My Darling Duke Book Review

My content warnings:

• Hospital scenes/hospitalization
• Cheating 

My biases:

• Can’t stand overt, blatant, and obvious rudeness

My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid

#1?in Sinful Wallflowers

Read: January 2022

Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

• Badass heroine 🦸‍♀️ 👍🏽

Heat 🔥 : 🔥🔥🔥🔥

• More action towards the end
• “Impotent”

Intensity (1 to 100): 70%

Predictable? (Predictability): Y

Content warnings: Impotence

Prevalent Tropes: Friends to lovers

Tropes I like! 😍

1. Caregiving/sick bed
2. Fake Dating 
3. Friends to lovers
4. Found family
5. Single parent
6. Bodyguard 
7. Marriage of convenience 
8. Disability rep
9. Forced proximity 
10. Wallflower 
11. Bookish heroine
12. Only 1 bed 🛏
13. Teaching 🏫 
14. Roadtrip Romance 

How it’s used…

Alex looking for a friend

Smutty times 😋: To do…

3-word Summary: Lies become truth

Representation: Disability

POV: Dual 3rd person

Thoughts 💭:

• Impotence

Movie/show rec: 🤷🏽‍♀️