A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

Audio book

this was... really not it LOL

where's the SLOWBURN? Also why do people's unconventional views on children and marriage always change immediately after their lives have been endangered? It just feels kinda cheap :/

This barely counts as a read because I started skimming through the pages at about 50%. Not even the murder mystery was gripping enough to keep me invested. For a book titled A lady's guide to mischief and mayhem, there was very little of either.

Kate is a widow who inherited a newspaper company from her late husband. While attempting to report on the spate of killings that has gripped London, she becomes entangled with Inspector Eversham, whose professional reputation is in tatters partly due to the unintended effects of her reporting.

Kate and Eversham are boring. They are supposedly fighting their attraction to each other, but to me their chemistry was nonexistent. I was far more interested in Caro and Valentine, who at least seemed to be repressing some strong emotions.

I will say however, that the author's commentary on women's rights/suffrage in this period was one of the few highlights of this book. I like that HRs are consciously adding social commentary. I just think that other books manage to talk about feminism while also being interested and this book filed to achieve that.

I'll probably end up reading the next book because I enjoyed Caro and Valentine. However, this book failed to impress. Leaving it unrated on the off chance that I change my mind upon a reread.