First of all, this cover? Obsessed. The title, the font, the swan?? The 1970s-esque regency costume plus full glam eyeshadow? All of it.

I loved the beginning. The ‘trespassing to retrieve my swan named Gerald’ meet-cute hooked me right in. April was such a nut 😆

For me, the special sauce of this historical romance was the way April felt like a regular girl. Can you call someone an Around The Way Girl if she’s from rural regency England rather than 1980s Brooklyn? I don’t know, she just didn’t have that paper doll/‘I don’t know what a clit is’ feeling that some historicals get trapped in.

I liked all the romcom shenanigans our characters got up to. My only wish was that the all-day conversation they had where they fell for each other had been at least partially on-page.

Still, a very fun and surprisingly heart-squeezey KU novella.