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Dame Durden's daughter

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I have enjoyed other books by Joan Smith and was liking this one as well until the end. In fact something bothered me so much, I actually signed up just to write this review.
I'm not sure you could call it a spoiler, but at the climax the hero SLAPS the heroine! And then SHE apologizes! He immediately apologizes to her as well, but it took the fun right out of everything and ruined my enjoyment of the ending. I feel that the context did not justify the action in anyway (not that violence is ever really justifiable).
I wish I had not bought this as an ebook so I could return it. As it is, I have no plans to read it again and may simply delete it.
Very disappointing. But I still recommend other regencies by Smith (Winter Wedding is my favorite - get that one instead!)

Duke Helver has known Dame Durden's daughter Edith all her life. To avoid a sticky unacceptable relationship, Dame Durden
encourange Edith to marry Doctor Thorne---who was not as wholesome a character has she had assumed...

Though not quite a Georgette Heyer, it nevertheless delivers more than the regular run-of-the-mill Regencies around. I think it's because most of her secondary characters are reasonably well conceived and written. I have also read another novel by the author, Imprudent Lady. I found Dame Durden's Daughter more interesting (had better-written interplay between various characters).