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

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Before I even start my review of this book, I think it would be remiss of me not to talk about something that’s been on my mind – something that other reviewers seem to have completely missed. At the same time, Sebastian is finding Annabelle’s green eyes irresistible; however, she’s a commoner and not fit to be his duchess. Marriage to Annabelle, a country girl of no consequence would cause a scandal of earth shattering proportions that Montgomery cannot afford. Yet, here she is, in front of Westminster on a chilly October day, her first suffrage meeting, a cold mist dulling Parliament Square. A protagonists of Britain’s politics and at only 35 one of the most powerful peers of the realm, with an unruly younger brother to manage, a scandalous divorce in his near past, the ancestral ducal seat to regain and now the Queen appointing him chief strategic advisor for the Tory party in the upcoming elections his life is already complicated as it is and, though not opposed on principle, adding support to women’s rights campaign on his agenda is out of the question.

Bringing Down the Duke (A League of Extraordinary Women)

With her sterling debut, Evie Dunmore dives into a fresh new space in historical romance that hits all the right notes. And I'm ecstatic to see that not only are we guaranteed more from this debut author, but we're getting more from this series and set of characters.

There it was, the fire she had sensed behind the ice, smoldering at a thousand degrees hotter than leaping flames. Inspiring in them even just a kernel of that same passion for evolving, improving, changing that has led and sustained her during these difficult first months in Oxford. com, Jane Austen Made Me Do It, and director of Austenprose PR, Laurel Ann is a champion of historical books, period drama, and Jane Austen.

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By the 50% mark, there were a few things bugging me, but I figured they were small enough that I could ignore them, even if it meant slashing off a star from the overall rating. The dignified piece of furniture did nothing for her cousin: age-worn on four carved lion paws, it would have bolstered the authority of any man throning behind it, but Gilbert was still fluffed up like a startled chicken. The sex scenes were incredibly frustrating because they insisted on constantly reminding us that the Duke was a Macho Manly Man and Annabelle was a Fragile Feminine "Female" (WHY are the women in this book referred to as "females" as though they're farm animals? Did Annabelle and the Duke have one single moment together where they did something other than slaver over one another?This is a time where the upper classes in England used marriage as a tool to secure alliances that enriched them further in the acquisition of more land, money and power.

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I never read romance books because I assumed they were too cheesy and poorly written to be considered worthy of my time. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. It is 1879, and the over educated, beautiful but destitute 25 year old Annabelle, inveigles her way to study amongst the first group of women at Oxford University after gaining a modest scholarship, for which she must support the radical political suffragettes led by Lady Lucie Tedbury, and their campaign to recruit powerful men of influence to champion their cause.You might find yourself looking at this plot summary and thinking, sure sure, read that HR a thousand times. It actually reminded me a lot of Pride and Prejudice with its slow building romance, which started off as hostility! Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke.

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When it comes to women’s rights from an intersectional perspective, this book does an okay job depicting the intersection of class and gender through its protagonist, Annabelle. How many people thought that the female brain was feeble, and that intelligent women were unattractive! There were also a lot of really weird references to the characters' "primal" attraction to one another. He doesn't really seem to care about Annabelle's needs or wants or how their sexual exploits would ruin her future.

The specifics of the setting, that this takes place during the opening of the first women's college, and focuses mostly on women's rights, feminism, and the injustice of the sexes, I mean.

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