*An ARC was given in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the writer and the publisher for the opportunity to read this.* 
 DNF@50%. I'm sorry, but this was just boring. It had a few flashes of entertainment--like when Nathaniel's brothers played a prank of him at the beginning--but that was it. I waited and waited for something--for ANYTHING--to happen but nothing did. 
 This was just a story of Violet, a girl whose life was controlled by her pernicious grandmother, and how she eventually got her freedom once she married Nathaniel, the future Duke of... something. I don't see why this has to be 300+ long; the story barely held my interest the first 100 pages. And it didn't help that a doornail had more personality than Violet and Nathaniel combined. At least Nathaniel's brothers were relatively more interesting. Sigh. What I disliked the most, though, was how this whole story seemed revolve around the grandmother and not on the central characters. Hell, they even had to mention her a few times during their honeymoon. 
 I cringe. 
 While the writing was fairly passable, the story was not even remotely interesting. I'm not inclined to continue reading this, and have no plans to do so in the future.