Bringing Down the Duke

This book was such a fun read! It was our bookclub read, and well, i wil be reading the next volumes of the series to make the month go by <3

As a historical fiction set within the suffragette movement, you know you're going to be dealing with a lot of sexism, true for the times. However, this is delicately portrayed. Anabelle and Sebastian are a very lovable couple.

Parts of it feel like hanging out with friends, and parts of it are a gut punch when you think of all the advances that have been made in women's rights and how much there is more to do.

“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he's a man and I'm a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker's shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?” This part resonated with me.