Mine Till Midnight

Oh, you know. Just starting off 2023 with a romance novel! After a spate of really awful lending library finds, I invested in Kleypas' Hathaways series, and this is a good start. I really liked Cam from Devil in Winter of the Wallflowers series, and he's the male half of this novel's love interest. He's smart and sexy and completely unabashed about expressing interest in his paramour. He's also Roma, as is another character I'm sure will reappear in the series. I'm completely unqualified to comment on the accuracy of Kleypas' research, but there's more (pleasant) didactic stuff about Romani culture and prejudice against and persecution of them in England at the time than you would expect for a romance novel. The main issue with this novel is the heroine! Kleypas typically writes less neurotic protagonists than Amelia Hathaway, to be honest, and she's a character who really takes her outsized sense of obligation to her family to annoying, not endearing, lengths. I don't think she has much of a developmental arc in that regard, which is another nice feature of other Kleypas novels. Still! I was suitably entertained and will certainly read the rest of the series.