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The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
4.0
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This book was great. Just maybe a touch too angsty for me? (because I’ve maybe turned into a weakling?)

This heroine was the best. She was an heiress who didn’t want to be proposed to, so she acted as obnoxious as she could in public without crossing into impolite territory. And it was hilarious. Excellent character arcs, again. I particularly loved how their inconvenient feelings for each other forced them to grow in such a spot-on storytelling way.

It did get a bit too angsty for me for a second there. There was a sexy time moment that the characters experienced as bittersweet, but my little demisexual heart couldn’t handle. I loved how it was resolved though, so… ‘worth it’ angst?

And there was a secondary romance plot that I wanted to be its own book! I feel robbed.