More regency romance! This time we're focusing on Phoebe, a full-figured widow who doesn't want to get married again until she needs money in order to help her younger sister. The local political organizations are willing to make it worth her while to either marry a Whig or a Tory for the votes, but she ends up feeling very strongly for Nick Dymond, the brother of the Whig candidate who has withdrawn from society since he returned from the war. However, he's not an option for her, so she reluctantly allows two other gentlemen to court her and tries to imagine giving up her love of writing for a loveless marriage.
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did. I thought the writing itself was fairly solid, but the characters never quite landed for me. I've already started reading the next book in the series and I think the central relationship/conflict is going to be more to my taste, so it may just be that this book isn't for me. I will say that the final part of the book during which everything is revealed and there are secrets and betrayals and lots of other exciting things was really fun to read, and the physical chemistry between Phoebe and Nick was very well written; it just didn't hit me emotionally. Hoping the next one is more to my liking!
Grade: C
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did. I thought the writing itself was fairly solid, but the characters never quite landed for me. I've already started reading the next book in the series and I think the central relationship/conflict is going to be more to my taste, so it may just be that this book isn't for me. I will say that the final part of the book during which everything is revealed and there are secrets and betrayals and lots of other exciting things was really fun to read, and the physical chemistry between Phoebe and Nick was very well written; it just didn't hit me emotionally. Hoping the next one is more to my liking!
Grade: C
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