Fun follow-up to the first book, and just as fun! I will say, I didn’t quite like Lucie and Tristan as much as Annabelle and Sebastian, but this is still one of the better historical romances I’ve read. 

Lucie is deeply involved in the suffrage movement, and struggles with the idea that she may have to compromise her life’s work if she wants to be with a man. I really liked how they handled her inner turmoil, and the overall message that a woman can have goals and ambitions and doesn’t need to give those up for love—it’s possible to want AND to have both! I also liked the fact that she was obviously an older spinster (almost 30 I believe), which can be rarer for these novels. Tristan was kinda creepy in the first book imo, but he redeemed himself in my eyes in this book many times over, and I really enjoyed it.