A Duke in Shining Armor

This somehow felt like the middle book of a series but apparently it's the first? (All the talk about how Blackwood and Alice were married and there was some weird tension felt like it was supposed to be a callback to an earlier book but maybe it'll be a subsequent one, but anyway.) Maybe this is 3.5, rounding up - there were a lot more references to the male lead's dick than I usually care for. (I realize these are romance novels at all that, but meh.) I liked the road trip in the beginning leading into the friendship/banter and the wonderful trope of the leads locked together in an out-of-the-way guesthouse in a thunderstorm, which I unironically love for some reason. I hadn't read any Loretta Chase before this, but my library has quite a few of hers on ebook, so I'll have to check them out.

Fun, though definitely not Chase's best. If Ripley thought one more variation of, “I'm a mAN; it's a miracle I can keep myself from ripping her clothes off this very second,” I was going to reach through the pages and strangle him.

I am very intrigued by Alice and Blackwood, though.

DNF Just not interesting enough. Maybe I am not in the mood for a historical romance..