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alayna017's review against another edition
5.0
Loved loved loved this book! I’m sad I can’t give it more stars!
This is a story that you probably think has been told before, but it’s turned on it’s head. Kitty knows she must marry well to make sure she and her 3 sisters have a home, and she knows that love is out of the question.
The deal she strikes with Lord Radcliffe was so perfect. I love she was so unapologetic about what she was doing, securing her future the only way she could. Kitty was not going to let down her family no matter what she had to sacrifice.
I loved the progression of their relationship and how they were able to be honest, when the rest of society just danced around it!
This is a book that I will read again and again, and Sophie Irwin might be an auto-buy!
This is a story that you probably think has been told before, but it’s turned on it’s head. Kitty knows she must marry well to make sure she and her 3 sisters have a home, and she knows that love is out of the question.
The deal she strikes with Lord Radcliffe was so perfect. I love she was so unapologetic about what she was doing, securing her future the only way she could. Kitty was not going to let down her family no matter what she had to sacrifice.
I loved the progression of their relationship and how they were able to be honest, when the rest of society just danced around it!
This is a book that I will read again and again, and Sophie Irwin might be an auto-buy!
mozzare11a's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
priya_amrev's review against another edition
2.0
Thinking about it again I wish the romance was a little more fleshed out. Like I want to see the reactions from his end that show he’s starting to fall for her
unsweetener's review against another edition
3.75
Kitty is the oldest of five orphaned sisters who have bills to pay and no money to pay them. Rather than lose their home and scatter to find work that they'd inevitably be terrible at, Kitty, who is a good looking pragmatist, takes her nerdiest sister to London to catch a rich husband. She wins over a prime candidate and his mother almost immediately, but his brother Radcliffe comes to stop her. He has very minor Daddy issues and just enough trauma from Waterloo to keep him from enjoying parties but nothing really disruptive.
Radcliffe makes a big show of being scandalized by Kitty's gold digging and blackmails her to stay away from his brother while also agreeing to help her catch a more mediocre man, which she does. They bond over their siblings' lack of common sense and a general inability to leave each other alone until they decide they are in love with each other, actually.
This book is a Pride and Prejudice mad lib; the prose is Austen-esque and shares a lot of the same dynamics, but tweaked very slightly. It suffers for being similar in so many ways, because it's obviously impossible to live up to the source material. I didn't quite believe the chemistry between the main characters, and they were both a little boring?. Still, it was an enjoyable listen (Eleanor Tomlinson narrates, and she is great).
Radcliffe makes a big show of being scandalized by Kitty's gold digging and blackmails her to stay away from his brother while also agreeing to help her catch a more mediocre man, which she does. They bond over their siblings' lack of common sense and a general inability to leave each other alone until they decide they are in love with each other, actually.
This book is a Pride and Prejudice mad lib; the prose is Austen-esque and shares a lot of the same dynamics, but tweaked very slightly. It suffers for being similar in so many ways, because it's obviously impossible to live up to the source material. I didn't quite believe the chemistry between the main characters, and they were both a little boring?. Still, it was an enjoyable listen (Eleanor Tomlinson narrates, and she is great).
rosellaistrying's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
hangalgansa's review against another edition
3.0
desperately needed a slow burn, and this done delivered <3
ending was vv anti-climatic tho :(
ending was vv anti-climatic tho :(
shadeslayer327's review against another edition
5.0
This book was actually really entertaining and I quite enjoyed it
jureader's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
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? Yes
5.0