Bringing Down the Duke
Evie Dunmore · 2019
A suffragist scholar matches wits with a powerful duke. Victorian feminism meets slow-burn romance.
The case against
Annabelle thinks like a 2019 graduate student costumed in 1879, and the dialogue keeps slipping its period. Dunmore sets up real stakes (suffrage, the duke's standing with the Queen, an election) and then dissolves them the moment the romance needs a clear runway. The slow burn is genuinely slow; the resolution is genuinely convenient.
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