{"id":5694,"date":"2016-02-27T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T00:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:41:14","slug":"the-duchess-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5694","title":{"rendered":"The Duchess War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Duchess War<\/a><\/em> (2012) Courtney Milan<\/a><\/p>\n

.\"The-Duchess-War\"<\/a>Set in England in 1863<\/p>\n

Another re-read, and although good, I don’t love it as much as the Countess Conspiracy<\/em>. But not for lack of trying on the part of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen this before. And it\u2019s really not my sort of thing.\u201d For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYour Grace,\u201d Stevens finally said, \u201cyour concern does you justice.\u201d The man\u2019s toad-eating did him none. <\/p>\n

Robert met Stevens\u2019s eyes. \u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh! Look! Sebastian!<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew perfectly well what you meant,\u201d Sebastian said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally and to perform it with flagrant obedience.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSebastian,\u201d Violet replied, calmly looping the yarn about one of her needles, \u201cit is neither proper nor respectful to let a woman know that you think of her as nothing more than a hole.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good story, but just not quite as good as my favorite.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Courtney Milan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Duchess War (2012) Courtney Milan .Set in England in 1863 Another re-read, and although good, I don’t love it as much as the Countess Conspiracy. But not for lack of trying on the part of the story. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen this before. And it\u2019s really not my sort of thing.\u201d For one thing, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[191,30,33,207,41,26,56],"tags":[50,719,128,729,212,557],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-british","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-brothers-sinister","tag-courtney-milan","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-ptsd","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1tQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24331,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24331","url_meta":{"origin":5694,"position":0},"title":"The Duchess War","author":"Michelle","date":"March 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Duchess War (2012) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #1) Set in Leicester, England in 1863 \u201cYour Grace,\u201d Stevens finally said, \u201cyour concern does you justice.\u201d The man\u2019s toad-eating did him none. 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