false A bit tedious to get through, but not a horrible book. Full review to come. 0 2009-02-22T06:54:13-08:00 416756 370 2009-02-22T06:54:13-08:00 Setting this one aside temporarily so that I can read Robyn Carr's "Temptation Ridge" 0 2009-02-18T11:51:42-08:00 401465 78 2009-02-18T11:51:42-08:00 3 7 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 07 07:24:58 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 22 13:27:56 -0800 2009
Mr Cavendish, I Presume is the 2nd book in the Two Dukes of Wyndham series. What makes the series unique is that the two books aren't just connected by character or theme; they are actually simultaneously told. In the first book you get Jack and Grace's POV's about how Jack might actually be the true Duke of Wyndham, and in the 2nd book you get Thomas and Amelia's POV's.

The first book tells the story of how Jack was the unknown, and probably legitimate, son of John Cavendish...and that if he was legitimate, he would be the true Duke of Wyndham. And the second book focuses on the man who believed HE was the Duke - Thomas Cavendish. As the only remaining heir to inherit, Thomas was raised to be Wyndham, and he was also betrothed at a very young age to Amelia Willoughby. Now it's all falling apart. Soon, he may be a nobody. It figured that it would happen just as he was beginning to realize that maybe he did want to marry Amelia.

I don't think it would be quite wrong to say you could read just one of these books and know almost everything that happens. All you would really miss would be few romantic scenes between whichever H/H. But otherwise? You could read just one and completely understand the story. Each book pretty much tells you the same exact there. Once you read book one, there's nothing unique about book two other than a different H/H. You know exactly what's going to happen next, exactly how the plot is going to end up. It left me with absolutely no anticipation of what was to come in the book. Plus there were some scenes that were almost a complete repeat of scenes from the first book. Those were rather boring to have to reread.

For me, the two books weren't unique enough. And reading them so close together just made it rather tedious to make it through the second one. I did like Thomas and Amelia and wanted to see how things would work out between them, but the repetition of everything else was rather boring.

I would much rather the 2nd book not been a simultaneous story, but just a connected book. And I have to admit that I'll think twice before reading another pair of books that tell the same story from two different perspectives. ]]>