So, I had two sick days over the last couple of years. One of them, I sat and read Boyfriend Material. The next, I read Husband Material. And while I enjoyed the experience both times, they (especially Boyfriend Material) were what I would dub "brain candy." 

So imagine my surprise when I got my syllabus for next semester and found Confounding Oaths on it. And then my annoyance when I started Confounding Oaths and discovered it was, in fact, a sequel. 

So I decided to knock this book back real quick before I started it. And wow?? 

Mortal Follies (and Confounding Oaths) is a Regency Fantasy Romance story, as narrated by Shakespeare's Puck. Ans it's excellent. I don't know how much of it is the writing itself and how much of it was Nneka Okoye's narration (her narration is honestly top notch), but it was great. 

The characters were generally great (though it suffers from the curse of the side characters being more interesting than the two romantic leads). The world building is creative and fun. The framing device (Puck's story) is unique, whimsical, and somehow fits the story perfectly. There are some pacing issues (especially when what I thought was going to be the climax of the novel took place pretty much right in the middle of it), but they only detracted a little from my enjoyment of the story. I had a lot of fun with this one.