

I would only recommend this book if you are more interested in the historical setting than the romance. There are countless scenes of people just talking politics and practicing social etiquettes to the point of exhaustion. I almost put the book down a handful of times, but my love of the BBC drama kept me motivated to see through to the romantic end that finally came in the last couple pages. For how many teases the book has the ending felt abrupt and anticlimactic.
I would only recommend this book if you are more interested in the historical setting than the romance. There are countless scenes of people just talking politics and practicing social etiquettes to the point of exhaustion. I almost put the book down a handful of times, but my love of the BBC drama kept me motivated to see through to the romantic end that finally came in the last couple pages. For how many teases the book has the ending felt abrupt and anticlimactic.