The Duke Is But a Dream

Book Review of The Duke Is But A Dream (Debutante Diaries Series)

Title: The Duke Is But A Dream

Series: Debutante Diaries Series

Author: Anna Bennett

Date Published:July 30th 2019

Date Read: July 27, 2019 

The Blurb:Once upon a time three young ladies vowed to record their first London seasons…and to fill in the gaps of their finishing school educations. Thus began The Debutante Diaries—and London will never be the same…

HE’S COME TO HER RESCUE

Miss Lily Hartley is the anonymous mastermind behind the ton’s latest obsession: The Debutante’s Revenge, a titillating advice column for ladies on the marriage mart. To keep her identity secret, Lily delivers her columns disguised as a chimney sweep—which is all well and good, until she unwittingly lands in the middle of an ugly tavern brawl. Fortunately, the devastatingly handsome Duke of Stonebridge sweeps in to rescue her.Unfortunately, Lily’s dressed as a boy—and holding rather incriminating evidence linking her to the scandalous column. Drat.

SHE’S LOST HER MEMORY

When Eric Nash, Duke of Stonebridge, sees a helpless lad receive a nasty blow to the head, he’s outraged. But when he discovers there’s a beautiful woman hiding beneath the chimney sweep’s cap, he’s positively stunned. Nash would happily escort her home, but she’s forgotten her name—leaving him little choice but to take her in himself until he can locate her family. But the closer he gets to finding them, the more he doesn’t want to let her go.

WILL THEY FIND LOVE?

Lily’s trying to figure out exactly who she is…in more ways than one. With so much at stake—her column, her reputation, and even her heart—she needs a plan, and she needs it fast. Before Nash finds her family. Before he learns who she is. Before they fall totally, completely, and utterly inconveniently in love.

My Review

2 Yea didn't feel the dream stars

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I will be giving some spoilers to explain why I don't like the book. Please don't read if you don't want spoilers.

I'm sorry, I tried. I really did, but I didn't like this book at all. I don't want to go into to much details. Especially with the plot, and drop any major spoilers, but I will try to give the reasons why this wasn't my jam. First off I have no clue what the time period is. There is no mention of a date, I just know it's historical. That only bugged me a little, but still it would have been nice to have a time frame. My biggest problem with this book, and it was something I just couldn't overlook at all, was that Lily and Nash didn't act like historical English aristocrats at all. This could have been set in 2019 the way Lily acted. Nash too, but his could be overlooked as men got away with more back then. Without saying to much, Lily gets amnesia. With no memory of who she is, and being a lady of (I'm guessing some time in 1800s, because again no timeline) She after 2 days of knowing the duke, is making out with him, going down on him, and willing to ruin herself, by having sex with a total stranger. She didn't know if she was married. Back in a day when women didn't do that, and even when they did it was with very little knowledge of the act going into it. Not Lily, she was going at it like a seasoned pro.

She didn't have any virginal shyness. She was DTF from the start. It was just too much. Even if she was full of passion, and love for Nash, and decided to go all the way she wouldn't have been so bold. Hello, she only knew him for a couple of days! Yet I'm to believe that a sheltered, young virgin, lady of the ton would be giving a handy, a bj, letting him go down on her, and losing her v card riding him. It was just so far out of the norm from that time-ish period that I couldn't stop rolling my eyes. She was like that the whole book. It was unbelievable. If I can't believe in the love, then I can't connect to the couple. This book was just not for me. I found myself bored, annoyed at the ridiculousness of it all, and I was happy to be done with it. I don't think I will be trying this author again, or at least not in the Historical Romance dept. Sorry.