Bedding Lord Ned (Duchess of Love, #1)

by Sally MacKenzie

[Amanda]

This book made me feel like a crotchety old woman yelling, "Get off my lawn, you little cretins!" Except instead of kids on my lawn, it's old people fornicating in my book.

(Pause a second. I have no issue with old people having sex. Sometimes you have to say things for effect.)

A few scenes -- a few sexy scenes are not of Ned and Ellie, our protagonists. No, they're of the Duke and Duchess of Love. Who already have an established relationship and their own novella.

(Which I read twice. Accidentally. Which I didn't think could happen, but apparently it can.)

And you know what? Those scenes didn't do anything to add to Ned and Ellie's story. I wanted more Ned and Ellie. Because it was one of those stories where I didn't quite get enough of either character to fully get attached to either. Ned was dense, both about his first wife and Ellie. Ellie was... I don't know. No idea why she'd loved Ned for so long.

THAT SAID. I admit it was a cute story, and I like the meddling duchess. I'm kind of curious about what happens with Ned's brothers. But also the meddling duchess. Minus the meddling duchess's sex scenes. Not because old people sex is gross, but because it's gotta matter to the story.