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Honestly....I was so excited for the release of this book and I’m bummed that so far it’s such a 👎.
Elizabeth Hoyt has written several (more than several, I’ve loved all of them) of my favorites in the romance genre. I’m only halfway thru this one and I’ve pretty much lost interest which NEVER happens for me with her books. There are so many characters & storylines, I’ve lost the chemistry of Freya & Christopher. I keep having to stop & try to remember who is who and what the hell they have to do with the 4-5 main storylines... & on a completely petty note, why is his nickname Kester? I keep reading it as Keister and it throws me off the “love story” even more.
Bottom line: Excellent author. I recommend ALL of her other books. This one is just... too heavily influenced by the authors stance on the Woman’s/Me Too movement. 🤷‍♀️
We don’t need to pack 32 (an exaggeration, but barely) women’s stories into 1 book.


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Not the Duke Darling Includes a bonus novella The Greycourt Series Elizabeth Hoyt 9781538763520 Books Reviews

I'm really struggling with this book. I'm 50% of the way through and I've put it down 10 times which is highly unusual for me. I love Elizabeth Hoyt as an author and I preorder all her books. This one just hasn't worked for me. The romance feels like its taking a backseat to the mystery, there are other characters other than the protagonists having primary points of focalisation, and yet again in a novel, I'm being preached to about feminism. I'm really over that. I just want to read a book. Additionally, I found the heroine to be hard work. Sure, you keep holding your grudge against a scared 18 year old boy. Typically as most of us mature we realize that life contains many shades of grey when it comes to our actions. For a wise woman, she wasn't so wise. Anyway, I will continue to read Hoyt and this series just hoping the next is better and more in line with Hoyt's other works.
First of all, I’m a huge Elizabeth Hoyt fan. Many of her books are on my favorites list and I have read and reread them many times.

That being said, I’m not even sure I can finish this book. I’m wondering if this is a ghost writer? This does not seem at all like Hoyt’s style. Little chemistry between the characters. Way too many sub plots. And the witches theme seems too science fiction/fantasy for my taste. I’m about halfway through and have no idea where she can go with this story.

I really liked Freya the first several chapters. Strong, sassy and smart. I felt like Christopher cane off a bit soft and wimpy but had a great back story. I loved when she bit him and stole the ring! Then...... nothing. No build up. Just like that, the best part of the plot was resolved. And for no apparent reason. 1/3 of the way in.

I’m not giving up on Hoyt. This series has a lot of promise. And I’m going to
White nuckle through the rest of this book as I paid full price for it.
I really enjoyed the Maiden Lane and Four Soldier's books by Hoyt and was looking forward to this beginning in a new series. I was surprisingly disappointed in the book because there was just something missing in the writing and in the characters when compared to Hoyt's other books. The set up was too cluttered with a lot of information thrust pretty quickly into the story (the secret society, the mysterious misfortune of the heroine's brother, etc). By the time the story actually got moving I had not found anything redeeming or attractive in the heroine at all. Belligerent and combative without the intelligence and wit of some of Hoyt's other female characters (think the heroines from the Maiden Lane series) it became pretty hard to root for Freya and her anger against Harlow. It is almost as if the character has been tweaked to fit some idea of a modern independent woman without much attention to the historical norms of the setting.

As a romance novel, it is just fine. But if you like Hoyt's books for strong historical accuracy, complex plots and excellent characterization, you will be a bit surprised at this one. Hopefully the next in the series will be a lot better.
More like YA fantasy, not historically accurate ... and honestly I’m sick of the overly feminist tones of romance novels these days. The heroine was unbearable to the point of mistreating a guy who treated her wonderfully and loved her intellect and independence (rare and unrealistic in those times).

The whole secret society thing was just unrealistic, boring, and poorly implemented.

There were about 389373938373 subplots going on, with all the major happenings happening off screen (which is bad writing, if you ask me).

There were deeper moments (like Christopher’s PTSD) but they were never expanded upon. Because we had to hear about the wise woman and how Freya didn’t need no man (even one who loved her and cherished her) for the 38393838th time.

Also - can authors please refrain from insta love? Can’t we get more than TWO WEEKS for our characters to fall in love?

Honestly? Compared to ML, this doesn’t even seem like the same author. This book was all over the place. 2 stars is generous, but the flow of the writing wasn’t bad. Just the contents of the plot and its jumbled mess.
Honestly....I was so excited for the release of this book and I’m bummed that so far it’s such a 👎.
Elizabeth Hoyt has written several (more than several, I’ve loved all of them) of my favorites in the romance genre. I’m only halfway thru this one and I’ve pretty much lost interest which NEVER happens for me with her books. There are so many characters & storylines, I’ve lost the chemistry of Freya & Christopher. I keep having to stop & try to remember who is who and what the hell they have to do with the 4-5 main storylines... & on a completely petty note, why is his nickname Kester? I keep reading it as Keister and it throws me off the “love story” even more.
Bottom line Excellent author. I recommend ALL of her other books. This one is just... too heavily influenced by the authors stance on the Woman’s/Me Too movement. 🤷‍♀️
We don’t need to pack 32 (an exaggeration, but barely) women’s stories into 1 book.