This is a good modern historical romance (ie: set in the past but the people behave generally like people and have relatable motives, and the world isn’t mysteriously bereft of queerness or something just because it’s the 1800s) that has some fun twists. I especially enjoyed that the woman takes one look at the guy and is basically like, “oh no, he’s too hot” and has to spend the rest of the book persuading him into bed, essentially. (A nice reversal from the usual blushing virgin routine.)

I found the eventual final conflict and resolution to be pretty rushed, but that’s a romance novel for you. The sex is all well written while being surprisingly generalized — there are a lot of scenes of teasing or extended foreplay through objects — which again, is a nice change up and is interesting to see an author do instead of Yet More Ways to Describe a Penis or what have you.