My content warnings:
- Hospital scenes/hospitalization
- Cheating
My biases:
- Can’t stand overt, blatant, and obvious rudeness
Between The Devil And Desire by Lorraine Heath
#2 in Scoundrels of St. James
Read: September 25, 2021
Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
- Slow burn
- ❤️ family dynamics
- Series about a found family!
Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗🤗
- Not abruptly in your face, but fun 🤗
- Contains darkness
Heat 🔥 : 🔥🔥🔥
- Slow burn
- Not too long
Intensity (1 to 100): 50%
- Slow burn
- Gets dark at the end
Predictable? (Predictability): N
Content warnings: Death of a loved one 🥰, Selling children, poverty
Prevalent Tropes: Widow romance, Guardianship, Ward
Tropes I like! 😍
- Caregiving/sick bed
- Fake Dating
- Friends to lovers
- Found family
- Single parent
- Bodyguard
- Marriage of convenience
- Disability rep
- Forced proximity
- Wallflower
- Bookish heroine
- Only 1 bed 🛏
- Teaching 🏫
- Roadtrip Romance
How it’s used…
Olivia, the duchess of Lovington, is infuriated 😤 to learn guardianship of her son Henry was granted to Jack Dodger 😱
Smutty times 😋:
- 18: Seduce Jack
- 19: Train 🚂 trip 😏
- 23: Post-wedding
3-word Summary: Guardianship connections forged
Representation: Poor
POV: 3rd person triplet (Jack, Olivia, Henry)
Thoughts 💭:
- Marital rights 🤔
- Found families ❤️
Movie/show rec: 🤷🏽♀️
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