“Tall, Duke, and Scandalous” by Amy Rose Bennett is the third and seemingly final book in The Byronic Book Club series and I thought this was the best of the trio.

I liked the way Jane Delaney was portrayed, her history, and her development as a character.
I thought Christopher Marsden, the Duke of Roxby was an intriguing character perhaps a little under-developed.

I’ve read a lot of stories with secrets and blackmail as plot devices, so I was slightly annoyed this was used again by Bennett especially when these same tropes were used in the earlier books.

For some reason, the first two entries in this series rubbed me the wrong way. They were well-written, and I went into each novel completely engaged with the ideas and plots, but eventually things began to unravel a bit. This is not to say the books were bad, I think it comes down to personal preferences, and the first two ultimately fell a bit flat for me.

If you loved the first two books in this series, I think Jane’s tale will be a highly satisfying end to the three friends’ stories.

I received an ARC of this story from NetGalley and the publisher, but the review is my own. 3.5/5

I would like to thank netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS Casablanca for a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

An enjoyable end to the trilogy.

I've loved each book in the Byronic Book Club and this addition was no different.

I think what I enjoyed the most about this book was the characters. I absolutely adored and rooted for Jane. She was resourceful, clever and very likeable. Christopher was the epitome of stern brunch daddy energy. He was grumpy but also worshipped the heroine? Yes please! The romance is magnificent too. I couldn't get enough of their banter (entertaining and fiery). Plus the dirty talk? When the Duke said, "wrap those legs around me, I'm about to make you mine"?!? I mean.....*needs fan pronto*.

The plot is a bit predicable but entertaining.

Read this, you'll thank me later.

"I don't give a toss what you wear to our wedding. You can turn up in a potato sack for all I care. And you haven't seen demanding yet, you gorgeous, damnable wench," he mut-tered, pressing his hips against hers, crushing her skirts. "Or perhaps I should say 'witch,' because you do indeed have me transfixed and I'm utterly aching with the need to have you."
A very very very intense spicy regency romance book in the Byronic Club series !!!!! After book one and two I thought I couldn’t get better … I must have been mistaken because Lucy and Artemis’ story was great … but Jane and Christopher here … WOW !!! They were magnificent !!!!! He is the perfect hot, handsome and a bit demanding MMC with his dark past and trauma and endless love for her. And Jane … the spinster we all want to be especially if it means being so aware and accepting of our own bodies with its imperfections and unique traits !!! Her scar doesn’t define her and her past mistake doesn’t mean she’s not perfect for this horribly handsome duke who has a hard time remove the faces of those he knows and loves !!!! Their journey was one about learning to trust someone else and rely on them to help you during your darkest times. But also a story about passion, love and very very spicy times !!!! I loved every second of it !!!!
"Wrap those spectacular legs around me, love," he murmured. "I'm about to make you mine."
"There's something about you, Jane, that has brought me to life again. For the first time in a very long time, I have hope."

Jane loves her family connection to a bookstore but worries about her mothers gambling and debts. She is desperate and attempts to take a rare book from Christopher the Duke in order to sell it. He encounters her and thwarts her theft despite his deficit of being unable to recognize faces. However he knows her features perhaps due to her scar. Their lives become entangled and they marry while Jane helps to walk him through social circumstances due to his deficit. Someone is also trying to kill him and they are placed in danger while they try to determine the culprit.
An engaging story about two people doing the best they can to deal with each other and falling in love.
The third story in a series which just keeps getting better.

An emotionally entangling, romance lead tale to wallow in!

Bennett is a marvel, instantly hooking me in everytime with her well-deep, bursting with intrigue and enticingly multifaceted characters, where I can't wait to peel back, expose and saver each layer.
The wit, intellect and instinctual draw to like her scintillating partnerships, who are so heady with intense physical attraction and compatibility, from their first chemistry simmering meet, always pull me in... and I do love a dark, tome filled library to set the scene and enflame such stimulatingly delicious possibilities! Where as a result, I was quickly, compelled in want, to intimately get to know them and unravel their every secret, vulnerability and desire and Christopher and Jane didn't disappoint.
They had this depth of dazzling radiance, compassion and easy comradery were you want their marriage of convenience to gradually expose and entice stronger feelings, as you burn with curiosity and the tension they create, as you pray for them to reveal their secrets, soothe each others crippling insecurities and just plain enjoy beng apart of every second they share together.
Then when you add a mysterious threat to life, a splattering of secrets to crumble their fragile blossoming connection and intensify their vulnerabilities with a spot of blackmail, a disabilitating impediment and building, ever changing, heightened emotions, while encasing it all in a setting that so clearly comes to life in your mind's eye, then your onto a winner and I'm not just hooked but irredeemably entangled and invested in their fates.
An emotionally gripping, sensually titillating and enticingly intriguing romance that, despite the possibility of being read as a standalone, will round of a fabulous series for those who have loved each member of the Byronic Book Club unconditionally and will leave you smiling with a heartwarmingly statisfying epilogue were all three unconventional, highly intelligent, ladies come together with their sexy as sin, besotted, husbands as they promise to remain intertwined until the last.
Just about to settle down and indulge in book 1, the only one I have yet to have the pleasure of reading, an oversight I will be fixing immediately... can't wait... loved it!

Jane Helena Delaney believes she will never marry after her accident which leaves her with a scar. She loves her grandfather's book story and hopes to own and run it one day. But she has another secret desire also.

As a member of the Byronic Book Club, her friend gather to read and discuss all the heroes in the gothic novellas they read as well as gossip with each other.

Her mother has put up her half of the book store as collateral for a gambling debt. So as Jane is the responsible person she must find a way to settle the debt to save her beloved book store and not let her grandfather find out.

In a desperate moment she happens by the Duke of Rocky townhouse. As he is famous for his wild drunken parties, Jane hopes to glee some gossip to sell to earn some extra money. What she finds is a collection of rare expensive books. Just one would clear her of all her troubles. Thinking no one is around she hikes up her skirts and straps the book to her leg with her stockings.

Unbeknownst to her, Christopher Marsden, the Duke himself is there watching and stops her. He can cause more issues for her but he asks something totally out of her thinking. He agrees to meet with her the next day to go over his request.

Christopher tells Jane all and then gives her the option but that no charges would be done either way. His secret is more damming than Jane's. He is hoping she will agree.

As things heat up and become more complicated will Jane agree or will she figure something else out? Will she have to reveal her secret or keep that to herself? Does Christopher's secret hurt her or him? Will they find that they are good together or not? Does she figure out how to pay off her mother's debt?

Find out all these answers in a very well though incoming story that will sweep you away to a world of suspense, intrigue, and family mischief. Visit with old friends and new as you traverse the theatre, Hyde Park, and the beloved bookstore. Get carried away on a journey that is exciting and whimsical

Jane and Christopher made a wonderful couple, although they frustrated me at times. I loved how self-aware and composed Jane was in the face of being blackmailed and in needing to cover her mother’s gambling debts. Then to find out that Jane wanted sex education for women just was the icing on the cake for me. I adored her character, and I loved Christopher’s too, but at a certain point I just wanted to yell at them to have a proper conversation. Everything resolved almost too neatly at the end, but it was a fitting ending to the series nonetheless.

Jane and Christopher were an evenly matched pair in matters of the heart. They were both scarred from their previous exploits in the art of love. When an opportunity presented itself before them, it reawakened feelings that were dormant for quite a while. I couldn’t put this book down until I reached the end. It held me captive within its steamy, hot, and sexy pages. It was delicious and very engaging.

I wanted to love this a lot more than I did. I didn't like all the having kids talk that occurred in the book which made me dislike it. I did like the main character though and I enjoyed that.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this. Jane is ok with the fact that she will never marry. When she meets the Duke he has a suggestion that may solve some of her problems. This was a quick read.

Oohhh this regency romance was absolutely perfect. It had me turning pages as fast as I could read them. I this was so good!! I couldn't put this down!
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I had a really good time reading the previous installment in the Byronic Book Club series (Curled Up with an Earl) so I was very excited to read Tall, Duke, and Scandalous. And it knocked it out of the park! This story really hit all the right notes in terms of story, characters, and a very hot romance.

The set up of Jane feeling a little down, and deciding to be a bit bold to solve some of her problems was a great set up for the book. And it pays off after it gets her into some trouble and she meets the Duke. However, the Duke’s reasoning for the Marriage of Convenience was a bit flimsy. I think a bit more from his POV on why he wanted to marry Jane would have helped. I really loved Jane as a character. She was so rational, independent and caring, and it was so exciting to read a character in historical romance that owned their sexuality even though she wasn’t that experienced. The scenes between them were very sexy, and not at all cringey. It was also really great to see the previous characters interwoven in such an authentic way. I really bought the women’s friendship and it’s always nice to see a strong group of female friends.

My only downside was that the mystery part of the story was a bit unsurprising. I kind of knew who ‘did it’ the minute they were introduced in the story, and was surprised it took the characters as long as it did to suspect them. Though by the end I liked how the mystery unfolded.

Overall this was such a great read and I’d highly recommend it!

Read and reviewed this Advanced Reader Copy from NetGalley.

I was extremely fortunate to receive an ARC of Tall Duke and Scandalous by the absolutely great Amy Rose Bennett via Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This is the third book in the Byronic Book Club series and what a book it is! A story full of suspense, intrigue and mystery. Jane Delaney, a self-declared spinster is left behind at a party and then purposefully enters the home of Christopher Marsden, the Duke of Roxby, so that she can get the inside scoop about some of the debauchery that goes on ar his parties. Their meeting turns out to be a way more entertaining encounter and what ensues is a remarkable story about trust and fear, love and confidence.

Two broken heart’s determined not to love again. Jane and Christopher both have gone through having their love and trust shattered and fight against falling in love. Theirs is a marriage of convenience with benefits for each party and no need for emotions but who could resist these two? This book is extremely well done. The story has plenty of twists and both Jane and Christopher have a battle they must get through. But they have to figure out they are always better together. Beautiful love story with plenty of heat!

4/5 stars for me. Christopher and Jane’s story’s starts as a marriage of convenience, two people who are attracted to each other and need each other’s help.

I very much enjoined this book’s steamy scenes. These two have both been denying themselves for long and now that they no longer have to they go at it.

The only reason I knocked it down a star is I thought the fight at the 3/4 way was a bit contrived. Other then that I was throughly entertained.

This is an exciting book, without the usual cliché of the libertine man and the virgin woman typical of Regency novels, but it is much more. The mystery part is well integrated and linked to the love story without ever becoming overbearing.HEA.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Amy Rose Bennett books are just so much fun!! I’ve been loving this series and was so excited to see Tall, Duke, and Scandalous up on NetGalley. I found Bennett with Up All Night with a Good Duke and really appreciated the humor and Byronic bookclub, both of which were gift wrapped for us in book three.

Jane was so real. I respect any character who recognizes that they need money and are willing to marry a reclusive and impossibly sexy duke to secure the bag. She was incredibly self aware and I just really really liked her. I was definitely scared because I don’t like blackmail and mooching family members, and while the inclusion of those elements didn’t make this my favorite book, they were actually resolved in ways I didn’t mind.

As previously mentioned, Christopher Marsden, The Duke of Roxbury was reclusive and impossibly sexy. He also posses the singularly hottest name in literature??? I found his story to be so fascinating because not only are there mysterious murder attempts, but one of the attempts also led to Roxbury developing facial blindness. But of course, he can’t remember any face (even his own) after looking away EXCEPT Jane’s.

Both of their situations at the beginning lead to a wonderful meet-crime (??) in a library and pretty quickly to marriage of convenience. I really loved how Jane helped him in little ways to understand who he was talking to, since he couldn’t recognize faces and if that was found out his title could be stripped or worse.

The third act was…interesting. I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t quite see his anger and hurt coming. I’m happy that he got to sit with his emotions and express them to Jane with her understanding, but something felt a bit off. Maybe it was resolved a bit too hastily? I guess by that time we were dealing with murder plots and blackmail, so I was a bit tired.

Overall, this one was a lot of fun. It wasn’t my favorite of the series, but it holds its own. The characters really spoke to me, even when the story got a bit bogged down or long. If Amy Rose Bennett writes it, I’ll definitely be reading it!

⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 🌶️🌶️.75*/5

*They got married pretty early, so the sex also started before 50%! There were a lot of scenes, but if I’m being super picky, a few could’ve been a bit longer and more detailed. They were still hot though, don’t get me wrong.


Thanks to the publisher for an eARC via NetGalley. All opinions are honest and my own.

Jane Delaney is caught stealing a valuable book by Christopher Marsden, Duke of Roxby, in order to pay off her mother’s gambling debts and her blackmailer. Christopher suffers from face blindness and someone is attempting to take his life. They enter into a marriage of convenience.

They’re two trouble souls who find love. There is romance and suspense which keeps you the pages.

Spinster Jane meets the Duke of Roxeby at a Scandalous party, they enter a marriage of convenience to help each other out.

An easy to read predictable story, down to the villain. I felt like there was no progression in the relationship, they seemed to have fallen and accepted each other from the very start. Jane's secret seemed contrived just for some conflict.

I enjoyed reading it, but probably wouldn't read it again.

Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.