Lord and Lady Spy

4/5
I really enjoyed this book. I LOVE regency romance and spy romance is always exciting, but to combine them? Amazing.

I felt for Sophia throughout the book with her struggles, but I'd love to flesh out her backstory more. For example, we never learned about her brother, nor did we have a glimpse about him AT ALL until Sophia told Adrian his story. It was hard to connect to that and while this explains why she has such trouble trusting Adrian, it was hard to actually believe it. Nothing before that suggested that she even had a brother, so to hear about his murder was hard for me to believe why would it shake Sophia so much since it was the first time we heard about it at all.

I'd also love more backstory about Adrian and his father instead of focusing on his father's betrayal so much, I'd love to hear more about it before. And ngl, it was hard to believe that a 3-year-old child would be able to remember everything with such details into his adulthood. His parents would have fought constantly so really, that was the memory he remembers all this time? As a 3-year-old? Just say he was 6 and it's instantly more believable. NOTHING would change about the story if Adrian was a little bit older at the time.

I'm nitpicking because those two are the only things I have issues with I think? More fleshed-out backstory for both of them, including keeping up their identity from each other. What did Adrian think when Sophia was out of his house for days at the time? I don't believe he was always sent on a mission at the exact same time as her - after all we know that Adrian's excuse was to go to the club for a few hours when Sophia was home, but what about the times when their mission took them days to complete? I would LOVE to know more about their life before they lost their jobs and they learned the truth about each other.