If I Only Had a Duke

This book started out pretty good, with some cheeky letters between the Duke of Osborne, or Dalton as he likes to be called, and Lady Dorothea, also known as Thea. I was enjoying their story right along until... I am not even sure when I started to get annoyed with them! All I know is I was thinking, yeah right, a lot. Thea insists she is not trying to saddle him with marriage to her by getting them caught in a compromising position, but all she does is provoke him into compromising positions. And for the love of god, can we stop with the men who prove that they are men by kissing the girls. Yes yes we get it, you kiss so well.

The side characters were amusing, Con and Molly. Molly is a young girl from the village that Thea is trying to run away to, and Con is the dukes... henchman. Or something. I was wondering why throughout the beginning of the book that Dalton thought Thea had tried to trap his friend, the Duke of Harland, from the previous book, into a marriage when it was Thea's grandmother. Right? Maybe I am remembering that wrong. There were parts of this romance that were pretty cute, but most of it simply felt bland.