The Heir (Duke's Obsession, #1) (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Okay, ladies, say it with me now: If you meet a guy, and you love him, and he loves you, and you're perfect for each other in every way, and if he just happens to be a wealthy English earl... um, go for it. Right? If you love him, trust him just a liiiiittle bit. He might be able to help you. Because he's an earl. And he has resources. Also, very good looking - but that's just a bonus. My beef with Anna Seaton in The Heir is that she's scared stupid about someone finding her, which has led her to conceal her identity and take a position as a housekeeper in Gayle Windham, Hot Earl of Westhaven's house. You know - the usual. And Anna... well, how does she expect her problems to EVER go away if she doesn't ask for help? You have a hot earl who is IN LOVE WITH YOU at your disposal and you decide time after time that you're just too freaked out about your past to let him fix it?Oh, but I liked the book. I'm human, after all, and I don't mind hot English earls. Anna's trust issues are more realistic than I want to believe, and without them we wouldn't have a book, but I think the author used those issues to stretch out the page count. It's about 450 pages. It could have been 250 or 300. I wanted a romantic jaunt, not an epic. The steamy parts were a good time. The author certainly does give the reader a good dose of typical romance novel fare. The writing itself was good - not Shakespeare, but I wasn't looking for that. Side note: The private eye character, Benjamin Hazlit? Yeah. Every time he walked into the room, I wondered why no one seemed to be after HIM, as he seems to ooze intelligence and a certain I'm-a-detective-and-I-care-only-for-the-truth attitude. Maybe that's just my own preference peeking in here. Oooh, some Googling has told me that he stars in a different book. Well, then. Onto the next. I love Anna. What an amazing character. She's everything I love in the women of the genre. They're tough, slightly no-nonsense, and they'll do anything to protect those they love. Not only that, but they take pride in their vocation of choice. Flowers, marzipan, lemonade, these are the tools that make up her arsenal. Gayle on the other hand, is supposed to be really serious. I have to say, that I see very little of that serious nature in this book. Between his brothers, and Anna he seems to be quite playful.And though, perhaps the true story line doesn't start till later on in the novel, the chapters leading up to that are wonderfully sweet and interesting. As they slowly learn each other's nature, we learn theirs.
What do You think about The Heir (Duke's Obsession, #1) (2010)?
Liked this one. Anna is a cool character, and Westhaven takes the time to really discover her.
—longhorn2442
An odd premise, which I just couldn't get into.
—david
