This is definitely one of those ‘I support women’s rights as well as women’s wrongs’ books. And I freaking LOVED it.

She was the rake and wrote controversial political texts. The Author’s Note said she was inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft. And I’m obsessed.

He was a Scottish widower. Honourable and slightly starchy. But also freaky.

There were four things I really loved about this book in particular:
✨ The isolated + harsh weather setting felt almost gothic
✨ There were some majorly unpopular tropes in here. But of course I loved them because they were MESSY
✨ Our political heroine was 0% twee. I loved how a) authentically first wave feminist she was, and b) how being ‘out of step’ with 1820s British society mentally impacted her as a character
✨ Formatting wise, I loved how our heroine’s backstory came through excerpts from the memoir she was writing. Just the pace at which the backstory trickled in, the slightly different authorial voice of those sections—I was living

Go into this one when you’re craving some angst. I loved our MCs flaws, their mistakes squeezed my heart to bits, and then some their swoony lines made it all better.