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    One Tempting Proposal

    By Christy Carlyle

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    Becoming engaged? Simple. Resisting temptation? Impossible.

    Sebastian Fennick, the newest Duke of Wrexford, prefers the straightforwardness of mathematics to romantic nonsense. When he meets Lady Katherine Adderly at the first ball of the season, he finds her as alluring as she is disagreeable. His title may now require him to marry, but Sebastian can’t think of anyone less fit to be his wife, even if he can’t get her out of his mind.

    After five seasons of snubbing suitors and making small talk, Lady Kitty has seen all the ton has to offer…and she’s not impressed. But when Kitty’s overbearing father demands she must marry before her beloved younger sister can, she proposes a plan to the handsome duke. Kitty’s schemes always seem to backfire, but she knows this one can’t go wrong. After all, she’s not the least bit tempted by Sebastian, is she?

    An Avon Romance

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 17, 2015
    ISBN9780062428011
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    Christy Carlyle

    Fueled by Pacific Northwest coffee and inspired by multiple viewings of every British costume drama she can get her hands on, USA Today bestselling author Christy Carlyle writes sensual historical romance set in the Victorian era. She loves heroes who struggle against all odds and heroines who are ahead of their time. A former teacher with a degree in history, she finds there’s nothing better than being able to combine her love of the past with a die-hard belief in happy endings.

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    • 3/5
      This novel is a retelling of Taming of the Shrew, sometimes subtly, sometimes very explicitly (the hero calls the heroine Kat, despite her repeated requests not to). Both characters are consistently their own worst enemies and the driving force of the plot is their refusal to have an adult conversation at any point. It's hard to buy the HEA, because they never learn to communicate with each other. Sebastian's refusal to recognise Kitty's wish in terms of her name, which he's ultimately rewarded for, is uncomfortably controlling. There's a fine line between alpha and arsehole, and to me, that crosses it.The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's more problematic plays; most adaptations try to downplay the misogyny, but it's hard to erase entirely. I was curious as to how a novel set in the late Victorian period would tackle the gender dynamics - women's suffrage was a huge part of the social conversation - but ultimately, I was disappointed. Though paying lip service to feminism, the novel managed to add wholly new misogynistic elements without examining the original narrative's. The evil ex is cartoonishly evil, with her fake pregnancies and gold-digging, and seems only to exist to red flag the couple's inability to communicate further. There's also a Mean Girl friend, who's there to make Kitty's lapses into real cruelty look less bad, and who is set up to be punished for her behaviour with a loveless marriage.The secondary couple have about as much chemistry as Bianca and Lucentio do in the original play. I really thought the pairings would end differently, because the novel really makes a point that they don't know each other and the secondary hero has more in common with Seb's sister. I don't know if it's there to make the primary couple look better, but it's a weird vibe to end the novel on a marriage that's heavily implied won't work out.Kitty's cruelty makes her an interestingly flawed character and there are some nice moments in the novel, such as Sebastian rescuing a hat. At the end of the day, I just never bought into either romance as something that would last, and I was disappointed by the novel's treatment of some female characters at the expense of others.