Edit to update steam stats (11/20/21):
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes

Spoiler

Pg 244 - kiss (its quite wonderful and passionate for a first kiss)
Pg 254 - more kisses
Pg 350 - kiss
Total pages 373

Book takes place in 1824





Original review 12/18/2018 (Sorry everyone, I was a mean reviewer back then :P ):
This book was so utterly boring and unlikeable to me. Possibly it would have had a better chance if I had read all the books relating to this. Maybe.

What actually happened:
I gave up and set the book nicely down on the table after 180 long pages of basically...nothing. No tension, no sparks, no kisses. High and Sarah hate enough other and have nasty interactions. Then miraculously they just fall for each other. Why? Who knows. I don’t. If I was being nagged to death by a harpy I wouldn’t find her lips enticing. If I was yelled at and insulted by a limping math genius I wouldn’t be awaiting his smile. I love the enemies to lovers trope, but it has to be done right. I need to see, feel and understand the shift in feelings. And there better be sparks! I was done.

But, but I hadn’t even read a kiss yet! What if it changes everything??? I pick the book back up and skimfor something interesting like first kiss. Not finding anything and set it back down. Pick up again determined to find it. Read first kiss, which is decent, then read heroine loves hero.

Heroine LOVES the hero? After one kiss and barely any interaction that wasn’t mean? I felt like it was pity love. Or guilt love. She started to see Hugh as a person and realized that he suffered too and maybe her being extremely annoying her entire life wasn’t fun for him.

Husband, watching me, says, “So are you actually reading that book or just flipping the pa-“ chucks book across living room. *Calmly drinks wine*. “-err okay I see that one is not a winner...”

The end.