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A review by carsonelainee
A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin
3.0
I cannot believe quite how MESSY this book was!! I was expecting a pretty straight forward historical romance/fiction book, but this was not that. This was a back-and-forth of epic proportions where I kept getting yanked around without knowing quite what to expect. I really didn't know how this book was going to end until the last 30 pages or so!!!
I kept going back and forth on whether Eliza was going to end up with Somerset or Melville or not with either of them!! I didn't really have a strong preference for either of the male leads until the third act when it became achingly apparent who was the better of the two gentlemen.
There were times when I felt like the overall plot of the book got a bit bogged down in the intricacies of what the author was trying to say, and I do think the book suffers just a tiny bit for it. One thing that was a shining light in this plot was the relationship that was growing between Margaret and Caroline. The entire time I kept thinking, "Well if this isn't the most Lesbian behavior I have ever encountered" not actually thinking the author would make it canon!!!! And then she went ahead and gave us a full-fledged Lesbian plotline!! I was obsessed.
While this is definitely a fun book, I think it could have done with a little more fine-tuning and subversions of typical character archetypes.
I kept going back and forth on whether Eliza was going to end up with Somerset or Melville or not with either of them!! I didn't really have a strong preference for either of the male leads until the third act when it became achingly apparent who was the better of the two gentlemen.
There were times when I felt like the overall plot of the book got a bit bogged down in the intricacies of what the author was trying to say, and I do think the book suffers just a tiny bit for it. One thing that was a shining light in this plot was the relationship that was growing between Margaret and Caroline. The entire time I kept thinking, "Well if this isn't the most Lesbian behavior I have ever encountered" not actually thinking the author would make it canon!!!! And then she went ahead and gave us a full-fledged Lesbian plotline!! I was obsessed.
While this is definitely a fun book, I think it could have done with a little more fine-tuning and subversions of typical character archetypes.