Reviews

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman

asiyahrana's review

As cute as this story was to read, it was sort of dry at the same time. I will hopefully come back to it though!

refrejarator's review

adventurous emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really loved this! Bridgerton but make it feminist, slow-burn, and about a wild spinster who doesn't take crap and her sweet twin sister.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Child death, Grief, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Excrement, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Infertility, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Violence

bberlanga's review

adventurous challenging lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

story_singer_101's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.0

heatherbrt's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

anicole5993's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

3.75

raindrops333's review against another edition

It was rather verbose and boring and thinking there would be so many more pages to finish it, just couldn't stomach it.

frogl8dy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

5.0

anhistorianabouttown's review

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was not what I was expecting but still thoroughly entertaining! Despite reading hundreds of mysteries, I don't know that I've read any broken up specifically into cases (within the same book), and I enjoyed it.

It was much darker than I expected, though. A tad gruesome in some places 

jol69's review

3.0

A bit of light hearted regency romance and intrigue. Fun for what it is. Likeable main characters. Somewhat predictable development with the characters. Overall a nice way to spend an afternoon or two.