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The Glittering Hour
by Iona Grey
I found this book to be just… okay. It read to me like a Lifetime movie. Stories like these make me feel detached, but I was lured in by the promise of descriptive world building and a historical fiction slant. Turns out it was just a romance novel in disguise. If you’re into that sort of story, then you’ll likely love this book.
The TL;DR (Spoilers) Two people from different castes fall in love, woman realizes that she can’t live that life and marries the sensible choice, finds out she’s pregnant with the other mans baby. There’s no attempt to produce an heir which is odd to me if you’re going to hold strict to tradition. At some point (they aren’t really clear on when) she finds out she has cancer and creates some grand lie to “protect” her daughter through the same shallow type of game that she would play with the Bright Young People. She dies with her lost love and their love child by her side.
The TL;DR (Spoilers) Two people from different castes fall in love, woman realizes that she can’t live that life and marries the sensible choice, finds out she’s pregnant with the other mans baby. There’s no attempt to produce an heir which is odd to me if you’re going to hold strict to tradition. At some point (they aren’t really clear on when) she finds out she has cancer and creates some grand lie to “protect” her daughter through the same shallow type of game that she would play with the Bright Young People. She dies with her lost love and their love child by her side.