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Summary: Decent plot, but hero seemed lacking.
Review: "The Dark Duke", Adrian FitzWalter, has a certain ....reputation around London. A lady's man, to be sure - but also something more. He fights duels, breaks hearts, and is the bane of his step mother's life.Lady Hester is a rather plain daughter of a family with good connections. And yet, she chooses to be the companion of the Duchess of Barroughby. Hester sees something good in Adrian, something the rest of the ton - and his family - have overlooked in him for years. And in nurturing the Dark Duke, Hester discovers a man not nearly as bad as he thinks. A man made meloncholy by circumstance but with nothing evil inside. This was a good book. And I certainly liked Lady Hester. She was quiet, but not at all meek. I enjoy it when heroines trust their instincts where the hero is concerned. Hester trusted in Adrian's innate goodness and went with it. I had some problems with Adrian. Although Adrian meant well, he enabled his step mother and half brother to live shallow, vapid lives. And, of course, his enabling brought on feelings of sadness and meloncholy within Adrian. It is this very meloncholy - bordering almost upon self pity and depression - that kept this book from getting a 4 star rating from me. I don't mind tormented heros, but there's a line between tormented and getting on with life and tormented and wallowing. Adrian wallowed. I enjoyed reading "The Dark Duke". It isn't one of my favorite books by Margaret Moore, but it was still satisfying reading.
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