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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
I must say, this was a wonderful little romance! Thank you very much to Sasha for the rec.
I love a good Victorian romance and this one took all the annoying tropes and did a 180. Group of misfit suffragists have to manipulate men and convince dukes to support women’s suffrage and maybe they fall in love on the way!
Can’t wait for the next installment
I love a good Victorian romance and this one took all the annoying tropes and did a 180. Group of misfit suffragists have to manipulate men and convince dukes to support women’s suffrage and maybe they fall in love on the way!
Can’t wait for the next installment
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
tense
medium-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
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-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
I skipped love island to read this and it was worth it
It was a cute book for sure and I liked it, but it could’ve had more emotional connection bc all of a sudden it went from cute to smut and i started to lose interest.
It had a lot of potential for the cute slow burn type of thing to happen but it didn’t, and it was a little disappointing. I’m also disappointed that there were a couple moments there where I wasn’t sure she actually consented to anything, which was alarming.
The feminist part of the book wasn’t as central as the summary made it seem because it disappeared in the middle of the book when she was obsessing over the guy and popped back up again toward the end. Her feminist opinions on marriage from the beginning that made me like her a lot also kind of got lost as well.
It had a lot of potential for the cute slow burn type of thing to happen but it didn’t, and it was a little disappointing. I’m also disappointed that there were a couple moments there where I wasn’t sure she actually consented to anything, which was alarming.
The feminist part of the book wasn’t as central as the summary made it seem because it disappeared in the middle of the book when she was obsessing over the guy and popped back up again toward the end. Her feminist opinions on marriage from the beginning that made me like her a lot also kind of got lost as well.
It was cute! A tad slow in parts, but all around not bad. I like how you're able to leave it as a standalone, or as a book 1 in a duology. Its cute though.
Last read of 2019, and it was okay. Nothing wrong with the romance, I just think maybe I wasn't in a Duke mood right now. But, we all take audiobooks when it's our turn in the library queue and just hope we don't have a dozen of them all show up at the exact same time. That's some Sophie's Choice level drama, right there.
There are spoilers ahead!
1. I listened on audiobook, so I'm not sure if this issue was present in the print version or not, but there was some serious head-hopping going on. We're in a scene with Sebastian, we're clearly in his POV, and then, wham, insights from Annabelle's brain. Maybe in the paper copy, there was a scene break and it was clearly transitioned from his POV to hers. But some of them came so out of the blue in the middle of a scene. One jarring example was a scene with Sebastian and his brother (Peregine?), in which we jump into Peregrine's POV, and he'd never been a POV character before or after, but we were definitely in his head for some chunk of that scene. Before I started writing, I might not have noticed. Now I can't not see it. It's like, wait, whose POV is it? You back up to start the scene again, trying to trace it down . . . not a great audiobook experience as that kills your flow.
2. the other was medium agnostic and maybe personal, but I didn't think the external (or for that matter, internal) stakes were that high. He's single and eligible to get married. She's also single and eligible to get married. Oh, dukes usually marry fancier ladies. But, there weren't any rules against it. The Duke didn't have a huge hangup preventing another marriage. In fact, he was planning to get remarried, but didn't have the woman lined up just yet. And then, nothing changed to make that possible. No drastic sacrifice was required by either party. They could have just, um, done that and not sat around pining for each other and sneaking off into alcoves. And the big conflict about his support of the Tory party? That could have been a deal-breaker for Annabelle. But, it wasn't. She never said it was, that she couldn't marry him because he didn't support the suffragette cause. That idea, that she wouldn't be with him on principle, never crossed her lips or mind. I wish it would have. Instead, her only dealbreaker was that she wouldn't be his mistress. He wanted to get married, loved her, and didn't even need to change his political position to do it. The stakes didn't support the drama or the sacrifice.
Otherwise, it was well written. I enjoyed reading about the blue-stockings and the early days of female students at Oxford. I might put myself on a duke moratorium for a few months, as I had very little sympathy for this dude and his first world problems.
There are spoilers ahead!
Spoiler
I think what hung me up are two things:1. I listened on audiobook, so I'm not sure if this issue was present in the print version or not, but there was some serious head-hopping going on. We're in a scene with Sebastian, we're clearly in his POV, and then, wham, insights from Annabelle's brain. Maybe in the paper copy, there was a scene break and it was clearly transitioned from his POV to hers. But some of them came so out of the blue in the middle of a scene. One jarring example was a scene with Sebastian and his brother (Peregine?), in which we jump into Peregrine's POV, and he'd never been a POV character before or after, but we were definitely in his head for some chunk of that scene. Before I started writing, I might not have noticed. Now I can't not see it. It's like, wait, whose POV is it? You back up to start the scene again, trying to trace it down . . . not a great audiobook experience as that kills your flow.
2. the other was medium agnostic and maybe personal, but I didn't think the external (or for that matter, internal) stakes were that high. He's single and eligible to get married. She's also single and eligible to get married. Oh, dukes usually marry fancier ladies. But, there weren't any rules against it. The Duke didn't have a huge hangup preventing another marriage. In fact, he was planning to get remarried, but didn't have the woman lined up just yet. And then, nothing changed to make that possible. No drastic sacrifice was required by either party. They could have just, um, done that and not sat around pining for each other and sneaking off into alcoves. And the big conflict about his support of the Tory party? That could have been a deal-breaker for Annabelle. But, it wasn't. She never said it was, that she couldn't marry him because he didn't support the suffragette cause. That idea, that she wouldn't be with him on principle, never crossed her lips or mind. I wish it would have. Instead, her only dealbreaker was that she wouldn't be his mistress. He wanted to get married, loved her, and didn't even need to change his political position to do it. The stakes didn't support the drama or the sacrifice.
Otherwise, it was well written. I enjoyed reading about the blue-stockings and the early days of female students at Oxford. I might put myself on a duke moratorium for a few months, as I had very little sympathy for this dude and his first world problems.
funny
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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