reading_srsly's review
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
shadowmaster13's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic
nasselin's review against another edition
5.0
If I could give a book series at 10/10, this series would definitely get it. Full of suffragette history and strong women, this series goes far in providing strong women characters. The men of the book also provide agency to the women, and it's so refreshing to read. Victoria Thompson is QUEEN of the historical mysteries, and I will read all of them.
deby's review against another edition
4.0
This entry in the series was satisfying as always. The characters are strong and well-developed. I enjoy the writing in Victoria Thompson's books more than I enjoy the writing in many historical mysteries or adventures. The plots are inventive and entertainingly complex, if far fetched at times. I look forward to reading the next one (and to reading the next entry in the Gaslight series).
slc333's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars. An entertaining read. I do enjoy Elizabeth and how she brings her interesting past to bear in her new life. I also like Anna and how keen she is to help. Actually I like all the characters - Gideon and his understanding and support for for Elizabeth, Jacob, Elizabeth's whole family.
puria's review against another edition
5.0
This was a good book that kept me guessing. I could see the weaving of the plot all around me but I couldnt figure out how it was done and what the final picture would look like and I quite enjoyed it. These books are always a delightful heist book combined with a historical lesson of sorts. This one talked about the returning soldiers and the conditions post war, post flu.
I know in this day and age it astounds me that they keep pulling off capers in the same city and go unrecognized but I can see how things were very different a hundred years ago.
I am adding a star for the LGBTQ+ characters that are prominent in the book.
I know in this day and age it astounds me that they keep pulling off capers in the same city and go unrecognized but I can see how things were very different a hundred years ago.
I am adding a star for the LGBTQ+ characters that are prominent in the book.
rebecca_isreading's review against another edition
4.0
Thanks to the publisher, via Netgalley, for an advance e-galley for honest review.
This series continues to be really enjoyable, and in this fourth book, Elizabeth and Gideon have to deal with some rude interruptions and challenges as they are planning for their wedding. The cons that are being run in this story are often humorous, and Elizabeth's way of using her knowledge of cons and schemes to really help those in their circle is so clever and interesting to read. Combined with the look into post-WWI New York City society, this makes for another great book in this series.
This series continues to be really enjoyable, and in this fourth book, Elizabeth and Gideon have to deal with some rude interruptions and challenges as they are planning for their wedding. The cons that are being run in this story are often humorous, and Elizabeth's way of using her knowledge of cons and schemes to really help those in their circle is so clever and interesting to read. Combined with the look into post-WWI New York City society, this makes for another great book in this series.
argentrabe's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
lebron_librarian's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
leighannsherwin's review
5.0
In the forth installment of this series Elizabeth is planning her wedding. The war is over, I believe it's early 1919, soldiers are returning home, some with brides they met in Europe in tow. In this book Elizabeth and her family return to their grifter roots which they haven't focused on as much in the last few books. There are two main cons going on that sort of end up overlapping toward the end of the book but the whole book is really a twisted web of many different plots and schemes which lines up with the title of the book. First up Gideon's old friend Logan has returned from war. He fell madly in love with a young French woman named Noelle, but had to leave her there due to his engagement to Rosemary back home. Not long after getting home he gets a letter from Noelle begging for a large sum of money to escape post war France. Gideon suspects a con and calls in Elizabeth to help fish out what's really going on. Meanwhile eager to keep her name out of the papers Elizabeth, Gideon and his mother are horrified to see their engagement announced in every single gossip column in New York. Unfortunately for them a blast from the past, Oscar Thornton from I believe book one? Has returned to the city just in time to see the notice and he wants revenge. After learning that Rosemary leaked the story Elizabeth sets out for revenge of her own against the snobby debutante setting up a hilarious scene between Elizabeth and Gideon at a dinner party. There's spies, Bolsheviks, and plots galore in this very entertaining addition to the Counterfeit Lady series. I love that it's so unique and unlike any other series I have read and continues to be enjoyable and I look forward to following Elizabeth and Gideon in their married life.