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This is a decent installment in Linden's The Truth About The Duke series but enjoyment of it will hinge on your tolerance for dependent heroines. After presenting herself as the Powerball Jackpot to Gerard's potential money problems Katherine is disappointed to find he doesn't talk to her or send her letters. Gerard, for his part, rescues her from the completely non dangerous villain of her tale and sets her up in Bath with friends, shops, and free time. (How dare he!). Despite asking for nothing, Katherine expects everything and is devastated when Gerard doesn't confide in her. A few jealous flounces later, Gerard realizes he loves her and gives up everything that was motivating him up to that point.

If you can find sympathy for Katherine, Blame It On Bath is a charming tale of two strangers working their way through their expectations and learning to communicate their needs. Free of manufactured peril, Katherine and Gerard's story unfolds as a tale of a new marriage built on assumptions and hopes. Well written and advancing the story enough, Blame it on Bath is a decent read. I couldn't warm up to Katherine and her inferiority issues. Gerard had far more patience with her than I could.


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Blame It on Bath The Truth About the Duke Caroline Linden 9780062025333 Books Reviews

I saw another reviewer state the the heroine of this book is too needy. From the sample chapters this does not appear to be the case as when the heroine is introduced she is quite interesting. Unfortunately the reviewer saying the heroine is needy is correct. The heroine never really grows beyond passively suffering her mother or thinking badly of herself. The hero on the other hand seems underdeveloped and detached. In the end the only thing the relation stemmed to be about was a pleasant but distant daily life mixed with physical attraction. The hero and heroine rarely speak and even more rarely speak of anything of substance. When they do speak of something beyond bland niceties the reader is only told about it rather than shown it. This leads to the two fold problem of creating little chemistry between the leads and no way to discern when (or even why) the hero grew to love the heroine.

Nothing is wrong with the book. It just could have been better. Linden has done better in the past. This isn't Linden's best book.
This is a delightful follow-on to One Night in London, part of The Truth About the Duke trilogy. The three deLacey brothers, sons of the late Duke of Durham, are trying to find a blackmailer and secure evidence to show whether their father was a bigamist. If he was, they will be considered bastards and lose virtually all of their inheritance.

What I Liked
* Captain Lord Gerard deLacey. He's handsome (of course), brash, adventurous, and loyal. He's the youngest son, serving in the wars against Napoleon. Under any circumstances his fortune will be relatively small, so he's decided to be on the lookout for a rich bride while he travels to Bath to track down information on the blackmailer. When a perfectly strange wealthy woman proposes a marriage of convenience, he barely hesitates before deciding to take on the challenge.

* Kate deLacey. You can't help but feel sorry for her at first. She's hardly had an enjoyable life, despite her wealth. Her vain, narcissistic mother has convinced her she's too plain to attract a man and married her off to a middle-aged viscount, who ignored and abused her. Now that he's dead, her mother is pressuring her to marry the viscount's odious heir, convinced that nobody better will ever come along. Kate is such a doormat that she doubts her ability to withstand her mother's pressure. The most enjoyable part of the book is watching her emerge from her shell, in response to Gerard's kindness and attention. She doesn't become a "beauty," but rather simply a beautiful person.

* Sexytimes. Gerard wants to break down Kate's defenses, and she discovers her previously unknown wanton side. Excellent love scenes.

* The love story. Kate harbors a childhood passion for Gerard, but he has no memory of meeting her. Linden does an excellent job of showing Gerard's surprise and wonder as he gradually finds himself falling in love with his wife. This is just a very sweet story.

What I Didn't Like
* Not a lot of progress is made toward resolving the mystery, but after the first book, I came to realize that it wouldn't be wrapped up until the third.

* As a 21st century woman, I often have trouble understanding an 19th century woman's desperation to get married. Linden mentions several times that a widow was almost as independent as a man, so it was difficult to see why Kate thought marriage, or death, was her only way to avoid the odious heir. It was hard to believe that she was so cowed by her mother. She was so spineless in this regard, but yet showed great spirit elsewhere.

These two volumes of The Truth About the Duke were my first Caroline Linden reads, and I find her writing crisp and witty. She does not indulge in one of my pet peeves, namely using an abundance of one-word sentences and one-sentence paragraphs. It's a pleasure to read someone who knows and uses the English language so well.
Entertaining book but the mystery is not solved until the last book in the series. There is also a lot of recapping from the first book in the series. Additionally, the hero was kind of a dolt. He went riding numerous times with a scandalous woman of loose virtue, flirting and leading her on, without informing his wife. When confronted by his wife, he claimed the ends justified the means. Furthermore, when he went off on what was supposed to be a two day trip that turned into two weeks, he didn’t even send his wife a note telling her this. He just ignored her basically. Not my kind of hero by any stretch.
This is a decent installment in Linden's The Truth About The Duke series but enjoyment of it will hinge on your tolerance for dependent heroines. After presenting herself as the Powerball Jackpot to Gerard's potential money problems Katherine is disappointed to find he doesn't talk to her or send her letters. Gerard, for his part, rescues her from the completely non dangerous villain of her tale and sets her up in Bath with friends, shops, and free time. (How dare he!). Despite asking for nothing, Katherine expects everything and is devastated when Gerard doesn't confide in her. A few jealous flounces later, Gerard realizes he loves her and gives up everything that was motivating him up to that point.

If you can find sympathy for Katherine, Blame It On Bath is a charming tale of two strangers working their way through their expectations and learning to communicate their needs. Free of manufactured peril, Katherine and Gerard's story unfolds as a tale of a new marriage built on assumptions and hopes. Well written and advancing the story enough, Blame it on Bath is a decent read. I couldn't warm up to Katherine and her inferiority issues. Gerard had far more patience with her than I could.