The Day of the Duchess

As always, I like this book, or I wouldn t have let you all read it BUTat said, I will tell you that this book put me through the ringer I don t think I ve ever written two characters who better deserved a happily ever after each other I don t want to spoil what s to come, but here are the answers to some of the questions people have been asking about The Day of the Duchess 1 YES, you will see of the Dangerous Daughters Talbot Sisters Soiled Ss Lots of them You will see them in carriages and a [...]

ARC provided by Edelweiss and Publisher for an honest review Rating 4.5 S P O I L E R S This is Sarah MacLean s best work I think And I would have given it a five star but a couple small irritations and issues that held me back for a full five star rating But with all that being said, the emotional and angst part of this story is off the charts and I loved it Also, Sarah MacLean so redeems Malcom and I didn t think he was redeemable Be prepared for a heart wrenching beautiful love story Have lot [...]

Warning spoilers ahead and sorry wall of text inc.Seraphina Bevingstoke, Duchess of Haven, makes a dramatic entrance in Parliament, petitioning for divorce Two years and seven months after vanishing from her husband s country estate after being told she s barren after a stillborn child after witnessing her husband s infidelity after being subjected to his disdain for trapping him into marriage after actually trapping him into marriage after falling in love with him almost instantly This is Sera [...]

Tell me, Seraphina If there were no one no sisters or god or goddess to protect, no American, no aristocracy to watch and judge What would you do if I pursued you The Day of the Duchess is one of those books that makes me go, This is the reason why I read romance Does it have a healthy dose of angst Yes, it does It also has one of the best grovels I ve read in a while The satisfying ending was worth every single heartache I, and the characters, went through And every emotional moment in this boo [...]

4.5 STARS Review Vanilla Spice BooksIt s been a while since I read my last Historical Romance and I really missed it The gallantry of men, the noble ladies, the unconventional heroines, the beautiful words and poetry in the story telling, they all contribute to my love for this genre Sarah Maclean has always been one of my favorites so it was a pleasure and an honor to receive an advanced reading copy for The Day of The Duchess Malcom Marcus Bevinstoke, Duke of Haven, feels the weight of every s [...]

ETA 7 3 17 So I just spent 2 hours stuck in traffic, in hot ass weather, going in circles and walking up down a mall AND a strip mall across the street getting lost twice to get a dang copy of this because the store closest to me was out of stock All the energy I put into finding a copy of this better be worth it cause I m officially annoyed and feeling a little stupid right now Alright MacLean, I m giving you one try Since Seraphina is the only Talbot sister I liked and the situation with her [...]

Originally posted at Booklovers For LifeAAHHHHH I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK This might honestly be my new all time favorite book of Sarah MacLean s and if you know me, you know how much I loved One Good Earl Deserves a Lover The angst had me in TEARS I LOVED it THIS is exactly the kind of book I want when I read a second chance romance aka has a groveling hero who is unrelenting in his pursuit to win back the one and only love of his life As soon as I finished The Day of the Duchess, I knew i [...]

I varied on this between being okay and since the writing was coherent, being almost likable.Unfortunately I just couldn t get to the likable part This is the fourth or fifth SMac I have tried and she is just not my cuppa.Part of it is me, I was reading Historical s back in the 70 s You know those ones I mean, and for all the drama, slaps, beatings and rapes, one thing those writers took to heart was time period accuracy The h s may have been shared, abused, passed around like parcels or cheated [...]

I usually don t hear music when I read a book, but while reading this oneYou all remember this one I really love Ms MacLean books usually not so much this series The premises for an excellent story are all here we have the weird sisters Soiled S s, Dangerous Daughters, etc which names all start with S Seraphina, Sophie, Secily we have the cheating husband, the scorned wife, the lost child, the matchmaking mamas Still I didn t find the mix all that exiting I liked better the secondary characters [...]

Such a lovely, poignant, passionate, romantic, beautiful, second chance love story

I ve given this a B at AAR, so 4.5 stars.Sarah MacLean concludes her Scandal and Scoundrels series with The Day of the Duchess, the book many of us have been eagerly anticipating since Sophie, youngest of the scandalous Talbot sisters, pushed Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven, into an ornamental fish pond in book one, The Rogue Not Taken Sophie s actions were prompted when she caught her eldest sister s husband in flagrante delicto with another woman in front of half the ton including the pregn [...]

Oh, dear I saw this at the library and I thought I should break my historical romance drought with something juicy and angsty and controversial Let s put it this way it did not rain in my historical romance desert This was the strangest book in tone and in world building The characters talked and thought like 2017 They acted like a horny insta lust couple who had been steeped in a modern sex positive philosophy That glibness contrasted greatly with the very real danger of ruin and a dangerous pr [...]

THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING I cried twice in the opening thirty pages The HEA is so incredibly hard fought and powerful I don t think there s ever been a reunion romance better written than this I started the book hating Haven so much, and by the end I adored him I immediately started re reading it, I loved TDOTD that much.

SPOILER FREE Also a mess but then again when are they not when I have too many feelings.I LOVEEEDD THIS SO MUCH What s it about Seraphina, Duchess of Haven left her husband Malcom the Duke of Haven two years, seven months ago She left without a trace and Malcom has spent this time searching for her, hating himself Sera after losing the man she loved and then the only thing that connected him to her left her family and went to America While Malcom spent the last years going over the past again an [...]

Tfw you spent the whole night crying but you re happy about it This was such a tortured premise Every page hurt, but the story was addictively cathartic and raw and beautiful I loved Malcolm and Seraphina s journey One of my favorite things about MacLean s novels is how she always ties in a meta myth In A ROGUE BY ANY OTHER NAME it was pseudo Hades and Persephone, and in THE DAY OF THE DUCHESS, we get a clever Orion and Merope spin I have the worst book hangover.

Oh My Heart I got this book because a friend recommended it I read it without reading the first two books of the series so I was going into it without any knowledge whatsoever about Sera and Mal And boy was I blindsided This book made me cry so much that I had a headache, I m probably a little dehydrated too I will definitely pick up the rest of the series, it made that big of an impression to me Shoutout to Alexis for recommending this book, thanks doll

I couldn t fathom how Sarah MacLean was going to redeem her most unredeemable hero In fact, he may be the most unredeemable Regency hero I ve ever read I meane guy publicly cheated on his wife He humiliated her and her family He s the scum of the ton.right In the other Scandal and Scoundrel stories, I hated Malcolm Bevingstoke, Duke of Haven When I saw that this story was to be his and Seraphina swell, I was skeptical Romances had to end in a happily ever after, and how could it be possible that [...]

The marriage in trouble trope is my catnip I relish and salivate at the angst, the pain, the denial, the DRAMA, the grovel, the forgiveness and the hard fought road to their HEA, then throw in some cheating and I m all over it like a rash Here the cheating was so lightly and briefly glossed over I blinked and missed it I didn t get any of the angst, drama, gut wrenching knots in my stomach feels that I d hoped for.Edited 13 7 17 I went and read the prologue of the first book and got the how he c [...]

I admit, I did not want to like this one, let alone love it But I did, I loved it Haven and Sera s story is heart achingly complicated and only a master storyteller like Sarah MacLean could pull their redemption romance off I laughed, I cried, I swooned And then I cried some because that Epilogue is perfection.

Nobody can make me bawl though the last two chapters of a romance like Sarah MacLean Which is what I proceeded to do because holy cats does it get heartfelt Romances where one of the couple has to overcome cheating are always hard for me and, while I would have appreciated a cricket ball to the goolies for Haven, there are massive amounts of groveling, self flagellation, and relationship rebuilding to make this one another fantastic entry in SM s body of work And now, if you ll excuse me, I have [...]

5 StarsSera and Malcom s story is powerfully put into words, there is so much beauty in Sarah MacLean s writing It s the kind of writing that transports you to another time and place and makes you feel all the feelings This author captured my attention with clever, witty dialogue and amazing characterization She engaged my emotions with her poignant and moving tale, the overload of feelings had me all misty eyed several times through the book And I loved it Malcom Bevingstoke, the Duke of Haven, [...]

5 Doves mate for life Stars She laughed then, hollow and so different from her earlier happiness that he felt the sound like a blow I am to believe that I don t expect you to, he said But it is the truth That is the problem with truth so often you must rely on faith to embrace it And you ve no faith in me He regretted the words the moment they were out, wishing immediately that he could take them back He did not want her to answer The silence that stretched out between them in the wake of the wo [...]

Perfection.Review originally posted at fictionvixen review day duI ve had my complaints and issues with the Scandal and Scoundrel series ever since the release of the first book, The Rogue Not Taken But, honestly Sarah MacLean landed on my auto buy list with Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake and I can t imagine a time when I won t get excited butterflies seeing that she has a new release My anticipation over Seraphina and Haven s story began when Sophie Sera s sister walked onto the page [...]

From what I gathered from the other reviews is that he ACTUALLY cheated on his pregnant wife and got caught redhanded So I wouldn t count if he lived the rest of his life on his knees grovelling and kissing her feet as redemption Nothing short of him becoming a monk with vow of lifelong celibacy after giving the heroine the freedom to choose someone ELSE to marry would be redeeming.Let alone a short celibate period AFTER having his fill of fooling around and getting caught.Also note to self, boo [...]

An achingly beautiful story of heartache and sorrow and a love strong enough to overcome both.When Seraphina, Duchess of Haven, returns to London after years in exile, it is to demand a divorce from her philandering husband, Malcolm Bevingstoke She wants her freedom from him and from their destructive relationship so she can build a new life for herself a life that cannot be hers as long as she is married But conquering her emotions is harder than she imagined most of all when she has to face th [...]

4.5 5Sarah MacLean is a genius A complete utter genius This story easily could have been messy given what we know of the hero from the previous books, but in MacLean s hands, The Day of the Duchess was a poignant, and stunning story of redemption, second chances, and true love This is exactly the sort of book that makes me believe in the power of romance, and reminds me why romance is such a popular genre.Going into The Day of the Duchess, I was equal parts nervous and excited Having read all of [...]

I enjoyed the book, although it was my least favorite of the series The epilogue made it all worth it I can t wait for the Bareknuckle Bastards Hurry up Sarah

Oh man so very conflicted about this book I hate cheating in romance novels There isnothing romantic about it There are sooooooo many other ways to add conflict to a story But I am very very curious to see if MacLean will be able to make me root for Malcom in this book given the fact that we caught him in the act of cheating on his pregnant wife at the beginning of the series The entire situation between Sera and Malcolm seems really messy to me she never told him she loved him and he and everyo [...]

Originally posted at SmexyBooks smexybooks 2017 07 review Favorite Quote Would you like to know why I kept the name Yes Because doves mate for life, and I knew there would never be another for me Readers have been waiting for this couple s story since they were first seen in book one A Rogue Not Taken Malcolm, the Duke of Haven, is caught at a party in a compromising position with a woman who is not his wife by his sister in law, Sophie Talbot Sophie reacts in typical Talbot fashion by calling h [...]

Huge thanks to HarperCollins for providing me with an ARC in exchange for a fair review Going into The Day of the Duchess, I was not sure what to expect Estranged Spouses is my all time favorite Romance trope, but unfortunately coming across a well written estranged spouses in Romance is incredibly rare The Day of the Duchess is one of those rare gems.Sarah Maclean did not write a estranged spouses romances She wrote THE estranged spouses romance The Day of the Duchess was compelling, angsty, ha [...]