Anne E ♡ emo + OTT Hs's Reviews > The Sins of Lord Lockwood

**SPOILERS under Sexual History**

DNF @ 34% after H&h's 1st sex scene. I was ready to DNF around 13% but I continued on to see if it'd get better. But found myself getting sleepy and bored every time I'd pick it back up.

First 2 chapters were promising but didn't like h's character and H was only meh. Wealthy Scottish virgin h was a know-it-all virago/harridan type of heroine I don't like. Chapters 3 & on goes back & forth from present to 3.5 years ago, when H&h first met. h was a little general who managed her Scottish properties with acumen and organization. She was very much a business woman in their 19th-century UK world. She was much wealthier and more alpha than H.

H was beta when he met h 3.5 years ago and not quite as beta in the present time and more mysterious. However, he secretly blamed h for part of his torturous years of being kidnapped in a convict ship to Australia. He kept secretly whining & complaining in his POV that h should've reported him missing to the authorities and not have gone back to Scotland, even though he acknowledged that she had no way of knowing that he was abducted. She thought that he abandoned her to travel the world (due to the huge withdrawals from her bank account & her witnessing him walking out of their honeymoon ship after their wedding) or dead (as H's cousin insisted H was). He was miffed that she didn't search the world for him but instead went back to Scotland.

Overall writing was ok. I've enjoyed most Duran books I've read, such as The Duke of Shadows, Fool Me Twice, and A Lady's Lesson in Scandal. But the S chemistry, emotional chemistry, and romance was just lacking in this one. The only sex scene I read was awkward and unexciting and summed up my overall reading experience of this book. So, I stopped.

Sexual History:
No idea if early-20s virgin h was kissed by any OM before meeting H. She was attracted to H and was turned on by him and looked forward to their wedding night. But he disappeared before then, after she saw him walking out of their honeymoon ship and never contacted her by letter or messenger the next 3.5 years. When she found out he was back in London the last 8 months, she stormed into the London house he bought with her money and insisted he get her pregnant with an heir since she didn't want her family inheritance to pass on to some relative. H wanted them to have separate residences and lives in general since he secretly wanted to spare her the knowledge of his kidnapping & torture. He did agree to having sex with her to give her the baby she wanted. But H insisted that they have sex with her blindfolded and her hands bound since he didn't want her seeing the scars concealed with his clothing. She agreed and H devirginized her in that manner. He only lasted a few pumps before he orgasmed since he was still very attracted to her and he'd been celibate since meeting her.

H was sexually experienced and likely with prostitutes. No mention of mistresses. When he came back to London, there were plenty of willing women (prostitutes?) around but he coudln't stand being touched by them and had no sexual desires due to his PTSD from his kidnapping-torture. But seeing her again revived his sexuality.