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reviews_and_ramblings ([personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2007-10-05 11:54 pm

The Duke's Husband by Mychael Black & Shayne Carmichael

Like an old classic novel, Dev and Jay are young and beautiful and their love is written on the stars, but the world is against them... and not because Jay is a Duke and rich and Dev is from the middel class and only of average wealth, and not becuase Jay is almost thirty and Dev is only nineteen, and not because Jay is a little snob and Dev dislike all the glamour... but becuase Jay and Dev are both men. So the only thing they have in common is also the one that could be tear them apart!

Jay's mother wants that her son marries a good and rich girl and gives her nephews and nieces. But Jay has eyes only for Dev, from the first moment he spots him in his house. And when you are rich and young everything is possible. So Jay, when Dev leaves after some week of young and perfect love, follows him to America and asks him to marry. They fly in Canada and get married. But the old family house of Dev they choose as home is haunted and someone doesn't want for them to stay together...

A very interesting story, born as a romantic comedy and ended like a suspence thriller. For my romantic side in everything, I have liked more the romantic comedy part: the young american who wants to stay "virgin" till he will meet the man of his life... and the debauched duke who agrees to only have some heavy petting for the privilege to be with him... it's like an old movie with rock hudson and doris day (and the choice of rock hudson is not a random pick...)

An unusual book in the Phaze catalouge who lately seems to have some very interesting authors among them.

http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=The+Duke%27s+Husband+by+Mychael+Black+and+Shayne+Carmichael

Amazon: The Duke's Husband

Reading List:

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[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2007-10-06 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Like My Fair Captain by J.L. Langley. Did you read that book?

[identity profile] sl-carmichael.livejournal.com 2007-10-06 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I didn't. Somebody did do an alternate timeline? Hmmm, perhaps I should consider an alternate timeline Georgian.

I remember reading a book a long time ago. Don't recall the name. A young girl's diary that followed the line that Princess Charlotte never died. It was written as if it were a real diary, and in the end, the young writer's ramblings were attributed to addiction to laudanaum. It was a fascinating book.

[identity profile] elisa-rolle.livejournal.com 2007-10-06 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
In My Fair Captain (you can find my pill review under J.L. Langley tag) she imagine a futurist regengy planet where men has managed to procreate only sons (mixing the DNA of the two fathers) and men can't have sex until they will marry. It's very funny, like all the book by J.L. Langley. elisa

[identity profile] sl-carmichael.livejournal.com 2007-10-06 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
*puts that on the TBR list* Thanks for the recommend on it.

[identity profile] sydmcginley.livejournal.com 2007-10-10 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Please do!
I love georgian and m/m and Alternate reality.

I love when you and Myc write together.

[identity profile] mychael-black2.livejournal.com 2007-10-10 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww...*grins* Thank ya. :)