Dude, this book was not at all what I thought it’d be. I mean, story-wise, it’s spot on exactly what you think from reading the synopsis, but the smut, almost the exact opposite of what I had pictured. Which is no fault of the book; I just misunderstood and had set my expectations in a totally different realm.

I thought it’d be a more typical regency romance (at least typical from my fairly small sample size). More of a slow burn where the first time their hands touched was tantalizing. The smut may have been excepts from the fictional writer’s work until the characters finally give in to their passions and sex it up as much as possible in the last third.

It was not that. Not at all. By the 40% mark they were having sex and it was BDSM adjacent. Pretty much all of the sex was rough; however there weren’t any discussions of boundaries or safe words before things got heated. Which I don’t mean to imply the darker steam was bad or wrong or anything. I just wasn’t prepared for that and for my personal preference wish they would have discussed boundaries and safe words before taking action on things. Or asked for consent before performing certain actions.

As long as you know what you’re going into, I recommend picking this one up. Overall it’s a pretty enjoyable historical romance. However, I don’t recommend the audiobook.