This was great! It just had some themes that aren’t my fav.

I love a one-day timeline novella, and don’t mind the insta-love of it all. I liked that our characters were older. Loved our heroine in academia (especially in a late-1870s setting). And who doesn’t love a good bargain?

That said, I wish I could have pictured our heroine easier—he was gobsmacked by her beauty but she insisted she was plain and I didn’t know what to think. There was some minor fetishized virginity plus a Good Girl I didn’t need. And there was some commentary on ‘loose women’ and what counted as moral versus immoral behaviour that I wished had more resolution.

But the writing itself was evocative and I’d definitely read from this author again.