Joanna Shupe
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/🔥🔥🔥🔥(maybe more…I lost count)
“He inclined his head but didn’t stare directly at her. She was the sun, bright and dangerous, and if he looked too long she was liable to scorch his insides.”
FINALLY…The Duke Gets Even…and boy is it sweet. Plenty of witty conversation, plenty of delicious hot sexy time…and a whole lot of feels. There’s even a few laughs. We’ve had the opportunity to get to know the Duke and Nellie throughout the series and have grown to love them. We’ve sensed the incredible heat and chemistry between them and to finally have the opportunity to watch it grow…man….I loved it.
I must say, the book is beautifully written, drawing you in immediately in the opening scene and holding you firmly in its grasp until the very end. Lockwood and Nellie are so well written that you can feel their chemistry flowing off the page. Lockwood…is like the perfect man. I love almost every aspect of this book EXCEPT…about 3/4th of the way, the author introduces a subplot for Nellie, one that I feel really isn’t needed. I get why she does it, I just don’t think it’s really needed…. but that’s me…you might love it.
Eleanor Young…or Nellie to her closest friends is intelligent, headstrong, independent, and quite a handful. She knows what she wants and has no problem going after it. Ruined, on purpose during her first season, Nellie is a social pariah. Despite her prickly personality and sharp tongue Lockwood can’t seem to resist her and will do whatever it takes to make her his.
Andrew Talbot, eighth Duke of Lockwood, is a man of honor. Determined to do what’s right for his lineage and those who depend on him, Lockwood is back in New York to find a bride…fourth times a charm. But Lockwood is more than he appears. He is charming and charismatic…and more than a little bit naughty. He’s exactly what Nellie needs and nothing will stand in his way of having her…not even her stubborn will.
No one does New York’s Gilded Age quite like Shupe. Her writing sparkles and we see it yet again with this final installment in the Fifth Avenue Rebels of The Duke Gets Even. If you liked the first three books…you’ll like this one too. I can only hope that there’s a spinoff happening, cause I’d love to see more of Nellie’s family’s Irish roots.
Tropes: Ruined heroine, Enemies to Lovers
Kesha Young 