This felt long to me. I stopped it many times and finally jumped chapters in a couple of places to get to the action again. I think perhaps heist narratives aren't for me, or at least, reading about more than one heist in a single story isn't for me, because otherwise the story was well-written.

Cute, fun, and easy read. Exactly what I needed! I enjoyed Ethan's genuine nature, and appreciated Helen's growing awareness of what a gem he was. His diction was a little annoying to read, but I understand why he was written that way, and ultimately it doesn't detract from the charm of this story.

Ok start to a cute horror series

A bit repetitive in its attempts to world build, but otherwise a fun read in the vein of Buffy or Charmed, set in Regency times. Those of you who enjoy Jane Austen will recognize familiar names like Captain Wentworth, or Emma... Knightly... But they do not resemble Austen's description. They're just borrowed names.

Enjoyable conclusion to the first half of this story, with the right amount of open threads that Holmberg could, if she wanted, write another duology, without making it seem like this story hadn't ended. Felt very much like an extended episode of the original Charmed series but set in Edwardian England, so, clearly, right up my alley.

Cute ending, semi-smarmy romance

Honestly, I think I actually really enjoyed this book just like the others in this series... It's just there was so much time spent obsessing over the age difference that I started to feel icky. Of course at the time, the age difference would have been no big deal... Wasn't Mr. Knightly 13 years older than Emma? And in the previous book, we had a marriage proposal between characters who literally could have been father and daughter. I do understand the bed for it as a plot point, but I guess I would have liked to see the gradual change of opinion be a little less so, if only for my comfort haha.