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- Content warnings: Sexism, Misogyny, Forced marriage, Child abuse (referenced), Slut shaming
Portrait of a Scotsman
by Evie Dunmore
Book 3 in A League of Extraordinary Women
Dunmore makes you feel the full weight of what it meant to be a woman with no legal personhood - and then lets the brooding Scotsman soften without losing his edge
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Length448 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice3/5 · Slow seduction
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Enemies to lovers
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Slow seduction
- Book hangover
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- Brooding prince
- Class difference
- Passionate / intense
- The angst delivered
- Dark/tortured soul
- Grumpy sunshine
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Redemption arc
- Morally gray
- Power imbalance
- Slow burn with late spice
- Tension finally satisfied
- Secretly soft
- He falls first
- Tension / anticipation focus
- The swoon
- Self-made man
- Rivals to lovers
- Longing glances
- Expanded empathy
- Redemption romance
- Tension
- Anticipation
- Eye contact intensity
- Jaw holding / face cupping
- Neck kisses / neck touching
Fantasy promise
- Historical romance
- Forced to marry
- Manor house / estate
- Historical
- Humans only
- Marriage of convenience
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- Mountain / highlands
- Regency/victorian
- Big city / metropolis
- Forced proximity
- Beauty and the beast
- Road trip romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Brooding
- Lyrical
- Moderate
- Artist/creative
- Romantic
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- Atmospheric
- Reluctant hero
- Dramatic
- Sharp
- Ambitious schemer
- Emotional
- Innocent / sheltered
- Intense
- Character-driven
- Angsty
- Literary
- Witty
- Swoony
- Yearning
- Reluctant Victorian bride
- Scottish highlands
- Suffragette activism
- Coal mining justice
- Hades and Persephone
- Feminist historical
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Book details
- Length
- 448 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book