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A review by lassarina
Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan
5.0
This book is everything I've come to expect from Courtney Milan: an unflinching look at some of the messier realities of the time period frequently skimmed over by other authors, characters who have mental or physical impairments that are laid out very clearly without beating the reader over the head with it, funny bits to lighten the mood without whiplash, and such glorious tension between the two lead characters.
Judith Worth is the daughter of an earl who took his own life upon being accused of treason; her older brother was transported due to his part in the same scheme, and so she has had to care for her younger siblings and try to make a life for them that isn't what they were used to, but it is enough. However, she has encountered legal difficulties, and as such has reached out to a childhood friend, Christian Trent, the Marquess of Ashford. This is a second-chance romance, which I love, and the wealth of complicated and unhappy feelings between the two of them and the ways they protect themselves from each other is beautifully done. Christian was involved in the fall of Judith's family, and that's constantly a sword between them.
I love Courtney Milan's books and I don't know how I could have waited almost two months between buying it and reading it, and I wish I hadn't because then I could have enjoyed it sooner!
Judith Worth is the daughter of an earl who took his own life upon being accused of treason; her older brother was transported due to his part in the same scheme, and so she has had to care for her younger siblings and try to make a life for them that isn't what they were used to, but it is enough. However, she has encountered legal difficulties, and as such has reached out to a childhood friend, Christian Trent, the Marquess of Ashford. This is a second-chance romance, which I love, and the wealth of complicated and unhappy feelings between the two of them and the ways they protect themselves from each other is beautifully done. Christian was involved in the fall of Judith's family, and that's constantly a sword between them.
I love Courtney Milan's books and I don't know how I could have waited almost two months between buying it and reading it, and I wish I hadn't because then I could have enjoyed it sooner!