finished this a few days ago but held off on writing a review cause I didn't know how I felt. i loved this at the start but then  I started to get bored many times (this is a long book!) and every now and again there would be a quite sexist observation and I would be like 😮 at the same time I can see that this was really ahead of it's time back in the 1800s so... maybe a 3.75 stars