I love how Kowal writes her characters. The relationships are all so important to how the plot advances. And they get strained for sure, but she definitely shows how "love triumphs" through sheer stubbornness and refusal to be broken.

I also love the cons and reverse cons in the book. It's a regency fantasy heist novel, which is something I didn't know I wanted but was absolutely fantastic in its execution. Attacks by pirates, husband and wife plotting, post-Napoleonic European politics, it's all here. And done so well.