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#1 ~ Lady Derring Takes a Lover: My Review

Reading Order: The Palace of Rogues series There is going to be a third book but I’m not eagerly awaiting it like I was when I finished the first book. I wish I could’ve loved this more, but I think if you’re a fan of JAL’s style of writing, you’d have less problems with it than I did. It took a while for me to become interested in the story, which wasn’t all that exciting given Lucien’s revenge plot. I struggled with this book the same way I struggled with the first – Julie Anne Long’s writing/storytelling is just too wordy and slow for my taste. I liked Angelique and Lucien, but I never really fell in love with them or their story. Both have shameful pasts they want to move on from, and they help and lean on each other to do so.

In this way, Lucien’s character is similar to Angelique’s. This leads to Lucien acting out and stirring scandal and gossip for the Duke’s family. After his father married, he turned to ignore Lucien and his mother, focusing on his new wife instead. Lucien is the bastard son of a Duke and a black mark on the family. I’d say if you haven’t read the first book, you can go into this one as a standalone. They bond together and run an inn, which is the main setting for this follow-up novel. I was initially excited to read Angel in a Devil’s Arms when I realized the heroine would be a character I met in the first Palace of Rogues book, Angelique! She was the mistress of the heroine’s late husband in Lady Derringer Takes a Lover and I loved the friendship development between the two ladies in that book. because his true birthright, he now knows, is guardian of Angelique Breedlove’s heart. Now his whole life depends on proving his love to a woman who doesn’t believe in it. And the passion-explosive, consuming-drives Lucien to his knees. One scorching kiss drives home the danger.īut in the space between them springs a trust that feels anything but safe. and one wild night in Angelique Breedlove’s bed.Īngelique recognizes heartbreak when the enigmatic Lord Bolt walks into The Grand Palace on the Thames, and not even his devastating charm can tempt her to risk her own ever again. And what he wants is vengeance for his stolen birthright. How else could the Duke of Brexford’s notorious bastard son return from the dead? The brutal decade since Lucien Durand, Lord Bolt, allegedly drowned in the Thames forged him into a man who always gets what-and who-he wants. From USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long comes the second book in an exciting new historical romance series, the first since her beloved Pennyroyal Green series.

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