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jaqboots
Jan 05, 2011jaqboots rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I've enjoyed all of Duran's novels so far, and this is perhaps my second favourite. Her language is lush and incredibly evocative, and her interplay between hero and heroine credible and real. Her settings are more interesting than most ... she has set this one in the last gasp of the Victorian era, when everything was about to change with the advent of the 20th century. The heroine is (initially) a shrine to all the Victorian virtues that are about to become outmoded, and in some quarters, already have. I've chosen four stars largely because the novel is not perfect, and not quite as gripping as Duran's first novel, The Duke of Shadows. But Wicked Becomes You, like all of the Duran novels, is a delight to read, and the lovely language alone makes it a more enjoyable than 90% of the books on the romance shelf. (And I love romance novels.)