Status Updates From North and South

Yeah, I'm running out of patience with Mr. Hale with every turn of the page 🫠

I'm just laughing at how without meaning to—if one wanted to, you really could find so much of what has so many romance readers in a chokehold nowadys in this book. You got a male protagonist that's "tall & broad" (totally headcanoning a minimum of 6'3 here sorry not sorry), a slow burn lite E2L tention simmering, and now apparently an age gap trope thrown in between Margaret & Mr. Thornton. Hilarious, really

Elizabeth Gaskell lowkey outdoing all contemporary romance writers in just five sentences describing how Mr. Thornton can't stop staring at Margaret fiddling with a bracelet that falls over and over from her arm to her wrist..... HER MIND