Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 (varied a bit)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: quite soon in
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: listened to audiobook from library (hoopla)

Should I read in order?
Maybe, ideally, yes?? The other characters have page time here from earlier in the series and there’s some mentions of various plot points that have happened. For a total rebel reader, you won’t be confused here to start though.

Basic plot:
Emily wants to marry to escape her families plans for her unwed...and Marcus will marry anyone that his father doesn’t approve of...

Give this a try if you want:
- Regency
- house party
- one bed at the inn (minor scene)
- compromised heroine resulting in marriage of necessity-ish
-  mid to higher steam – there’s a plethora of scenes here but some are shorter? It's hard to tell on audio sometimes...

Ages:
- didn’t catch either...

First line:
Marcus Roberts, the Earl of Blakely, leaned against the brocaded wall, arms crossed.

My thoughts:
I think I might have liked this one the most so far in the series? It was a bit more character focused than the first two and I enjoyed a lot of their push and pull at each other.

In this one, Marcus is quite tortured by his past. And some of that was frustrating, like when he refused to see the good in what Emily was doing for him and kept focusing on the pain he had. But I enjoyed the emotional pull of this one and how Marcus slowly opened for her. The sex especially I felt was just really emotional and tugged at me.

The ending of the book centers the couple and gives family depth and closure that I appreciated. I feel so invested in this series now 😆 I definitely want to read Rhoda’s story.

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- wanted to mention the hero fucks another woman on page with the heroine watching – they are not together but I know some people don’t like to see the mains on page with other people
- estranged relationships – the hero hasn’t interacted much with his mother, father and sister
- mention of pregnant prior relationship and death of hero’s past love
- poisoning
- scenes of danger/physical threats/risk of death
- there’s a brief scene the hero has a barmaid (?) on his lap but nothing happens

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

I want to say no? I'm not sure if it's explicitly stated 

 
Hows the consent? 

It’s good/implied 

 
5% - heroine watches the hero fuck someone from behind
50% - 🔥breast play o for her in the carriage
56% - 🔥hero self pleasure in front of the heroine
66% - 🔥kisses, fingering/oral for her, sex (it’s a bit vague?) - this scene overall felt a bit shorter than the others but I still counted
68% - 🔥her on top in the carriage
between like 70-75% there’s a fade to black scene
79% - 🔥sex outside against a tree with the risk of discovery (felt short, but again I counted)
91% - 🔥sex against the wall