![]() ![]() He left, and it’s been three years since she’s seen him. He tried to kiss her one day, and she told him that he needed to be serious. The Duke Who Didn’t is the story of Miss Chloe Fong who loves to make lists and Jeremy, the Duke of Lansing who owns the entire village where Chloe lives - a fact he has never told Chloe or anyone else in Wedgeford. That book is good - startlingly good - but it was the second book, Trial by Desire, with her depiction of a hero struggling to overcome depression that put her at the top of all my lists and she’s never faltered. That is the Milan brand, and it’s something I’ve been familiar with since I picked up Proof of Seduction on a whim in 2010. I don’t understand how some authors do this - how I can go from laughing like a maniac to reminding myself that the characters aren’t real and everything is okay. Somehow, this book manages to walk a very fine balance between being brilliantly charming, fluffy, delightful, and funny while making the reality of characters so heartbreakingly real and devastating that I found myself tearing up at several parts of this book. ![]() You might expect her first book to be a fluffy, delightful farce that distracts us all from the dumpster fire of 2020. It’s been a while since Courtney Milan’s last full-length historical novel ( After the Wedding, 2018) and as a devoted follower on Twitter, I know that the last few years have been difficult for her because people are terrible and stupid. I received this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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