MC was a little too "I'm not like other girls" in a way that didn't seem entirely intentional which was kinda annoying (tho I guess in this instance, she was ...literally not like the other girls). As other ppl have noted, i think this book would have been stronger if it was longer.

Never have I gone from :) to  🙄 so quickly reading a book. The ending made me soooooo annoyed. 

getting angsty because your gf won't out herself in regency era UK where her parents have the ability to institutionalize her or force her to marry is WILD and to act like forsaking literally all respectable society is as reasonable as pretending to be in a hetero relationship on the rare occurrences you attend society functions is so dumb. ALSO, because the baron is foreign.....they could just get married and the 'baron' could return to his foreign lands for 'business' and she could then go on to forge a close and nonsuspicious relationship to his family...... UGHHHHH I was really loving this book until this ridiculous 'conflict'. The whole "everyone is actually super accepting and fine with everything felt so cheap and silly

 :(((((

god, I already know how this is gonna end from reading the Silmarillion but i still found myself hoping for a different outcome

 

The side romances were not my fave

I'm too old for this lolol

the audiobook is hard to pay attention to :(

*sigh* I wanted to like this but.......it was just so....bleh. I didn't feel any chemistry tbh. The ending left me feeling similarly to Sense and Sensibility: Bored, disappointed, and with the conviction at least one person in the final couples was settling. 

Beautiful collection! Vivid and precise language. My faves were :

Heaven
The Warning 
Nightly Detonation 
The Bulimic Soul Says to the Bulimic Body
Telling Your Best Friend
The Kittens