OMG MEAN GIRLS IN THE REGENCY PERIOD!!!!! I REPEAT!!!!!! MEAN GIRLS IN THE REGENCY PERIOD!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!! it is a truth universally acknowledged that girls just wanna have fun. this is about 19ish georgina who gets sent to her aunt's house while her parents go to the sea for her mother's health. there, georgina befriends the daughter of a lord, frances campbell and from there she enters the world of the rich girlies, going to parties, getting wasted and meeting boys???? this was literally the most mean girls thing I've ever read and I mean that in the highest of compliments. lex croucher perfectly depicts how exciting it is for georgina to get swept up into this world and you can see as she slowly starts to make bad decisions and ahhhhh it's just so good😭😭😭 this was so fun and while I'm no historian, it managed to weave in modern themes into the regency setting quite well. it would have been really easy for lex croucher to make a bunch of steretypical characters, but as the book unfolds, each character is unpacked and it was just so much more depth than I expected from this book! if you love young adult very flawed female characters, this is definitely the book for you!! 4.5 stars