A review by typewriter
The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner

2.0

The beginning of this book was sweet and it was certainly unique for a regency story, but that's where the positives ended for me. The main issue I had with this story was the constant use of timeskips; much of the interesting plot (and significant early portions of the romance) happen off-page, so it's hard to get invested and the whole thing reads like a badly made soap opera. Neva is also very much a Mary Sue: she's beautiful and always saying the wrong (conveniently progressive and feminist) thing. Overall the book has a very childish delineation of good and evil. The heteronormativity of the story was also a big disappointment, and verges on queerbaiting/homophobia. I still had a good time reading this though; it's so much fun to explain the increasingly deranged plot to friends as you go.