Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both the hero and heroine
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes
Format: listened to the audio from Hoopla

Should I read in order?
Ideally, yes. This series really flows together with character arcs and growth. Though I don’t think it would be unreadable alone (though I did pick this one up alone years ago and just thought it was okay, I liked it much more this time around with getting the back ground of Jane and Harrison

Basic plot:
Jane’s reputation is ruined, and the culprit’s brother, Harrison, is determined to make things right with marriage.

Give this a try if you want:
- Regency (1817)
- full figured, glasses wearing, shy heroine
- ruined heroine that results in marriage of necessity
- angsty
- touch of heroine seduces her husband
- touch of enemies to lovers
- bit of a protective/jealous hero
- higher steam – 6 full scenes


Ages:
- Heroine is 20, hero is 31

My thoughts:
I read this one years ago and really didn’t like it. I remember thinking they jumped into sex too fast and I just didn’t really care about either of them. I didn’t feel the same this round though, so I’m rounding my rating up a bit! I think reading in order helped me care about them more knowing their backgrounds a bit.

I am still annoyed that so much of the beginning of the book isn’t even focused on Jane and Harrison. I dive into books without ever reading the synopsis and I seriously thought this was Colin’s book for the first 20% 😅

I did get into their relationship more this read. I loved the steam, and I loved Jane trying to pull Harrison out of his uptight shell. And I LOVED when he loses control with her.

Overall though I was still annoyed a bit with the ending. I feel like after reading The Madness of Viscount Atherbourne, this ending felt so similar. The not talking to each other, the heroine having to work to make the relationship what it should be. I was just so, so in love with Ever Yours, Annabelle that I guess these aren’t holding up to it 😆

Still I’m glad I reread it and have better feelings about it now.


Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

45% - 🔥 kisses, missionary with no orgasm for the heroine
49% - 🔥 kisses, desk sex
57% - 🔥 hero talks dirty to the heroine at the picnic while licking her fingers, blow job (incomplete), missionary
63% - 🔥 kisses, missionary (?)
68% - kiss
92% - 🔥 bent over a desk
98% - 🔥 kiss, missionary