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*cries* *throws up* *rends garments* *pledges self to Ilya and Shane forever*

If someone had told me this was a mild gentle lorge/grumpy smol pairing earlier I would have read this whole series by now 😍

Doesn't quite scratch that Aussie Noir itch. Its OK. Audiobook narrator is not great.

I don't know about this one. I am big fan of CS Pacat but when I heard this book was YA, I was a little hesitant. Nothing wrong with the genre, but I tend to find it a little simplistic sometimes (which is fine, I'm not the target audience). I decided to give it a try anyway and I'm afraid to say it hasn't done much for me yet. I'll give it a little longer but I'm feeling like it's a DNF.

I'm finding this one a touch of a disappointment after reading The Duchess Deal. Early days, but I dislike the entire setup. A village heavily catering to ladies where the tavern has been replaced by a delicate little cake shop? That grates - I'd have just preferred the ladies use the tavern. Stuff like that. Anyway, tbc.

I don't normally post updates mid read these days but OH MY GOD THIS BOOK IS SO AMAZINGLY GOOD

I didn't think I'd like this at first but it grows on you.

I love Alice. Ready to dropkick Henry and his piety.

Not sure what I'm missing here. Glowing reviews all around but I struggled to 40% before DNFing.

DARIEN. YOU ARE WAY TOO GOOD FOR THIS CONDESCENDING PRICK.

I do like this series, even though it has a bit of that "this person is very very smart because they speak in big words and use formal sentence structure".

This is getting raves and at this point

Enjoyable, but not as good as Chloè Brown imo

If Lily Morton is always this good, I need to check out her entire back catalogue IMMEDIATELY. This is absolutely gorgeous.

Bit of a convoluted start but it's found it's feet, I think.

I'm finding this a bit convoluted.

This is taking me way longer than it should. Blame the election for distracting me. It is excellent, I'm just unable to commit much brainspace to it.

This is every bit as good as I was expecting.

This book is DELIGHTFUL.

This has glowing reviews but I'm five chapters in and am really wondering why. Maybe when the other MC is introduced, but it's taking a long while to get to that point. I'm listening to the audio book so that percentage is an estimate, and tbh I'm not loving the narration or the production choice of adding music at the beginning of every chapter.