The Duke Goes Down

The Duke Hunt, Book #1

by Sophie Jordan

⭐⭐⭐/5

Sophie Jordan introduces us to her latest series, The Duke Hunt with the first book, The Duke Goes Down.

This is an interesting tale of tables turning where the childhood bully and social better has their circumstance ripped away from them and they return to have the “victim” proceed to bully them… then they fall in love! OK- stay with me on this!

Imogen Bates and Peregrine Butler (former Duke of Penning) have known each other since childhood. Always seeing himself as far above the young vicar’s daughter, Perry was never kind to her…

Fast forward 10 years and things have changes drastically, Perry is stripped of his dukedom and returns to the small town where Imogen still resides and tends to her vicar father. He no longer has his titles or inheritance and he needs to find an heiress to marry in order to return to some semblance of his former life.

Imogen is still nursing hurt feelings and takes it upon herself to enact revenge against the former duke and sabotage his marital prospects. She’s not too stealthy and Perry discovers her treachery and eventually persuades her into rectifying the situation… all the while the time they are spending together starts to bring them closer and allows both of them to see the true person for once. An attraction blooms!

This was a harder book for me to get behind. I love a good enemies to lovers but some of the actions in this story really veered into bullying in my opinion. After mulling over this book I have a better opinion of it. While reading I really didn’t like the heroine and I think I judged her more harshly because she was the daughter of the vicar. I wish Imogen had felt more remorse for her actions…. On the flip side, the redemption for Perry was well done and I enjoyed seeing him transform from the Duke to regular Mr. Butler and come into his own.

This trope and the heroines actions, made this one hard for me to enjoy. I am eager to continue the Duke Hunt with the next book in the series!

The Duke Goes Down by Sophie Jordan is scheduled to release June 27th, 2021.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from HarperCollins Publishers, Avon Books through Edelweiss+. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

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