The Duke of Mondvale isn't called the Lord of Sin for no reason. He is a notorious libertine, the kind of man that she, with her already tarnished reputation, shall avoid. Yet Lady Constance Calydon still finds herself drawn to him, his charisma, his mysteriousness.

Lady Constance is the perfect instrument for the Duke of Mondvale's revenge against the man who ruined her sister. Even more, Lady Constance has made things easier for him because she responds to him. But what started out as a quest for vengeance became something more as he finds himself falling for Lady Constance. Later on, he has to make an inevitable decision: to ruin Lady Constance as his retaliation or to forget about it and just walk away.

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ARC received via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review but it didn’t affect my opinion about this book.

This book infuriated the hell out of me in a good way. For a book to be able to elicit such emotion from me, I think it's good because it makes the book unforgettable. I also found it a wonder how a book managed to make me react like I did with this one. 

With the characters, I just had to let this out. I HATE CONTANCE'S MOTHER. I know that she was only a secondary character, but damn, I was seething while reading her verbal exchanges with Constance when she implied that she should not be picky as to whom to marry. It was her goddamned fault that Constance had no choice! (See, what I'm talking about?)

I also felt that Constance lets Lucan get away with stuff easily. Twice. She forgave him right away. I was quite expecting her to let Lucan work really hard, if not crawl, after what he did to her. But all it took was a letter. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? A part of me wanted her to play hard to get but when I think about it, it's against Constance's nature to do. So I'll just concede because I really like Constance even if she seemed like a push over.

I still don't know why I like this book when all it did was annoy me. Perhaps it was my attachment to Constance. I felt the need to wrap her in a blanket and protect her from society because they've been really cruel to her. I think that's a very solid evidence that the writing got me. It was really emotional and I could actually feel Constance's grief when she was betrayed, when she was ostracized because of something that she didn't have a choice. Or Lucan's regret when he realized that the woman he loved got away.

Stacy Reid knows how to create something really great out of a plot that's considered really predictable and mediocre nowadays. 

Also, it would've done me good if I read the previous books of the series to really understand what happened. Nevertheless, I had immense fun reading this.