“Disappear!” Katie made a disparaging noise. But Nellie wasn’t having it-she didn’t wanna join the dreaded aristocracy till one of Shupe’s delicious former heroines, Katie, enlightened her.

Couldn’t they see the damage being inflicted on them?Īnd Lockwood? Well, I thought he was an asshole, but a quarter of the way into this book, I fell flat on my ass in love with him. They weren’t interested in changing things for the better, only maintaining the status quo.

And yet, so many women were willing to perpetuate it. Such a precarious world in which women lived, one that was utterly and wholly controlled by men. Shupe pokes hard at the women that enable the patriarchal abuses forced upon all of us that confine us to little more than chattel and keep us regressed. How can you not love and worship a woman that writes sentences like that!?! She quite liked the idea of thwarting recreational semen from taking purchase in wombs all across Manhattan. Nellie aka Eleanor is by far one of my favorite heroines ever with her social justice pursuits and demands of thwarting the pious, fascist, and oppressive reproductive cruelties that enslave all people and belted out by the ugly, bigoted, simpleminded, fanatics that pander to their maladjusted religion-the patriarchy. With Eleanor, in all four books, Shupe appeals to the rebellious, independent Irish-American girl in me. Shupe creates and dispatches these stories with a sublime emotional zeal. With The Duke Gets Even she proves it.Īs with any series, the characters in each book reveal layers, ultimately unveiling aspects of personalities and the complicated fundamentals of relationships and histories leading to emotionally vulnerable moments, and passion that will make you sweat.

Shupe can write and she’s the best writer of erotica I have ever read. Whatever, I did not care because I knew how I was going to spend my week and weekend-rereading Shupe’s entire The Fifth Avenue Rebels Series and I did-one a day, every glorious day. Just after midnight on Tuesday last as I was finishing up Lorraine Heath’s Waking Up With the Duke and London’s Greatest Lovers series (review forthcoming), my Kindle synced and BOOM-a new Joanna Shupe novel plopped into my feed like a bomb and I squealed like a little boy, most likely waking my entire neighborhood. The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe (Amazon Link)

The duke gets even by joanna shupe