My Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩
This book was what I would call a mis-pack historical romance. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it (which is good because she is a long one!), and will be continuing the series, but I wouldn't call it a great read.
I really enjoyed:
- The why-choose aspect-love triangles/quadrilaterals are silly, a girl should get to keep all the hot suitors they desire.
- House party setting-one of my favorite tropes in historicals, the opportunity for hijinks is endless
- The slow-burn- I am not usually a fan, but here it works
- The lack of HEA-rarely does a series leave in a genuine cliff-hanger, but Rath went for it. We shall see if it pays off, but I liked it.
What left me cold:
- We get it, she is not like all the other vapid girls, she doesnt know she is pretty, all other women are awful and she is witty perfection. Great.
- She is also so independent and knows not of the ways of men, but also flirts non-stop and falls for every pretty face and tragic backstory that rolls by-look, this main character is not my favorite.
- The men are a trio of archetypes who will all abandon all facets of their character for one hot lady in an unconventional polycule.
- So far, no "sword crossing," this is going to be hard to sustain if 75% of the group are not attracted to each other. We have broken down all historical social structure here, so why not go for it.
I suspect this series will be like how I read ACOTR, it is not great and I don't enjoy the characters, but somehow I will read all the dictionary-length tomes and have a blast doing it.
Published on 29 July 2025 by Kensington Publishings
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