#F!nat pippin

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My god those thighs....

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☝I'm getting tired of PB using the same 2-3 blonde hairstyles for male MCs. It feels like we haven't gotten anything new in ages. Besides, that particular long blonde hair clearly wasn't made for that body type as it looks very misplaced.

Like... come on, PB! I know you're poor af right now but you have a huge f@©king back catalogue with 7 f@©king years worth of assets. Put it to good use and stop recycling the same couple hairstyles (and faces) ffs! Below are some examples I've put together:

(the last one is a recolored Nat Pippin's (TDA) hair to show there's more possibilities with a few quick tweaks)

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Just some Georgian sapphic moments! ❤️ ⚢ ❤️

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Duchess Liraz (mc) x Natalie Pippin

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Well...you look like my next mistake 😍

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Lol, protect Francis at all costs! I'd encourage Mr. Bitmore's antics.

Thats my ride or die bestie right there!

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This all would have been very romantic and I would have been swooning if we already had sex before the fallout in the last chapter. But now it just feels like Nat is realizing, "hey, if I don't tell mc what she wants to hear, I'm not going to be able to get up under her skirts." It's very low stakes for Nat either way, tell mc you have feelings for her, remind her that your time with her is numbered and that you two should just enjoy what time you have left and leave with another notch on your bed post without any consequences 🙄. I hate to say this, and you won't hear this from me often but I think mc and the LI should have banged sooner.

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Oh god that face she made! It's almost as good as Annabelle Parsons puppy dog look!

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🥰🥰🥰

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Finally finished The Duchess Affair. I rate it a ehh/10

It started off a strong note, I liked the sapphic self discovery of mc and a f!Nat Pippin. The fact that not only is the affair forbidden because mc is married and the class differences that stand between them, they're both women, which makes it even more poignant. But then all the smut scenes kind of wore me down. It didn't feel like a true connection was built between the mc and the LI. It felt like the only thing keeping them interested in each other is the fact that it was forbidden.

I don't really mind smut, especially if it's written well, and it was written well in TDA, but the writers tend to have a hard time writing a smut book and balancing the smut with actual genuine connection between the characters. That balance can be hard to achieve with the usual 16 chapters. Which is why they tend to cut some of the smut out of the plot driven books so they can focus on plot, but since most smut books are 21 or so chapters, they really don't have an excuse. I know this complaint isn't new or original but I guess I want to reiterate that it's not the fact that it's a smut book that gets on my nerves, it's just that I feel most of pb writers are either not very good writers or are just lazy and only care about pleasing their readers that are really only here for the smut.

And then the whole fight between mc and Nat when mc was worried about saving her sister's reputation really irked me. When Nat saw how worried mc was she immediately proposition sex and then got mad when mc rejected her. Even choosing the more polite dialogue, Nat gets mad and storms off.

We get an apology but then immediately mc's husband discovers the affair and the duel takes place. The teary love confessions and heart wrending angst would have been much more powerful if there had been any connection or any substance to mc and Nat's relationship. Sure a lot of things Nat was saying was pretty and swoon worthy, but for the entire book Nat is so one dimensional with no real personality besides "her charming, mischievous smile" and her experienced worldly woman vibe, it made all the love confessions fall flat at the end.

I feel like if they had just took out the scene where mc and Nat watched the deer fucking and getting off riding on a horse and made the 2 scenes diamond scenes to just talk and connect, it would have made it a lot better. But then again watching animals mating isn't a kink of mine, so what do I know?