This week's book:
Bringing Down the Duke
By Evie Dunmore
I read this week's book a few weeks ago, but I wanted to do all spooky/Halloween books for the month of October, and I also wanted to write this review closer to the election.
A lot of people had shared that they loved this historical romance, even if they didn't love romance novels. This book is the story of a suffragette and her friends working to get the women's vote in England. She tries to work with a Duke so he will back women voting; he is opposed to the idea. Then, of course, they fall in love and the rest is history.
I had a hard time connecting to the plot, perhaps because I had a constant loop of Mrs. Banks from the original Mary Poppins singing "Sister Suffragette" in my head the whole time I was reading the book. As romance novels go it was... meh? It was okay I guess, just not my favorite.
Why I wanted to post this around the election was that it is one hundred years ago that women got the right to vote in America. This year (really ever time really) it is so important to vote. Women fought and died for the right to vote, so go out and vote.
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