Skimmed, a little more academic than I wanted.  Which is on me because of the title.

Writing was poorly structured, not compelled by the characters

Writing was very mediocre and the situation REALLY strained credibility.

Not a fan of bully redemption story lines.

Wasn't hitting me.  I love Freya Marske and I have nothing bad to say about this book.  Just wasn't grabbing me at the moment, I may very well come back to it and love it.

I don’t like when enemies to lovers goes too hard on the hate each other. Turned me right off.

Characters not well developed, very flat, all telling and not showing.  I wanted this to be good so badly and it’s just… eh.

Just not for me.

 I think I was just not the audience for this particular book at this particular time. 
 
 The enemies to lovers trope came off too strong for me. I get uncomfortable when the love interests have a really strong vitriol for one another. And in this particular story one of the love interests just kept doubling down on his hurtful treatment of the other and that is a deal breaker for me. I can forgive an incident where someone says or does something hurtful because they were flustered or upset or didn't know something. But the repeated cruelty was too much for me. Life is too short to read books that make you unhappy.
 
 I think this book would be great for people that love a strong enemies to lovers dynamic, appreciate really flawed and damaged characters, love the historical London setting with gentleman's clubs and Parliament. It had a great setting and good atmosphere, and I was interested to see what would happen. 

Kept falling asleep, trying to listen on planes.  Will resume another time.