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You know what? This book was actually quite a lot of fun to read/listen.
It is written in a captivating way, not boring, not overly cheesy, it is sweet and humorous and at predictable, yes. But it's heartwarming and nice.

There is a nice game of will they won't they for the most part of the book that is quite amusing. You can't help but smile while you read it and I like that. I like a book that makes me smile.

koehneisland's review

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5.0

This book is everything I've ever wanted in a romance, truly. It's so wonderful to realize "oh, this is going to be my new favorite" as you're experiencing a story for the very first time, and this book gave me exactly that. The situation, the pairing, the resolution were all perfect. And it's a very sexy book, despite whatever impression the whimsical cover might give you!

onceuponanisabel's review against another edition

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2.0

thepenultimategirl's review

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2.0

Partially my fault that I didn’t enjoy it because I knew I didn’t love the first in the series. There were so many plot points that were introduced that could have made the book so much more interesting if they weren’t put on the pack burner for two hundred pages.

ljrousse's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

smiley7245's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

I liked this more than the first book. It was a bit second chance romance, a bit friends and enemies to lovers. This focuses on Lucy, who while important to the cause does not play a huge part in book one (aside from letting Annabelle live with her for a bit), and Tristan, someone she has known since childhood.

We get more of Lucy's backstory; she joined the cause and it led to her estrangement from her family. He is younger than she is and he has been infatuated with her since they were children. Now, with the help of her friends she has raised enough money to buy a publishing house, so they can start putting suffrage materials out to the public, but unbeknownst to her, he buys the other shares and now they have to work together. Also, the biggest book from this publishing house is a book of anonymous love poems that he just happened to write, and he wants to re-release with his name attached. Meanwhile, he is trying to gather a lot of money quickly so he can take his mother and run away to India; his older brother died making him the heir and his mother is not taking it well. Not only that, his father is a tyrant, and he fears he may hurt his mother to get back at him. In fact, he uses his mother as a way to force Tristan to rehabilitate his reputation or he will ship her off to an asylum. Also, he has picked out who Tristan will wed at the end of those 3 months. That turns out to be Lucy's cousin, who is being doted on by Lucy's mother. Annabelle holds a house party because Prince Albert wants to come hunting and Lucy and Tristan both end up there, and they dance scandalously close. Then, suffrage pamphlets get distributed and of course Lucy gets blamed, but her friends rally around her. She wants control of the publishing house and Tristan says he will sell her a share if she shares his bed. She puts him off for a while then finally agrees. And they become lovers. Fast forward, she asks him to go to the fair with her and he says no; he goes with his almost betrothed instead because his mother is missing and he thinks Lucy's mother might be able to help him find her since they were friends. But, he never gets a chance to talk to her. Then Lucy spots them together and she leaves. He follows. They are together all night, but the almost betrothed runs away, cries in a boathouse, and is seen leaving way after curfew wearing his coat. So he ends up at Lucy's parents house about to be married to someone he doesn't want when Lucy shows up to save him. Except the cousin is trying to pretend like something happened, but while she knows of his tattoo and it's location she doesn't describe it correctly and her ruse is over. Then, her father demands that Tristan marry Lucy and she says no because she's not getting married until the Married Women's Property Act is passed. But, they do get engaged and continue being lovers until, according to the afterward, the Act is passed two years later.

This was funnier than the previous book. Also, it was nice to see the woman as the older partner in the relationship, by 2.5 years. The epilogue did a good job of setting up the next book and I am looking forward to it (more than I was this one).

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