Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖 
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋  
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔 
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ 
Romance: 💞💞 
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 
Humor: Yes

(These are all personal preference on a scale of 1-5 (yours ratings may vary depending what gives you feels and how you prefer you sex scenes written, etc) except the Steam Scale which follows our chart from The Ton and the Tartans facebook group)

Basic plot:
Isabelle Rochon is interested in British history and is currently working her tail off to get a promotion at the museum. While attending a ball, she wishes she could truly be in the year 1834 and thanks to her magic artifact, her wish is granted. Here she meets Lord Montagu, who has secrets of his own.

Give this a try if you want:
- Fake relationship – the hero needs access to certain social circles that will be more open to him is he were thought to be married soon
- A touch of heroine nurses hero back to health (no death bed scenes, the injury is somewhat minor)
- Secret identity – the hero doesn’t know who the heroine truly is until almost the end of the book
- Time travel – contemporary heroine travels back to 1800s England
- Majority of the book takes place in 1834
- Some fun history tidbits including technology of the time and Ada Lovelace
- Medium steam – 2 open door scenes that are towards the end and some kisses

My thoughts:
I really wanted to like this book! I did. And I think I could have with a few tweaks. 

In this book I definitely wanted more hero and heroine interaction. There was a lot of time with the heroine spent by herself or with Ava Lovelace (Lord Byron’s child – if you are interested in her as a character I’m sure you will enjoy this book more). There wasn’t a lot of time in the hero’s head. I just wanted them together more, talking more. I felt like neither of their character depth was super deep.

The hero was so fascinated by the heroine and kept saying how wowed he was by her intelligence but I didn’t understand that. Yeah, I’m sure she’s a smart heroine, but most of their interactions up to those points had been her basically being super weird and awkward and talking in her modern mannerisms that he didn’t understand because he had no idea she was from the future. We were told she was smart and that’s one of the reasons he loves her but I didn’t see it. I don’t know why he loved her. And I wanted so badly to feel that love here.

When they were together it was really amazing. I just wanted more.

A few specifics

I also struggled with a few things that just personally gave me anxiety. Yes I know this is fiction :P But how she kept slipping things from the future to a real person of history?? She had a cell phone, she used it around characters, she told them about things that would be invented, I was like oh GOD STOP IT. NO! But in the end I did enjoy the epilogue and how the author ‘messed up’ history for an alternate timeline. I liked that. 

I wasn’t in love with the whole hero doing investigations plotline – I didn’t think it was really developed enough for me to care about it really. He was always gone and doing these things but we didn’t know what they were or the background until the very end. Instead we were with the heroine while she was doing errands in book stores and disrupting the history timeline. 

The very end was a little meh.

The heroine MUST go back to her time because of her job! Her job is the most important thing ever. More important than love or happiness. Can you tell she’s American and has been traumatized by her employers in the past? So she goes back and immediately realizes she was wrong? All she does and cry and just….goes back again. How the hell does this calling card case work anyway??? We never really find out.

Overall there was something about this author and book that I do want to try another. I feel like I could really love her though this one was a bit of a flop for me. So I’ll definitely try the next in the series at some point.

Content Warnings:

Not really much to note here:
Some scenes of violence/injury
Hero is kidnapped

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

Pg 107 – just a wrist kiss (I love them!)
Pg 142 – kiss
Pg 174 – kiss
Pg 194 🔥 – kisses, breast play, missionary sex
Pg 257 🔥 – kisses and hot, quick, carriage sex
Pg 285 – kiss and then a return from an alluded to scene
Total pages 291