A review by katymul
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I almost didn't give the book full marks but my main complaint

that all the male love interests  were also in some way kind of awful (I have no patience for the dude caught between two sisters dithering around, the activist who flirts by negging, the heir apparent who likes the maid better than his semi-arranged marriage partner but also keeps her on the line much too long, and actually Harrison is great just a little into throwing his money around for someone scared of being into him for his money; but the boys are all understandably figuring their own shit out too so actually this is BETTER because it's not just clean and easy fantasy romance but everyone gets to be complicated like I said, objection WITHDRAWN)

actually had a great resolution at the end by

having our core trio of siblings end up temporarily alone

.

This book set up so many difficult-to-resolve plots layered on and through one another and I started to think it couldn't possibly pull them ALL of satisfactorily, especially when I was 50-20 pages from the ending and just wandering how HOW this was going to...

And it does my favorite thing in the genre which is having the romantic resolution dovetail with the character growth resolution in a very satisfying way...again, for multiple characters in a complicated interdependent web.

This book is doing so much, and it seems at times like it can't possibly pull them all off. 
It can.