Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Release Date: April 5th 2022
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Look, it is “Mean Girls” regency-style, almost word for word and scene for scene. I don't necessarily think that is a bad thing, I love the genre, but all together this book just didn’t do it for me. The characters are smart, funny and diverse, but the development falls apart in that none of them grow past teen drama on screen (with the exception of a few majorly out of character grand gestures), even though this is the marriage mart among titled gentry. This gives the book a distinctly YA feel (which again, is a genre I love), but not quite. There is enough sex, drugs and rock n’ roll to make this an adult romance, but the characters translate as highschoolers which ruins the effect a little. I won’t classify it as a “don’t read,” however making it a little less juvenile, or to make it distinctly about adults, would improve the novel.
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