No Other Duke Will Do by Grace Burrowes

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Actually, 4.5 stars rounded up to 5
Series: Windham Brides #3
Publication Date: 11/7/17

Delightfully, refreshingly, deliciously different! I loved this book.

Both lead characters are very nice, very loving, very honorable – just very, very good people. They don’t have any deep, dark secrets. Both are honest and up-front about their issues and don’t try to hide those from the other. They actually talk with each other and even more miraculously – they listen to each other. They both have warm, loving, supportive and caring families. Now, I know some of you are groaning and saying – How boring – but it isn’t. It is a very good story.

I think the book is about actually ‘seeing’ another person. We interact with people every day – our boss, our friend, the clerk at the store, etc. but do we actually see them or just the title and what we ‘think’ they are. One of my favorite characters in this book is Griffin, Julian’s younger brother. In most stories, Griffin would be hidden away and kept secret, but Julian doesn’t do that. Julian and Griffin have a really special relationship that says so much about the person that Julian is.

We also have the required villain of the story. He’s out to ruin Julian because Julian is preventing him from getting something that he wants. We even watch the villain grow and evolve – actually to the point where I think he might just be the hero in the next, and final, book in the series. That book should be out in March of next year.

The one thing I missed was seeing more of the Windham cousins. They are always entertaining and I miss them. There really wasn’t much room for them in the story since it took place at a house party, but it would still have been nice to have a visit. Maybe they could have at least shown up at the auction or something.

I have read and liked all of the books in this series. You can see my reviews for them here:

The Trouble With Dukes
Too Scot To Handle

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Too Scot to Handle by Grace Burrowes

Barbara’s rating: 4 of 5 stars

Series: Windham Brides #2
Publication Date: 7/25/17

I absolutely LOVE Grace Burrowes’ world. Yes, she has basically populated her own world. She has several series with dozens of books and in any given book, you might encounter characters from any of her other books or series. If you think about it, this just makes sense. After all, they are all existing in the same basic time and place so why wouldn’t they know or know of each other. I really like that she does that.

The Windham’s all believe in marriage for love, and so far most of them have found it. This Windham series features the nieces of the Duke and Duchess of Moreland. So far, one of them has found love and marriage and this book features the next one to do so – Anwen Windham.

Anwen is the youngest of four sisters and she is really feeling constrained. Because she was ill and almost died when she was young, everyone treats her as if she is an invalid. She isn’t. She’s actually healthier than most of the others. But, in deference to them, she presents a false front to the world. Meek and mild isn’t anywhere close to an accurate description of Anwen, but it is the face she displays. At least, it is the face she displays to everyone except Colin MacHugh. With him, she feels comfortable and free enough to express her true self.

Lord Colin MacHugh is a very uncomfortable Scot thrown into the midst of the ton. He didn’t ask to be among the aristocracy and really doesn’t want to be there. He’d prefer to be home in Scotland tending to his distilleries. However, his brother is a newly minted Duke and as the heir presumptive Colin must make his bows to society. He’d have an easier time of it if his brother were there, but he has married Anwen’s sister and they are off on their honeymoon.

I really like the way the love and trust grew between Anwen and Colin. It only moved forward and grew with no backward movement or distrust when events occurred that could have made one distrust the other. The immediate response was ‘I know he/she didn’t do that’ and there was no convincing them otherwise. That isn’t something you see very often in a romance book.

I won’t give you a rehash of the story because that would spoil your read. You can see the gist of the story by reading the book blurb. Just know that Colin was the target of a very nasty and cunning individual who was supposed to be his friend.

I’m giving it 4-stars because I just didn’t like what happened with the villains of the story. Yes, I understand this is the Regency period and that the aristocracy is immune to most prosecutions and that scandal is to be avoided at all costs. However, Colin, Anwen, and the Windhams are some pretty shrewd, crafty and inventive folks themselves and I think they could have come up with something better as punishment.

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