Book review: In Bed With a Duke By Christina Dodd
It was Christina Dodd’s “the runaway princess” that got me into reading Historical Romances. Other than “Some Enchanted Evening” I have been satisfied with every Historical Romance that she wrote. as she began to write modern romances and Paranormals; I liked her books in that category as well, though not as much as the historical ones so when she decided that she will be releasing “In Bed with a Duke” her first historical romance in 4 years I was more than excited.
The plot interested me, it had a Zorro feel to it but I have to say that I had a lot of expectations from this book and at the beginning of it I found myself not really getting into it as much as I wanted to. Emma seemed to be an interesting character and Michael has that traditional charm that most heroes have in books. Towards the middle of the book I found myself getting more and more interested in the plot. I did have a problem with Emma ‘Thanking’ the Reaper the way that she did and continued to do so for some chapters, while it’s a nice romantic twist having her meet and make love to a guy in a mask who is supposedly a Ghost; it seemed a bit rushed to me. She jumped into bed the 3rd time she met him, the previous two was when he saved her and when she hid him from Sandre’s guards. I feel that her relationship with the Reaper could have been more developed.
As I said, from the middle of the book I started to get interested in it and continued to read with interest until the last page, which I finally say I can experience a book whose ending really ruined the whole thing for me. Michael’s revenge on Sandre was something I would have never thought I would read in a historical romance book or a book meant for children. The method he used as humiliation was defiantly the ultimate humiliation for the prince but I felt that i was thrown in a children’s cartoon because I couldn’t see that scene happening unless it was in a cartoon. Plus she didn’t really have to describe in details where Michael had placed the candle in, it was a bit much
I’m not saying that I didn’t enjoy the book, it did have a nice Zorro theme to it which I have been dying to read in a historical setting but I think that her previous Historicals really shined over this one.