I always enjoy a little mystery with my historical romance, although I didn‘t quite feel the chemistry between the two main characters.
2.5⭐️
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I always enjoy a little mystery with my historical romance, although I didn‘t quite feel the chemistry between the two main characters.
2.5⭐️
#netgalley #arc
Starting off Hoyt's new series, this enemies-to-lovers was engaging. I looooove Hoyt's incorporation of fairy tales into chapter headers, and she chose a tale which bounced interestingly off the main plot. The family drama which she's setting up for this series is nicely enticing. However, the alternate history with secret societies of witches and witch-hunters felt a little out of place. It's a historical romance; you don't have ADD misogyny.
This is an enemies-to-lovers-with-a-second-chance romance that dabbles a bit in secret societies (this one doesn‘t go in for sex cults like the one at the end of Maiden Lane, thank god). I liked Freya but I really liked how Hoyt dug into questions of how women were treated in marriage - legally - in the 18th century and how Christopher chooses to allow Freya to make up her own mind without getting overly possessive or seducing her into agreement.