I was disappointed in this one, tbh

A full-length sapphic historical romance? All the yes. The ‘trying to get their parents to marry each other’ premise? An interesting backdrop, especially since this future blended family had massive ‘historical FF lovers able to live under the same roof’ HEA potential.

Plus, the audiobook was top-tier: two narrators, one of them my favourite of all time (Mary Jane Wells). The listening experience in itself was delightful. 

That said, I struggled with this book for a few reasons (I don’t think the histrom world building fully landed, for one) but my main issue was this:
✨ These two heroines didn’t feel like the main characters in their own story. 

Maybe too much focus was taken away from them by their parents’ second chance romance plot line? Or that once The Parent Trap-y shenanigans got going, it was mostly side characters who were responsible for plot points? These heroines were so passive! And their passivity made the story drag.

But mostly, it really undermined why I’d picked up this book in the first place. I’m tired of the FF romance being the sub-plot, the novella in the series, or the bonus story with the newsletter. This story was the first book in the series. Full length. So promising. And when the story didn’t centre the love story and personal arcs of these heroines enough, I was really disappointed.

So I didn’t like the story. Though I loved the audiobook (and it gets an extra star just for these narrators).