Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
Percentage which mains are first on page together:

3% 

Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: Yes – the second to last chapter takes place 2 months after and the labeled ‘epilogue’ is about Rockwell and Farah who get their own story next
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy that is now 10 months old because I let it languish on my kindle forever

Should I read in order?
This is the first in the Sisterhood of Scandal series.

Basic plot:
Tiffany will only marry for love, but she soon finds herself in wager with her guardian’s best friend, Wolf, who requests the right to court her.

Give this a try if you want:
- Georgian (1808)
- heroine is good with numbers and investing
- almost a brother’s best friend feel, except it’s the heroine and her guardian’s best friend
- artist, Marquess hero
- hero pursues
- hero paints the heroine
- bargain
- low steam – 1 full scene (I could have missed something??)

Ages:
- heroine is 23, didn’t catch hero but I think a touch older than her

First line:
The carriage slowly rolled to a stop in front of an imposing country house.

My thoughts:
After a decent start, this book sadly fell flat for me.

I loved the beginning scenes. The guardian’s best friend vibes, hero pursues – I love that stuff. I enjoyed the heroine being an investor. That was interesting and not a career I’ve read much, especially for historical. I enjoyed their playfulness with each other.

But then as the book went on, it was a bit high on the drama and low on the romance and feels for me. I kept finding myself wishing the mains were together more often. It felt like they were separated a lot of the book, each with their own circles of friends. Perhaps it’s the first in a series syndrome where it’s trying to set up multiple character’s personalities and themes for the series. When they were together I was liking it!

The steam was also a big disappointment. I have read one other by Evans, years ago and I thought I remembered it being steamy, but this one was pretty tame for me. It had a decent amount of kisses though!

Content warnings:

- heroine’s parents were murdered
- death/suicide 

hero’s betrothed killed herself on their wedding day

- rape of a side character 

resulting in child 

- one brief mention of body image/weight A servant placed food in front of Tiffany. Since she’d missed breakfast she had to eat. Tiffany loved food and she was hungry. She wasn’t the thinnest of women and so she made an effort to never overindulge. For one, if she put on weight, she’d need a whole new wardrobe, and she hated wasting her money on frivolous things such as clothes when what she had was more than adequate.
- kidnapping of heroine by villain
- suicide shaming Margo had simply said yes, as if it was expected of her. Perhaps if she’d had Tiffany’s strength of mind she would never had killed herself. She could have survived her ordeal.

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Okay for real is there only one oral scene in this book?? The heroine is pregnant at the end of the book and we get no penetration scene?? I might have missed it but I scoured the book.
Safe sex: 

No but they plan on getting married – it’s all implied and off page 

 
46% - kiss
50% - kiss
65% - light kisses and breast play
72% - kisses, oral for heroine
82% - kiss
92% - kiss
94% - kiss