The Siren of Sussex

Of course this sounds lovely and exactly like the kind of thing I want to read right now...and oh wait, it doesn't come out till January! Le sigh.

I was reading the audiobook and I was just very uninterested. It just didn't hook me

Really 2.5 but yk half stars. .5 because he sewed pockets into her dresses

Gave it six chapters and it was just so dull. No spark of interest. Then enter spiritualism as a “fad” (which it was, but it's creepy at best and I have Issues with having demon summoning on page) and I'm done. Not worth my time on an overcrowded TBR.

I've liked Mimi Matthews before but this one's not for me.

I honestly hadn't read the blurb before going into this book. It had just be recommended to me by Goodreads. So I was very pleasantly surprised to find the male lead to be a dressmaker of Indian origin.

I love period romances, and this one had a very intriguing premise and characters. I found the two leads to be quite interesting- a dressmaker of Indian origin and a woman whose passion is riding horses. She's in London, for the season, and decides to enlist Mr. Malik - the aforementioned dressmaker - to make habits and later even dresses for her.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the discussion on identity, that of an Indian origin man in London during the Victorian era.

I believe this book sets up a lot of interesting threads that I hope would be broached in the sequels. I am definitely going to pick up the next book at some point.

3.5

Esse livro é um YA disfarçado de roupas do Século XIX.