Thank you to Morgan at Grand Central Publishing and the author for the review copy. All opinions in this review are my own.

Before I write about anything else, I want to take a second to appreciate how awesome this cover is! The good news is Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency is just as amazing as its cover!

Each chapter of Mad & Bad focuses on a group of women from the Regency, which history has either ignored or turned into footnotes in the stories of men. Koch also discusses how the group is represented in Regency romance novels. I love that each chapter has resources at the end for further reading. These lists offer both history books as well as romance novels.

Also, Koch owns her own bookstore devoted entirely to romance novels called The Ripped Bodice. I will definitely be adding it to my bookstores to visit list!