One Day my Duke Will Come: 5 (The Wayward Woodvilles)

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A huge emotional pull – these characters both have a story that will grab your heart. A history, pain, but come out stronger in the end and are perfect for each other. First, a disclaimer: I have not read the first book and my rating has been impacted by this because the MC's meet in the first book. So when this book begins they already know each other. I felt like I was walking in the middle of the story. One of my favorite parts of reading romance is the first meeting so this didn't bode well for me. Quincy left behind whom he was to begin anew and he made of his new life a success, now close to make his and his father’s long time dream true, his existence is once more turned upside down by a much unexpected news. Him the forth and lost son of a Duke is now the bearer of his father’s title. And with it, its bankrupted estate. Thank you to the publisher for the ARC given through NetGalley for review. All opinions are my own. Ugh, I don’t like this – purposefully flirting with another man, especially towards the end of the book (we’re at almost 80% here)

Compromised (ruined) heroine – heroine walks in on the hero in the bath at a house party and is seen Clara’s great-aunt, Lady Olivia Tesh, is ALWAYS trying to set Clara up with eligible men and Clara hates it when she does that. Not just because Clara simply doesn’t want to marry. Her reasons for that run deep and cold - to the point that she’s buried them utterly and is simply out to help her family. I never really felt like Quincy's character gave me anything beyond a penciled outline; like I mentioned, though, I didn't read the first book and more of his sea adventures could have been covered there. Clara had more to her but so much of it was the constant hovering of her mysterious past mistake. I read a good amount of Regency romance, so that could have affected my enjoyment, but the characters and storyline, unfortunately, felt like going through the Regency motions. Clara has a great-aunt that could be Lady Dansbury's (of Bridgerton series fame) understudy, the sprung on you dukedom, hidden scandal, and mean/evil parent. All these are elements that, in some way, over and over bring readers to the Regency sub-genre but there just wasn't any life or feeling delivered behind them for me here. Tatum and Millie only connect emotionally through sex, I don't remember a time in the story where they actually get to know one another outside of the bedroom.

One Day my Duke Will Come

Number of Sex Scenes: 🍆🍆🍆 (3 eggplants) – exact locations of kisses/sex at end under spoiler warning. This is book 2 in the series. You will be okay reading as a stand alone, but I do think you will get much more enjoyment out of it if you read book one. The hero and heroine from book 1 are in this book quite a bit and we also get to meet both Clara and Quincy in book 1.

WONDERFUL!!! One Day my Duke Will Come by Tamara Gill is book 5 in The Wayward Woodvilles series and what a great series this is. though in a series this book can be read as a standalone. Tamara has such an original way of writing her books and she never disappoint. She is such a talented writer and I hold my breath for her next release and I always have to read them right away. What I really liked about this enemies to lovers story is that the arguments never lasted long and the sizzle between Tatum and Millie was terrific as well as the banter!! I found this book to be original, easy to read, wonderful characters, vivid descriptions and just a true delight to read. Tamara is defiantly one of the best writers of today. This story has a lady who can’t count, a duke never wanting to marry, being stood up at the alter, never getting over being stood up, totally disliking the other person, a forced marriage due to scandal, having hope and losing it, misunderstandings, having no trust, not wanting to be made of fool of again, jealousy, a good friend & companion, accusations and falling in love. I am highly recommending you read this book… as I said it was a true delight!!! I was also a bit sad by the first kiss. Maybe I am weird but I live for that first kiss in a romance and I don’t feel we really even got a first kiss in this book. It was about two sentences long. Not descriptive. There was a lot of buildup before that so I wish it was more developed. This is really just a matter of personal preference though and not an indication that something is wrong with the book. I really enjoyed this ARC from Christina Britton. I read the first book in this series earlier this year, and as much as I liked it, I really wanted to see the story develop between Clara and Quincy. We get that here and it is fantastic - I really love these two as a couple. This book made me laugh, cry and I truly enjoyed it because these two leads were so good to each other and they deserved to be happy.

Customer Reviews

This author is new to me and I found the writing to be incredibly warm and witty. I was drawn in from the beginning. I loved the friendship between Quincy and Clara's brother, Peter. I wanted Quincy's evil mother to get punched in the face (spoiler: doesn't happen, but I wish it had). I was anxious to find out more about all the characters and I liked the way the story unfolded. This is definitely an author I will keep an eye on! I am a huge fan of the fake-engagement trope in historical romance and really loved the way Britton went about mixing it with the friends-to-lovers trope. This is a slowburn romance and I do wish that we saw a little more of their pining for one another earlier on.