No Ordinary Duchess

De: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrado por: Ashford McNab

From a New York Times bestselling author, the much-anticipated third novel in the Greycourt series.

Cold and brooding, Julian Greycourt, the heir to the Windemere dukedom, has always known that his uncle the duke was responsible for his mother’s death. Now he’s determined to exact revenge against his uncle—if he can find the proof. But Julian hides a secret so explosive it will destroy him if it’s ever revealed, and the duke is watching. The last thing he needs is a distractingly sensual woman whose very presence threatens to destroy his plans.

Sunny and cheerful, Lady Elspeth de Moray doesn’t know why her brother and Julian fell out all those years ago, but she can’t let the autocratic man get in the way of her mission: to retrieve an ancient family text that she believes is in one of the Windemere libraries. Locating the tome, however, proves trickier than she anticipated, and at each turn, she’s thrown together with the maddingly mysterious Julian. And the temptation to give in to her family’s greatest enemy grows stronger with each intriguing encounter…

©2024 Elizabeth Hoyt (P)2024 Forever

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Hoyt's writing is almost too good to be true."—Lisa Kleypas

"Credible characters, steamy romance, and heart-pounding action set this romance apart."—Publishers Weekly on When a Rogue Meets His Match"

"Hoyt's exquisitely nuanced characters, vividly detailed setting, and seemingly effortless and elegant writing provide the splendid material from which she fashions yet another ravishingly romantic love story."—Booklist on Darling Beast

Wonderful story!

The author and narrator keep me wonder… Life hadn’t been easy for the lady; yet she continued finding ways to make it better. On the other hand the man he is so bitter and blind that can’t see the reality

Awaited

Enjoy Hoyt's works, including Thief of Shadows and Duke of Sin. In this work, admire the development of the primary characters and their believable dynamic. The FMC is a bit of an inversion of Winter Makepeace in that she is a contemplative virgin who takes the dominant role in intimacy.

There's a lot of exposition in this series - "tell", rather than "show": it's interesting to observe where the author's attention is engaged. Several secondary characters set up for possible stories of their own,and I hope the author continues. Slight contradictions to the overall series mystery seem like shifts in developing that story - most noteably that in a prior book the MMC's inner voice 'if only I could discover what happened' while in this book, his knowledge is different

Not One of the Best

I’ve never been disappointed with an Elizabeth Hoyt novel, but I admit, this was the most laborious to get through, and it never did excite me the way her other works have. I found the MFC, Elspeth, to be fairly charming, but Julian, the MMC, was often times grating. Perhaps it’s because I am not partial to his particular form of bedsport, or maybe because his interactions with Elspeth never felt that steamy to me, that I never felt a real connection between the two leads and the relationship felt forced rather than organic. Also, I’ve always been impressed with Ashford McNab’s narration, but in this novel, she gave our MMC such a nasally and annoying voice, I am certain that it contributes to my dislike for him. Maybe when I read the novel without the narration, I will warm to him more. However, because of her superior writing skills, even a lukewarm Hoyt novel is still a good novel. Unfortunately, I’ve heard this will be her last book in the series (I am certain, prematurely ended) and there are still characters and plot lines that feel like they will be permanently dropped, which leaves the loyal and avid Hoyt reader a bit unsatisfied.

I can Suspend Disbelief, but . . .

I typically love Elizabeth Hoyt, so this pains me, but it must be said. SPOILER ALERT! I tolerated the "Wise Women" throughout this series, but I just can't handle it any more. Okay, so I suspended reason and accepted the possibility that there could be a sect of women who remained hidden throughout a millennium in Scotland (uh- right - sure they could). But this secret society dedicated to helping women now is sending assassins to kill women who have left (or not left?) their now closed society? What? Why? Why the particular target in this book? Why is she somehow threatening? Not clear, not explained, probably because there is no semi-reasonable explanation. In a separate plot spanning the entire series, there is no semblance of an explanation offered for why one family member has been killing or trying to kill other family members. ???? On top of all that, this book goes further than the other books in this series in promoting paganism. What a disappointment in so many ways.