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Book Review of An Affair Before Christmas (Desperate Duchesses, Bk 2)

An Affair Before Christmas (Desperate Duchesses, Bk 2)
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Helpful Score: 3


Georgian period. The number of story lines left me waiting for characters' personalities to develop even more than half way through the book. About three thirds of the way through, I found myself fighting whether to give up, or keep reading just to see if there was more to it.

It did develop a bit more from that point and the characters were likeable, but I was a bit disappointed for an Eloisa James book.

The ending was positive so I was appeased, but the overlying theme of the way marriage was looked at disappointed me. I read to see things that aren't like every day - happily ever after marriages, love at first sight, insurmountable obstacles defeated in a blink of an eye, and most of all an attraction between the h/h that charges the air I'm in.