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A review by bookish_kristina
Once Upon a Maiden Lane by Elizabeth Hoyt
4.0
feels like an afterthought, written because of reader pressure, but still good
This novella is an extremely sweet, lost princess-style romance, but it really irked me that Mary Whitsun was so impoverished and treated as a servant by Temperance. I had the impression, from earlier books, that Lady Claire (Temperance) had adopted Mary and raised her as her own, but this book shows us Mary slaving away as a nursemaid to Lady Claire’s actual *beloved* children. She gets half a day off a week, has to scrimp and save to buy a book and always longed for a pet but was never allowed one.
Way to destroy a character from previous books for me.
This book would have been better if it wasn’t Mary Whitsun but some other orphan from the home. Mary deserved better from Lady Caire. I was so sad for her and couldn’t get into this because of that.
I think I might just be sick of this series, and I think the author may have also been done with it. The last few books showed that she’d exhausted herself with this. At least we got some glimpses of the Duke of Montgomery being a doting daddy and still ridiculously terrible.
This novella is an extremely sweet, lost princess-style romance, but it really irked me that Mary Whitsun was so impoverished and treated as a servant by Temperance. I had the impression, from earlier books, that Lady Claire (Temperance) had adopted Mary and raised her as her own, but this book shows us Mary slaving away as a nursemaid to Lady Claire’s actual *beloved* children. She gets half a day off a week, has to scrimp and save to buy a book and always longed for a pet but was never allowed one.
Way to destroy a character from previous books for me.
This book would have been better if it wasn’t Mary Whitsun but some other orphan from the home. Mary deserved better from Lady Caire. I was so sad for her and couldn’t get into this because of that.
I think I might just be sick of this series, and I think the author may have also been done with it. The last few books showed that she’d exhausted herself with this. At least we got some glimpses of the Duke of Montgomery being a doting daddy and still ridiculously terrible.