I'm too lazy to give a thorough review, I have many thoughts tho. 
At first I wasn't planning on rating this as high as it is, I was wondering the whole time if I could even tolerate wulf if his perspective wasn't there. At the end both Christine and wulf (despite his name) grew on me though. Honestly the build up was necessary ig but the best part started for me at around 60% ? That's when the love hate turned to a more solid love.
I did race through this in about a day so it's a little bit of a blur, the same issues I had with the first book of the series remained here too (like the beauty standards, femininity, constantly thinking about this being set in a racist, coloniser country, the characters dreaming of conquest and such ...), so it's not perfect but I do enjoy these books. 
Mary Balogh's couples always share the same thoughts, Christine and wulf were literally the same person but opposite.
One thing grating on my nerves was the way they constantly made wulf out to be some sort of .. ice-block in human shape, maybe that just hit too close to home. Well except for him being so audacious and perplexing in the first half, my jaw was on the floor when he

asked her to be his mistress like? Out of the blue, who does that?! And knowing about the accusations against her it felt all the more crazy 🫢👀

Oh! And finally someone confronted wulf on his views on women and life.
Also liked how balogh copy pasted othellos storyline for Christine's previous marriage, nothing gets me raging more than a shakespearean (?) villain and nothing gets me happier than seeing them suffer the consequences :)

when he first proposed and she declined 🫢 no but I was happy seeing him struggle, but the speech she delivered was actually quite hurtful - i was hurt reading it and it wasn't directed at me

The most satisfying scene by far was when

christine ripped that damn quizzical glass out of his hands and threw it away + the first smile ofc

One thing that I sort of disliked was, and this is very much a personal preference, that after we established that she's barren she bore like a million kids in the epilogue - I was looking forward to a hr story without kids for a change but oh well 
(But for 2003/4 it surprised me positively)