You say whatever you want, and I feel like I’m always screaming, deep inside where nobody can hear what I’m doing. It’s become so bad that I’m afraid I might start doing it out loud. 

 Such a wonderful story! This novella has everything I've come to expect from Courtney Milan's books: thoughtful characterization, fun dialogue, smart commentary on social issues, and a central relationship development that, despite the constraints of a novella, feels natural and unrushed.  

 The characters here are simply delightful. Bertrice in particular is the queen of acerbic wit. The Terrible Nephew truly lived up to his title, and seeing him get his due was the cherry on top of the cake. I also absolutely loved that the heroines of this book are older women: one in her early seventies, the other in her late sixties. So often, older people get automatically relegated to the position of background characters instead of getting to be the movers and shakers. I'm nowhere near the heroines' age yet—only about halfway there—and even so, I sometimes feel that it's getting harder than it should be to just open a book in my favorite genre and expect to see people my age at the center of the plot. I imagine it will get harder and harder as I get older. 

I also very much enjoyed the focus on the financial anxiety Violetta's dealing with, because, to tell the truth, this is an extremely relatable thing for me. I nearly teared up at that one part where she thought about how she didn't know how to want chocolate because she's trained herself to only want things that she could afford with some work, things that were actually in her reach.  

 All in all, this was a great romance to spend an evening with, and I already miss these two characters.