I have to say that I was excited to pick this one up, I always love some historical PNR and the covers of the series are really pretty. But I was highly disappointed with this one here. It was a real struggle to read this one, and I had it in audiobook. And if a audio is slow then that's a sign lol but I stuck with the story because it does getting better the more you read, but I will say that I wanted so much more from this story and it just didn't connect for me. I found the set up of the story to be fascinating and I really enjoyed the world building, but there was a disconnect in the pacing and writing style from the actual plot and character development. I will probably try another book from this author but I was discouraged in reading this and almost became a DNF. I just wanted to stick with the story as I really wanted to know how it ended. I did find the plot development's with the uncle of the hero to be fascinating and was curious to see how the climax of the story would turn out. The romance was solid and I adore a pining hero or heroine, in this case, it was the hero who was pining for the heroine and it was delightful to see this happen. And even though there were plenty of factors about this one that I did enjoy, there were some major issues with the writing style that affected my enjoyment from the story.