4 Stars
This is the first book in a series that follows three
sisters. This book is about the oldest
daughter: Marcelline Noirot. She and her
sisters run a dress shop in London. They
are trying to out do their competition. It
becomes clear early on that Marcelline is very talented with both designing
dresses but also knowing what shapes and colors would be best for her
customers. They need one big client to
help move the elite shoppers in her direction and they have finally found
her. The problem is they have to attract
this woman first.
The sisters have set their eyes upon the soon to be Duchess
of Clevedon. To get to the duchess-to-be
the sisters have decided to attract the attention of the Duke of Clevedon
first. This seems a bit backward to me,
but Marcelline is very upfront with the Duke so there isn’t a lot of annoying
misunderstanding the whole time.
Obviously you can see where the trouble lies. You know that the Duke and Marcelline will
fall for each other, but the enjoyable part is the journey these two take to
get to each other. You also genuinely
like the duchess-to-be, but the author handles that very well.
The next book is obviously going to be about the next
sister, Sophie and the Duke’s friend, Longmore (also the Duchess-to-be’s
brother!). One problem I often have with
a series is they make the first hero so wonderful and everything you want to see
in your book-men that when the series moves on to another man he seems like
less of a catch. I am actually genuinely
excited to get to know Longmore better.
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