I really hope this would be up my alley but unfortunately it wasn’t ticking the boxes for me. I’m going to be picky about this but there were too many “’twas” and “betwixt”. I don’t mind them if they’re used sparingly but it felt like every other page (it wasn’t actually) and it just started to spoil my reading of it. 

I did try to like the characters but they weren’t working for me. It felt like the author was trying to hard – forcing the banter, forcing their chemistry. So I decided to dnf before I got too far.