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A review by khines213
An Earl, the Girl, and a Toddler by Vanessa Riley
3.0
I'm not gonna lie, this was a lot harder to read than book 1 in the series.
I completely understand where the author was coming from and what she was trying to communicate with how the book displayed the relationship between a Black man and a white woman in Regency England, but it was hard to read how almost uncaring some of the heroine's decisions seem to be just out of sheer ignorance of the complete trauma, fear, and uphill battle the hero had to face as a minority in a position of power in an era where some people still enslaved people who looked like him.
I wanted to yell at her to be a little more compassionate and see why he was making the decisions as he did instead of going against what he was arguing for or suspecting him of undermining her.
Overall, I'll still read the series because I think it's needed and necessary, and well done, but not quite as compelling as book 1, but perhaps because the issues addressed are a lot deeper here.
I completely understand where the author was coming from and what she was trying to communicate with how the book displayed the relationship between a Black man and a white woman in Regency England, but it was hard to read how almost uncaring some of the heroine's decisions seem to be just out of sheer ignorance of the complete trauma, fear, and uphill battle the hero had to face as a minority in a position of power in an era where some people still enslaved people who looked like him.
I wanted to yell at her to be a little more compassionate and see why he was making the decisions as he did instead of going against what he was arguing for or suspecting him of undermining her.
Overall, I'll still read the series because I think it's needed and necessary, and well done, but not quite as compelling as book 1, but perhaps because the issues addressed are a lot deeper here.