![]() ![]() The Runaway Duke has issues including heavy plotting, an unbelievable false identity (no one would volunteer to be Irish at that time in British history), and the story does goes on a bit however, all of the elements that would develop into Long’s signature style are present: wonderful humour, clever writing, charming central characters, and, yes, the fact that maybe, sometimes, I don’t know, I’m just saying, she can be a skooch twee. I knew going in that this would not be of the current quality I expect of Julie Anne Long. I mentioned in a review of another author that I often find a writer and think that she shows promise only to discover that she has already published a lot of books. In The Runaway Duke, the two take it on the lam when the villain mistakenly compromises the wrong Tremaine sister, Rebecca, and she is going to be forced into a reputation saving marriage. Through a convenient and maguffiny series of Napoleonic War events, Conor Riordan, fifth Duke of Dunbrooke, has shucked off his title and is living incognito as an Irish groom at the home of the novel’s rather young heroine Rebecca Tremaine. ![]() ![]() The Runaway Duke is one of her earliest novels and I read it for back catalogue completion purposes only. ![]() Julie Anne Long has written a classic historical romance, What I Did for a Duke two excellent ones, A Notorious Countess Confesses and It Happened One Midnight a rather delightful novella, To Love a Thief and an assortment of very enjoyable books in her Pennyroyal Green series. ![]()
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