The Duke's Masked Wife

The Duke's Masked Wife #1

by Violet_167 _

The baron’s daughter, Alessandra Barrett, has worn a mask from a young age due to an injury. Many say if you were to see the face behind the mask, you would be cursed and die soon afterward. She is seen as a ghost, avoided by all who visit the baron's home until she becomes the duke’s wife.

No one could understand why the duke would pick such a wife. Did he wish to die?

What would become of the girl who once hid in the shadows but now had the spotlight on her as the duke’s masked wife?

What would everyone say if they were to learn the truth that she was in a contracted marriage with the duke?

Genres: Romance, Historical Fiction

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2023

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

My rating for the whole series. The ideas are good and the story is compelling - definitely soapy - but it's not well written and the pacing is slow. I ended up skipping around after the first 200 chapters (!) to get my questions answered. Note there are some pretty explicit adult scenes and a few scenes of graphic violence.

[Jennie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the plot and storyline of the book. but to me it felt over explained in some areas and stretched out.

[Mary Ellen Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Duke's Masked Wife

A cliffhanger, grr, oh well. I liked it so far. Hopefully the next part will be good also. I am not sure about it.

[Kimberly Fuentes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth it!

Kept me turning the page ,and looking forward to the next time I could sit down to read. I loved it ! This is my first time reading this author and I will definitely look into more.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this series purely by coincidence and ended up binge reading it over the course of a few days. I did not have high expectations, but this was a delightful read and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. The character development was good and felt sincere (aside from some minor timeline oddness and other snall things) and I was thoroughly hooked by the political intrigue and slow unfolding of events. Very well written especially for the first web novel I've seen to the end. I would love to own a physical copy of the full story someday, and I hope to find more work by the author. Very comfy read.

[Danielle Schutte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fast read

It's a good fast read. Funny romance. But there are quite a few grammatical errors that should have been caught by an editor.

[Erin Wiggins · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not done with the whole of the series while writing this, but I have read enough that I have a pretty good idea of the plot and writing style of the work.
Although I enjoy the story there are a few things that really get under my skin about this series. I don't want to bash the author, but I feel like if you are going to choose a time in which to have the setting of your story to be, then you should follow the speech used for that era. This seems to take place in an era of the past, with corsets, lace up dresses, before electricity in houses, etc. Maybe the 17 or 1800's? During that time people did not use phrases like "cool" "oh, snap" and "awesome". There weren't zips on clothing. Just a few examples. It just takes away from the experience of the story.
Now, I don't know if this was because of where I read this or not, but shouldn't the body or writing be edited for typos and grammatical errors? I haven't gone a sentence without missing letters, wrong words used, or some type of error in general. Again it just takes away from the body of work. Overall it's a good story, but when you don't have the proper editing and you haven't followed along with the time frame that you chose it just really pulls away from what you're trying to convey. I am not trying to bash the author, I guess I'm just trying to add some insights and thoughts from a reader.

[Judy Tarver · Rating 4 out of 5]

This isn’t exactly a romance, it starts out kind of like a Cinderella story except it has a more modern type plot of an arranged contract marriage for a woman who’s mother left and when her father remarried he let his new wife and daughter bully and abuse his daughter. Now she has agreed to marry a duke to escape her prison of a home but her family has other plans because all they care about is money and doing evil things and it also looks like this series will be a revenge story as well. Good so far but one star off for this type of story being redone sooooo many times where a contract marriage and the whole evil stepmother and sister and revenge thing. But who doesn’t love a good revenge story, even if it isn’t very realistic? It’s fiction so…

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

The storyline is good, but the writing feels a bit amateur. With the number of grammar mistakes, the book really needs proper proofreading and editing. Some parts were so redundant that I ended up skipping over them. As it stands, it’s hard to justify spending nearly $90 to read the whole 19-book series, so I stopped at book 3. With better editing and tighter writing, it would be enjoyable enough to finish the series. Honestly, it might work better as a single book priced at $4.99 instead of 19 separate installments.

[Jean Lubo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story plot is interesting, I feel I want to know more,however the writing seems amateurish. So many misspelled words like there’s no editing. Then there is grouping of words missing. The price for a short story written so poorly is a bit high. I paid over 5$ for this book. I’m skeptical about looking for book 2

[Donna Lawson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased the series from Amazon after wasting money buying coins from PFM 😫. It's a great series, that's a page turner. This is something I ordinarily wouldn't have read 🤔. It's more of a historical series that is so worth all the excitement 😉.

[Mary Moritz · Rating 5 out of 5]

🤗

Story is good and flows well. This is a book you will have a hard time putting down. Author has more published work on Webnovel.

[Zarah]

Hola, en donde encuentro el libro para poder leerlo, gracias

[Morgana Ross · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great premise. Although it kind of wanders a bit, it's interesting enough to keep reading.

[Selena · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was kind of down and usually, these cheer me up but I got so bored somewhere in the middle that I just leafed through the remaining pages.

[Barbara Senteney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed reading this, very imaginative, suspenseful, leading to a great story of love and romance.