Review: The Duchess Deal

I was not a huge fan of The Duchess Deal. It was fun, it was readable, there was steam, but the romance was not the part I enjoyed the most. The entire story is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, right down to there being a Cogsworth-type as well as other servants all desperate to get their “Master” to fall in love so that he can be happy again. The servants’ eagerness actually leads to some really cute dialogue, some of the best in the book.

The hero is the Beast, unsurprisingly, and very ...