Never Met a Duke Like You
RATING: 5 Stars (★★★★★)
SPICE LEVEL: 4 Spicy Peppers (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️)
DISCLOSURE: I received a free e-arc and paperback from Forever Publishing in exchange for my honest review and upcoming hosting duties. Join author Amalie Howard and the C.L.I.T.S Book Club on January 7.
Author: Amalie Howard
Publisher: Forever Publishing
Is it on KU?: Nope
TW: Stigma/Shame about Mental Illness & Former Death of Parent.
Tropes:
↠ Enemies to Lovers
↠ Forced Proximity
↠ Matchmaker Finds Love
↠ Friends to Lovers
Never Met a Duke Like You has excellent banter, ADHD rep, childhood friends to lovers, second chance romance, forced proximity, and more to make up this delightful Emma/Clueless-inspired tale.
I was delighted with Vesper's matchmaking schemes. Vesper and Aspen's chemistry jumped off the page, and their banter made me smile while reading.
This book makes me want to read Always Be My Duchess again to be introduced to Vesper again. She didn't seem particularly memorable when reading Book 1, so I was surprised and happy to see her character shine through in her story.
This representation of ADHD in Historical Romance almost made me cry. As Amalie Howard points out in the book, while ADHD would not have been diagnosed as such during the period, neurodivergent individuals existed and had even more stigma and limited resources.
This book could be a great introduction if this is your first time reading Historical Romance. I loved this book so much that Never Met a Duke Like You will be the first Historical book featured in my book club @clitsbookclub.
Clueless meets Bridgerton in this spicy opposites-attract Regency romance from “a must-read author” (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
Lady Vesper Lyndhurst is beautiful, clever, and popular. Afforded every luxury as a duke’s daughter, she fills her days with friends, intrigues, and a self-professed knack for matchmaking. She may have sworn off love for herself, but she is rather excellent at arranging it.
Faced with an insolvent estate, the Duke of Greydon has no choice but to return to England in a final attempt to revive his family’s fortunes. He’s been gone for years, happy to have escaped his mother and the petty circles of the ton. To his dismay, not much has changed, including the beautiful and vexing heiress next door.
But when an accident of fate traps the friends-turned-enemies in an attic together, the explosive attraction between them becomes impossible to ignore and even harder to resist. They are total opposites and their lives don’t align in the slightest, but fate, the ultimate matchmaker, appears to have other plans.
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