So I got a quarter of the way through this novella before I had that light bulb moment of ...wait I've already read this, haven't I. And indeed, while I confess that I didn't remember the details of the story as well as I would have expected to, given that I had to have read it fairly recently, this definitely was a re-read rather than a first time read. Which is bugging me a BIT since it goes against the premise of this challenge, but oh well.
It was also a good thing that I read it before starting the next book in this series, because this novella starts off the universe with a nice chunk of backstory that will clearly inform the rest of the books. Serena Barton is a governess who is pregnant by the Duke of Clermont. Hugo Marshall is the Duke's man, the notorious Wolf of Clermont, who is in charge of handling such sticky situations on behalf of the Duke. Hugo finds Serena hard to treat as just another faceless problem to be solved, however, and the two of them fall in love. The attraction between the two of them is delightful, and the sex scene is simply fantastic, one of the best in historical m/f romance I've read in quite some time. And it sets the scene for the main series of the books so well. I can't wait to read the next one this weekend.
Grade: A
It was also a good thing that I read it before starting the next book in this series, because this novella starts off the universe with a nice chunk of backstory that will clearly inform the rest of the books. Serena Barton is a governess who is pregnant by the Duke of Clermont. Hugo Marshall is the Duke's man, the notorious Wolf of Clermont, who is in charge of handling such sticky situations on behalf of the Duke. Hugo finds Serena hard to treat as just another faceless problem to be solved, however, and the two of them fall in love. The attraction between the two of them is delightful, and the sex scene is simply fantastic, one of the best in historical m/f romance I've read in quite some time. And it sets the scene for the main series of the books so well. I can't wait to read the next one this weekend.
Grade: A
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