Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥 (with some extras – see notes at the end)
Humor: A bit
Perspective: Third person from both the 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: almost immediately (1%)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, maybe 8 or so months in the future

Should I read in order?
This is the third book in Urban’s Ladies Least Likely series, but I think it’s fine alone.

Basic plot:
Harriette desires to establish herself as a portrait artist, so she makes an arrangement with her childhood friend, the Earl of Renwick.

Give this a try if you want:
- Georgian time period – 1776
- childhood friends
- hero doesn’t have a ton of sexual experience
- disability rep – hero has a club foot and stammer
- artist heroine
- some ‘ruined’ heroine vibes within society functions
- duel
- bit of instalust vibes
- medium steam – 2 full scenes and multiple partials

Ages:
- I believe the heroine is 21 and the hero is 24

First line:
Harriette Smythe was the first girl Renwick met who could make a boy cry.

My thoughts:
This was my first by Misty Urban and I’m so glad I gave her a try!

First, I love that she’s writing in Georgian time period instead of Regency. There’s just something about those years that I am loving – maybe I am a bit burnt out on Regency, but I rather love these earlier Georgian years right now!

This novel had a lot I enjoyed about it. I loved the writing and dialogue and fell into the story pretty fast. I enjoyed both mains and their struggles they faced.

It had some very light second chance feels since they were childhood friends...they were young and it wasn’t developed into a relationship, but I was still a bit sad because it seemed like they had one summer together and then we separated for a number of years. When they see each other again I felt like they jumped back into each other pretty fast and I missed some of the good feelings I crave with a relationship developing, but overall it was pretty light. It was a bit of instalust and I didn’t feel tension developing as much as I wanted to. I did want them together a bit more in the novel too but I’m always whiny about that.

I liked that this story felt different than a lot of what I’ve been reading lately. I enjoyed the class difference struggles in the beginning and the trials of her coming to terms with her mysterious past. Overall am very curious to try more by Urban.



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

- parental death
- bullying on page
- hero suffers from a clubfoot and stutter as a child

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  Hero doesn’t pull out, or thing of birth control methods until afterwards but the heroine mentions she took care of it 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good! 

 
17% - kiss
26% - kisses
35% - kisses
40% - brief kiss
44% - kiss
48% - some light breast play, kisses and dry humping that’s interrupted
55% - kisses, touches and dry humping (no o’s)
79% - 🔥kisses, her on top
82% - 🔥oral for her ,missionary
85% - mention of sex, but it’s short and not many details
88% - implication of sex