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The Lady Knows Best by Susanna Craig
4.0
This story had a very interesting premise. I like that Miles was very unapologetic about his coercion lol it was a nice change from typical heroes, especially because he is genuinely a kind man and he’s merely putting Daphne in a position of power to choose him.
I liked the idea of daphne being an advice columnist that kind of fails to take her own advice, I just really wish that we had seen MORE of Daphne giving advice. She only wrote one article, so when the characters around her are telling her how great she is at speaking to people through the magazine, it kind of doesn’t ring true because she’s literally only done it once. I think it would’ve been much more fun if Miss Busy B had been a notorious advice columnist amongst the ton, the threat of her identity being revealed could’ve also held a lot more weight if she was more notorious than just a one hit wonder.
That said, the story itself was enjoyable enough. Though it could’ve been better. I liked that the hero’s main problem was his fear of being alone, and he recognized it and knew how to navigate it. It was different for a hero to be that vulnerable.
As for Daphne, I know we met her family in another series (that I haven’t read) so I feel like her dynamic with her siblings kind of got lost on me sometimes. I couldn’t tell if they were mean to her or not.
This was a solid 3.5/5 stars but I will round it up to 4 because the one thing I got out of it is that Alistair’s character hooked me enough to come back for future books in this series!
I liked the idea of daphne being an advice columnist that kind of fails to take her own advice, I just really wish that we had seen MORE of Daphne giving advice. She only wrote one article, so when the characters around her are telling her how great she is at speaking to people through the magazine, it kind of doesn’t ring true because she’s literally only done it once. I think it would’ve been much more fun if Miss Busy B had been a notorious advice columnist amongst the ton, the threat of her identity being revealed could’ve also held a lot more weight if she was more notorious than just a one hit wonder.
That said, the story itself was enjoyable enough. Though it could’ve been better. I liked that the hero’s main problem was his fear of being alone, and he recognized it and knew how to navigate it. It was different for a hero to be that vulnerable.
As for Daphne, I know we met her family in another series (that I haven’t read) so I feel like her dynamic with her siblings kind of got lost on me sometimes. I couldn’t tell if they were mean to her or not.
This was a solid 3.5/5 stars but I will round it up to 4 because the one thing I got out of it is that Alistair’s character hooked me enough to come back for future books in this series!