Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥 (There is also an epilogue scene but I decided not to count it)
Humor: Not much
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 to fast
When mains are first on page together: Not too far in, 8% or chapter 2
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, 6 years later
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through booksprout in e-book form

Should I read in order?
I don’t think it’s necessary! These all stand alone really well in the series.

Basic plot:
Irene escapes the nunnery after being threatened with punishment for watching two men brawl (you know, the Regency thirst trap) when she tumbles off a cliff and is rescued by Simon.

Give this a try if you want:
- late Regency – 1822
- nun heroine
- hero falls first
- full figured heroine
- marriage of convenience
- ruined heroine
- shorter novel
- child free HEA (my assumption, not specifically stated)
- higher steam – 3-4 scenes within a shorter page count (some kink elements – light praise, degradation, toys)

Ages:
- I don’t believe they are mentioned

First line:
Now is my chance to escape

My thoughts:
I really enjoyed this quick and steamy read!

I loved both mains. Simon struggles with any type of scandal or bad behavior due to his parents shirking society standards for years so seeing him find his dirty talking voice was extra fun. Irene escapes a nunnery and runs right into a marriage to save her from being ruined. I enjoyed them circling each other and coming together to explore fantasies.

There is some elements of jealousy here and I eat that stuff up in romance. It triggers something rather feral in Simon 😏
It may be toxic but ugh I just melt when the hero loses it like that!

Quotes/spoiler-y thoughts:Any mistakes/typos are my own

Her gown clung to lush curves and the moonlight highlighted every hill and valley through the wet, translucent material. You’re supposed to be a gentleman. Whipping his coat off. He wrapped it around the shivering woman to provide a semblance of modesty.
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“Prove it,” she challenged, excited by the prospect of freeing Simon from his invisible bounds. “Maybe I don’t want a proper congenial husband. Maybe I want a beast. I believe I overheard Lady Rushmore refer to Lord Mason as a -”
He didn’t let her finish.
Simon’s lips stole the words from her mouth with bruising efficiency.

 

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

- mention of suicide of parent
- parental death
- forced into a nunnery for life to atone for parent’s sins by grandparents
- toxic aspect of religion/Christianity
- some scenes of jealousy and insecurity from the hero

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

Safe sex: 

  No, but they are married 

Hows the consent? 

It’s good! 

29% - 🔥 fingering for her, missionary

“My impure thoughts were sin enough. I didn’t care to add to the list.”
“What a shame. It might have made your time at the convent more bearable, though I can’t deny a certain satisfaction knowing I’ll own your first orgasm.”

56% - 🔥 oral for her, bj but it’s interrupted

“I want to please you, husband,” she murmured, the words breathy and tantalizing on his sensitive flesh.

75% - 🔥 nipple clamps, hero masturbates on the heroine, her on top with mirror play

“Other men want to debauch my sweet little nun. They want to put their filthy hands on your soft curves and show you the carnal pleasures of sin, but I’m the only man with that right. It’s my fucking duty. Now get on your knees, wife.”

95% - kiss
98% - you walk in on a sex scene started with DP (with the jade dildo in the butt)