The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

THIS is how you write a romance

This was SUCH a sweet and delightful historical-romance!!!!!! I'm So Glad there's a second book, because I need more of these characters!!!!!!!

I really wanted to like this adventure mystery. I just love this cover and it looks like such a fun read. I don't know what was missing for me. I think some inconsistencies for me stood out and would not leave me alone. Percy “stalks” Kit and I guess I just don't understand how Kit or his partner didn't notice Percy sitting in the shop. Someone who is a criminal would notice someone new staring at them all the time. Just saying.

Then there is what happens in the end and I was all...wtf? Yeah, it really just left me with a foul taste in my mouth.

I really liked this book (as I think my rating indicates) possibly because I didn't really expect to. Look, several of my friends that like Sebastian's work and who are less picky than me, were somewhat disappointed in this book. I wasn't expecting a lot, and I won't know for certain until I reread it, but I think this is in my top three favorite Sebastian romances.

See, I like Percy and I like Kit both as people, and I like them together. They bring out the best in each other, are so supportive and caring towards each other and (something that I value more with each passing year) are delightfully low angst. And the plot itself was such fun and had me putting things together just ahead of our boys.

(Side note: Percy is gay and Kit is bi, but Percy is Kit's first man in many, many ways - which is something I'm discovering a major fondness for.)

Really enjoyed listening to this one. The characters were fun, the writing was good. The ending was sooo sweet and cute

This was genuinely SO GOOD. I will absolutely be reading the next one.

Slow-ish burn M/M historical romance set in the 1750s or so. I liked it a lot, but there was much less highwayman training than I expected from the blurb. The whole inheritance plot seemed weirdly paced and even after reading it, I'm not quite sure how that all got wrapped up. Since the female lead of the next book is Marian, I expect that'll all be cleared up further in that one, but while I liked this, don't read it for the highway robbery.

A fun historical romance. Lots of glancing at each other and tension which is my favorite part of historicals. Slow burn, which is my favorite type of romance.
The overall plot doesn't wrap up since this is going to be a series but the character story wraps up nicely so who cares what those other side characters were up to.

Almost DNF's but plodded through to the end. Good banter and flirtation between Kit and Percy, but I never bought that they were desperately in love. The plot limited all of the action to one scene, and even that was anticlimactic. I understand this is part of a duology, but it felt like all of the important action was happening off-page to the other couple. Not my favorite by this author, by far.

Sebastian hasn't been a hit with me but I'm a sucker for M/M historical romance so I was still excited to read this one, especially with its cute cover (rather than the usual horrible photoshop Fabio-esque covers on most M/M romance). However, I was again disappointed.
I didn't really get any chemistry between the two leads - it plays on the enemies to lovers trope but their eventual fondness for each other doesn't read organic and the eventual sex scene seemed forced, like the author threw it in as an afterthought to appease her audience. Especially the fact that it ends on a bit of a sour note (not a euphemism) and is then never really mentioned again.
There was also a lot of buildup in the highway robbery/revenge plot that went out on a super anticlimactic ending then a cliffhanger. There should have been a lot more focus on the development of that instead of all the coffeeshop scenes. It didn't feel believable or historically accurate at all.

This was a fast, sometimes cute read but overall unmemorable. The second book in the series is also going to focus on the M/F relationship that was barely a background blip in this story, so it seems pointless to continue with the series. If this is your first foray into M/M and/or historical romance, there are better places to start.