The Midnight Bargain

The Midnight Bargain is a fun fantasy of manners novel that kept me turning the pages wanting to know how Beatrice's attempts to make it through Bargaining Season with lots of magic and no betrothals went???especially after she fell for someone in spite of herself.

The romance was a bit closer to insta-love than the slow burn I tend to prefer, but I was rooting for them to get their HEA from the start. But my favorite relationship was the friendship Beatrice forged with her love interest's sister, who was every bit as determined as she to become a sorcerer despite the constraints on women with magic. I especially appreciated that this had both a romance and a major character who just didn't want to marry, regardless of whether or not it had any effect on her own magic.

This is the sort of book that I found fun to read one time but didn't stick with me enough that I expect to reread it, although I really appreciate C. L. Polk's skill at writing a book that distracted me from the world in 2020!

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