My Last Duchess: A Wildes of Lindow Castle Prequel (The Wildes of Lindow Castle)

Ordered this for my wife and she enjoyed it. It was a quick easy read and well written. It is a good prequel to this series and fills in a lot of the background story. just wish it was a bit longer. Would have rated it 4.5 stars but rating doesn’t allow for half stars.

História interessante sobre uma família.

Nice to read the beginning of the Wilde stories :-)

But over way too soon. It was a pleasant surprise of a second story which also was over to soon.

I love most of Eloisa James’ books. She has a gift for creating believable characters, not only the main hero and heroine, but also the supporting characters as well. This is the sixth in the Wilde’s of Lindow Castle series, and is a prequel filling in the story of how Hugo, Duke of Lindow found happiness with his third wife.It is quite a short story, and I think it was a mistake to pad out the book with a glimpse of chapter 1 from the first of the series and with a short story from Eloisa’s Fairy Tales. I think I would have preferred, as other reviewers have said, for it to have been released as a novella, and maybe not charged £5.99 for it?However, I am giving it five stars because I loved Ophelia as a character, and I loved Hugo. Maybe because as an older reader, the idea of a sexy, handsome older man is more appealing now than it would have been in my twenties. Could it have been longer? Well, when I love a book, I don’t want it to end, so I wish there had been more, but I don’t think Eloisa pads out her plots just to do this unlike a lot of other authors do. The Frost Fair chapters were good, and taught me something about our own history that I hadn’t known. The story drew me in immediately, there was plenty of humour (of course), vignettes of the younger Wilde’s as children and teenagers and poignant glimpses of Horatius as a teenager.I am already missing reading about the family, and have pre-ordered the next in the series. Hopefully by March next year, Covid will be an unhappy memory, and reading that book will be a different experience than in this tier three lockdown.I do recommend this, but read the other books in the series first, otherwise a reader will find this puzzling, like coming into a film halfway through and driving your family mad by asking who that is? Or why are they doing that?