Mrs. Lady

This is the second book of the Season of the Furies saga. I usually don't care reading books out of order or as standalone, and while you can get away with this as standalone, the books have overlapping timelines and crossover with each other, so I recommend reading the first. Plus I looooooved A Terrible Beauty.

Here, Katherine was hands down one of my favorite heroines I have read in a long time. The author wrote a beautiful a character arc of a spiteful snooty “mean girl” ton debutante who makes a transformation through adversity and obscene amount of cruelty from the hero. Her transformation is gradual so it's realistic that by the time you realize you love her, you forgot why she had to learn so many lessons to begin with.

I disliked the hero as much as I loved the heroine. Yeah she messed up and he had his justifications blah blah and I get that the book was illustrating the historical reality of women's powerlessness in a marriage but his inner monologues were tedious as well. I could have even understood his treatment if the grovel was enough but it was not worthy for Katherine.

Last critique - that cover is unfortunate