It’s clear we’ll get stories from the main female characters and I’m very excited to read how their HEA comes about. It also had a great cast of secondary characters that were once again fully realize with personalities of their own - outside the needs of the MC.

There’s some prime angst happening throughout the book as well. Their romance also felt very adult, even though it was a bit of a romp at times, it could be lighthearted at times, without being light. Their chemistry was sizzling from the moment they met and didn’t let up until the end. The Highlights Both main characters were fully realized with deep and complex emotions that went beyond their feelings for each other. The writing style of the author was very enjoying, not too flowery and not too simple. Told against the backdrop of the women suffragist movement in England, the love story between Annabelle Archer and the Duke of Montgomery, Sebastian Deveraux has hints of Pride and Prejudice.

'There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing such a man brought to his knees by a beautiful woman with nothing to her name except an inviolable sense of her own self-worth.' (NPR)Īn impressive debut novel by Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke was fresh and fun read that I couldn’t put down. Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke. But he wouldn't be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn't claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring.or could he? He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the queen's command. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause.

In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. “With her sterling debut, Evie Dunmore dives into a fresh new space in historical romance that hits all the right notes.” ( Entertainment Weekly )Ī stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.Įngland, 1879.

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