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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
High society, swashbuckling adventure, women’s rights and a dash of romance? Be still my soul! This book has everything. The first book in this series single-handedly reignited my love of reading that has been dormant for a decade. This one is darker than the first but every bit as wonderful. I’m always game for feisty feminist historical fiction. I adore Gus, Julia, Kent and Evan and can hardly wait for the adventure to continue!
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A huge major improvement, also there is no way there isn't a third book given the ending. Can't wait to see it, given how it ties everything up together and a final adventure. Also, it was a wonderful tale, filled with wonder, adventure, Augusa getting a reality check, Julia showing that she isn't just the nice twin after all. I really like this series, centering what are middle aged women, and the sort of advantages that definitely come because they're past their prime, they don't need a husband, have independence and aren't just fading away to sit in drawing rooms all day. They could do that, or this, but at their age no one is going keep house, and yet, they're such wonderful delightful women who still live and love despite it.
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed this book but I’m so sad we don’t get more time of the main heroine and hero together. I was shocked when I got to the end of the book and didn’t have a solid resolution. Needless to say, I am eagerly awaiting the next release!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture, Murder
Minor: Rape
I love this series, I love this author. I want a tv show!!!
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
dark
slow-paced
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
I was really excited for this sequel as I very much enjoyed the first book, and while I didn’t love this as much as the first, I still quite enjoyed it! I think my main disappointment is that it didn’t keep the format of the first book where Augusta and Julia have “cases” to solve (i.e. help women and children in need). This book has mostly 2 plot lines: A continuation of their last cast in the first book—helping Lady Hester and her lover Miss Grant—and investigating the duel that condemn Evan (Augusta’s love) to a life of prison/crime. Those two things aren’t bad and there are actually several sequences that were exciting and even tense (the chapters covering Augusta and Evan’s search of a seedy sex club where women might be murdered were especially good), it’s just that I really enjoyed the format of the first book. Nevertheless, it was still an exciting ride! Perhaps, too exciting overall even. The book is non-stop action and conflict it feels at time, with very little time to breathe in between or have calmer, meaningful scenes between characters. Towards the end, it felt like the book was doing a little bit Too Much, veering into over the top territory. I would have like that to be toned down somewhat to leave more space for scenes of sisterhood and female friendships and/or romance. That’s me second complaint but the rest I loved. Augusta is still such a great character and POV (she annoyed me in here but, like, not in a bad way, but more in a ‘this is character growth’ way), and I still very much love the balance between her personality and Julia’s. I also really appreciate the historical details. For all their romance and adventure, these books are darker than your average historical romance it feels—they deal with lots of heavy subject, especially concerning women. But also they have great unromantic details like the dirtiness and stinkiness of London’s streets, the way lower classes live etc. I am not knowledgeable enough to say if all of it is accurate but it certainly feels like it or at the very least it offers the novels a certain level of reality amongst all the hijinx and life threatening situations. I am looking forward to the third book.