I was provided with an advance digital copy of this book in exchange for my review. 

This is a really solid book for someone who thinks they'll enjoy its constituent parts - sapphic annoyances to lovers, grumpy x sunshine, scrappy found family kind of stuff. Unfortunately this didn't really do it for me.

This is a 3-star book for me not because the whole book is average, but because the first half dragged for me personally. It really picked up in the second half, and I enjoyed a lot of what the author was going for in that part. There were a lot of good, emotional moments that hit really hard in that second half, and I'm glad I stuck the book out!

The book is still quite a way off release as of when I picked up the advance copy, so hopefully one of my bigger issues will be partially remedied by the final publishing date - this book needs another copy edit. There are some glaring historical inaccuracies in the language and an instance where a nonbinary character is misgendered unintentionally.

Beyond this, though, there's a sweet romance and some lovely characters at its core. If you enjoy the tropes I mentioned closer to the top of my review, you may well enjoy this book more than I did!