wasn't my favorite non-Pink Carnation Willig book but wasn't bad. She mentioned in the Acknowledgements at the end of the book that she struggled with this one, and it sort of shows. It never really felt like the book had any stakes. Imogen foolishly married someone who was uninterested in her and she just was like, eh, my bad. Jane is clearly in love with Arthur and again Imogen doesn't seem to care. Gavin doesn't show up and she frets about it for a bit, but is still like, welp, guess he's not coming..that sucks. I understand women in that time had more restraints on their behavior than now but I would have liked to see Imogen care about something. Yell about something. Struggle for something.

The contemporary romance was also meh for me. I get that both of them had issues of abandonment because of their past, but I didn't really believe that they were going to get a relationship out of it, and yet at the same time I would have liked to see how they navigated the Natalie/Caroline issue.

I gave this 3 stars because it held my attention and didn't annoy me enough to give up on it, but I think it's probably closer to a 2.5. It's not that it's bad, I just know Willig has written better books.