Scarlett Scott

The Detective Duke

Molly Morgan

I LOVED THIS.

The plot to this book was so different and fun to what I've normally read int he regency genre. The SPICE WAS SO GOOD. Scarlett Scott knows how to heat up the page. 

I loved the FMC and how she won over the grumpy, cold MMC. Their romance felt genuine and I loved every moment.

Tori Jarrett

This was so good! I’ve had a string of historical romances on KU that just weren’t it, but Scarlett Scott has a new fan! 

The Detective Duke has one of my most loved tropes: marriage of convenience. Hudson needs a wife with a substantial dowry after he inherits a dukedom riddled with debt. As the oldest daughter, Elysande needs to marry so her younger sister can marry. 

I really loved that these two started to care about each other really early on. Too often, there’s pages and pages between the marriage and the characters in HisRos even admitting they tolerate each other, so this was a pleasant change. 

Hudson was such a good break from the super alphahole H I’m used to in HisRos. Not to say I don’t love alphaholes, but it’s nice to get a hero that’s more gentleman than rake on occasion. I did think it was funny that he fled to London because his feelings scared the shit out of him. 

Elysande was a great blend of independent and sweet. I liked that she loved to work with engineering and electricity. She didn’t want to marry but she threw herself into making the marriage work. 

There were a few things keeping this from being a five star read. I felt that the villain was a little too obvious and the murder plot was wrapped up a little too conveniently. And Elysande’s inventing storyline was kind of abandoned in the middle and picked back up in the epilogue. I understood why. Her husband was being accused of murder. But I would have liked to see just a little bit more about it. 

Overall, this was really enjoyable and I’ll be diving into Scott’s Wicked Winters series next!

The Detective Duke

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