I love her compassion for animals and her determination to see the best in people, which is relatively constant even when the Rook kidnaps her and she sees how he has changed.Īs for the over-arching themes of the series, the identity of the Rook also further whetted my appetite for more of the series, as Carlton Morley’s connection with him was revealed, which was a truly jaw-dropping revelation. Lorelai, meanwhile, is yet another awesome Kerrigan Byrne heroine. While his identity is who I expected, this revelation allowed me to feel a bit more for him as more about his story became fleshed out, and while it’s still the loathed (in my opinion) “villain was redeemed through love” trope, it was made up for through the fact that the epilogue shows in a small way that it is a process to adapt to being a normal, lovingperson and not a possessive, boorish lover every time another man touches his wife. Like Dougan/Dorian, the Rook took a long time to grow on me, with me feeling horrible for him at the beginning, then wanting to smack him when he kidnaps Lorelai out of some long-held obsession with her and nearly sexually assaults her, something that feels very Old School and something i would have avoided like the plague if 1) I wasn’t familiar with Byrne’s writing style, and 2) I wasn’t so dang curious as to who the Rook was meant to be, as there was this sense of buildup over the last few books.Īnd I definitely wasn’t disappointed in that regard. The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo had a lot of the same issues for me as The Highwayman, which is fitting since the plots are very similar. The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo. New York: St.
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