I really wanted to love this series, and perhaps I just set myself up for disappointment. I must admit, I like Mary's character, I'm intrigued by Lee's exploration of what it meant to be mixed race in Victoria's England, I want to see where Mary goes from here. However, the mystery is convoluted and has little human hook to interest me - what do I care about shipping fraud? And what I really want to see, details about a Victorian school that trains women to be spies, isn't there at all. Perhaps more will come in the rest of the series, but I'm not that hooked.