4.25 If you want your Regency novels with more magic than Temeraire and fewer fey/mythical mages than Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, then this might be the book for you. I can't say I ever enjoyed an epistolary novel quite as much - and I almost can't believe it originated from a letter game. The one big drawback it had the quite predictable romance sub-plot. It was also a little hard to separate the voices at times, which is strange since they were written by different people. The characters come across as distinct though.