke of Ruisdell, who has just returned wounded from the Napoleonic wars. He is weary, cynical, and very bored. Known as the worst rake in England, he finds he has no interest in upholding that distinction, when his friend, the Marquis of Somerset, proposes a bet "Five thousand guineas says that seducing Miss Elise Edwards will cure your ennui." Because his friend has just lost a packet to him, he agrees that the bet be posted in White's famous Betting Book.
Thus begins a train of unstoppable events--dangerous, humorous, devilish, and amorous--that carry his life along at such a pace that the duke soon knows not whether he is on his head or his heels. And then there is that bet . . .
The Duke Undoing Six Rogues and Their Ladies Book 1 edition by GG Vandagriff Romance eBooks
The Duke's Undoing had a lot of potential but failed woefully short!! G.G. Vandagriff the author needs to study history about Dukes before tempting to write one. The Duke of Ruisdell was so badly written. I felt like I was in some kind of joke. Dukes would never have taken a Hackney, public transportation, No one would ever dare not challenge a Duke weather he was telling the truth or not. No one arrested a Duke or attempted to arrest one no matter what they were accused of. A lowly commoner had more clot then The Duke of Ruisdell and he was also a war hero!! PLEASE Don't write about Dukes or the upper titles of the ton if you don't know the power they held . This entire cast of characters was so out of the realm of possibility for the era. This story really frustrated me but I did finish it.The H/H have a bazaar none sexual relationship not eve a kiss until the last few pages. I don't need a lot of sex in my story but some kind of sensual intimacy is necessary. This I guess is what some reviewers refer to as a Clean Read. Well you can keep your Clean Read. This was just awful!!
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The novel could have been cut in half for starters. There was so much "attempted fluff"! It fell flat. Also, it was as if the story had continuous beginning, middle and final parts only to repeat. I just finished The Thirteenth Tale and this cannot be considered a novel if it were compared. I knew it was "fluff" when I downloaded it. I just expected it to be frustration-free fluff!!!
Great potential but ultimately unsatisfying. The ending was abrupt, not realistic, and in desperate need of a few more chapters or detailed epilogue to tie up the many, many loose ends. A Duke welded great power in Regency England. Few were ever challenged or ignored, especially by the Ton or House of Lords, so a planned flight to the Continent to escape seemed so wrong, especially when the Viscount behaved so dishonorably--in front of witnesses. So then what? Did the H&h spend the rest of their lives on the continent? Was the viscount's duplicitous character and behavior ever revealed? Did the Duke's greedy, unfilial brother receive his most-deserved removal? And, significantly, why was the heir to the dukedom (regardless of military rank) fighting in the wars and a second brother allowed to stay home? Again, not realistic. Hoping for an updated, expanded story, either a book revision or a follow-up novella, that resolves the plot holes, anachronisms, and loose ends.
The first chapter started out so well and then the story just dragged. I quit at chapter sixteen. The dialogue is stilted, and the characters are rather boring.
The heroine has been engaged three times. The first was her 'true' love. He was killed in the war. The second fellow turned out to be mentally ill. The third man appeared -- to the heroine -- to be in love with someone else.
The hero had been in the war with the first man, and they had been great friends. The death of the man had been a blow to the hero, and he had been the person to write to the heroine of the death. He had heard all the stories about the childhood his friend had shared the heroine, so he knew a lot about her.
The heroine went from cool and proper to a bit of something like a tease. She asked the hero to kiss the nape of her neck and then gets insulted when he kisses her throat and accuses him of attempting to take liberties. She wasn't all that persuasive about getting the third former fiance to keep his hands off of her.
The mentally ill former fiance was constantly making trouble -- issuing challenges to duels and abducting the heroine.
The only character I remotely liked was the hero, and who knows -- I may have disliked him by the end.
I don't recommend this one.
Boy, oh boy - romance novels are never going to get a better reputation with this kind of book getting good reviews! I can't, for the life of me, understand the other reviewers' praise of this novel. The main problem is the writing - it is horribly stilted. There is no way to lose oneself, as the lurching prose jerks you about. Here's a sample [the hero, Ruisdell has entered an opera box, and just been properly introduced to the heroine, whom he observed earlier in the day]
"He gave what even he knew was a grim smile. Before he could even ask her what had changed between this afternoon and this evening that she would venture out, dressed so divinely with roses nestled in her black tresses, the curtain to the box was thrown aside. A very handsome man even taller than [Ruisdell] entered, his hair a profusion of blond pomaded curls, his classically featured face set in stern, stiff lines. "You depraved cur!" he virtually spat at Ruisdell. Who the devil was this? He had no desire to disabuse the man of his epithet. His conscience, silent for years, told him that it might even be true. But he had experience dealing with infuriated men, though they were usually husbands. Ruisdell merely raised one eyebrow, which was enough to quell most men. But this man turned to Elise, who had gone suddenly white. Her hands were now fists. Ruisdell moved a bit closed, feeling an unusual prompting to protect. "Robert, please leave at once. You have no right to be here!" "Do you know who this man is?" the man called Robert answered..."You are my finance, and you have no business slurring my family name by entertaining this disgusting article openly here at the opera where everyone is watching."
It's a stupefying combination of providing too much information and not enough. All the way through I experienced the terrible combination of confusion and boredom. I wouldn't have read the whole thing at all, but I make it a rule to always the entire book before I leave a negative review - Ugh! The burdens of integrity! ;)
But truly - spare yourself from this awful mess. There are many wonderful, well-written Regency romances. You don't need to suffer through "The Duke's Undoing".
The Duke's Undoing had a lot of potential but failed woefully short!! G.G. Vandagriff the author needs to study history about Dukes before tempting to write one. The Duke of Ruisdell was so badly written. I felt like I was in some kind of joke. Dukes would never have taken a Hackney, public transportation, No one would ever dare not challenge a Duke weather he was telling the truth or not. No one arrested a Duke or attempted to arrest one no matter what they were accused of. A lowly commoner had more clot then The Duke of Ruisdell and he was also a war hero!! PLEASE Don't write about Dukes or the upper titles of the ton if you don't know the power they held . This entire cast of characters was so out of the realm of possibility for the era. This story really frustrated me but I did finish it.
The H/H have a bazaar none sexual relationship not eve a kiss until the last few pages. I don't need a lot of sex in my story but some kind of sensual intimacy is necessary. This I guess is what some reviewers refer to as a Clean Read. Well you can keep your Clean Read. This was just awful!!
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