I didn’t dislike this book, but I don’t think I liked it either. It follows Anna, a teacher at an orphanage, who suddenly discovers that she is the child of a member of the ton and must deal with all that inheritance means. 

This book started off confusing as fuck! There are approximately One Billion characters, all of which are named and most titled, some of which having multiple names and titles! And while I understand that to some extent, the author really should have just focused the story on the leads, and left the antics of the other characters for future novels. 

For as many characters and introductions as we had in the novel, the actual main lead was somewhat of a letdown! I did not find him engaging, and in fact found him to be kind of a loser! He always had “lazy” eyes, or was relaxing laying around, or letting his ward do whatever because he couldn’t be bothered. He also didn’t have the masculine descriptions that would make this appealing—he just seemed like a boring asshole! I did really enjoy Anna’s character, and think this novel would have been much better if it hadn’t been a historical romance, and instead just a historical drama of her adapting to her new circumstances. She’s an admirable and lovely character to read about, and made the rest of it bearable. 

I’ll also say that the writing was a bit awkward. Eventually it did grow on me, and I came to enjoy the overabundance of words for every little description, but my first thought was for sure “someone take away her thesaurus!”. 

Feel free to skip this one yall!