The Black Duke's Prize

Let's pretend the last 25% never happened The way this book captured me at the beginning! Enemies to lovers is a trope that has sadly been through rough times. ↠ Either they have a tiny fight and then kiss and live happily ever after ↠ Or it's been darkened to the point the MCs try to murder each othe......more

The characters' actions seemed rather unnatural at times, as if they acted a certain way because the author felt they should for the sake of the story, but didn't feel organic to the situation/character. They overreacted to situations that barely seemed to warrant mild irritation, then responded to......more

Not bad, even though the heroine is a shrew.......more

Recommended to me by my Mother ( She doesn't listen to audiobooks ). When she recommends a book to me, I always like to see if I can obtain it as an audiobook. Luckily, this title was available for me to borrow thru our library's participation in the Hoopla platform. The audiobook was very enjoyable......more

This was a lot of fun. The banter between Katherine and Nicholas was good and the plot worked well for me. The pacing was a little off in parts – the ending was very protracted and I didn’t think it needed to include some plot points – but overall I liked it a lot. The chemistry between them worked......more