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max_pink's review
4.0
4 Stars
Tropes: Bluestocking, Aristocratic Hero, Guardian, Pirates
Content Warning: Attempted SA, Attempted Murder, Child Endangerment
This was so cute! Olympia has recently become the guardian to her three nephews, upending her life and distracting her from her research into legends and lost treasure. But help arrives in the form of Chillhurst, a cool, collected, no-nonsense man (who looks like a pirate, eye patch and all) who delivers her uncle's shipment of goods to the house and becomes her nephew's tutor. Sounds great, except Chillhurst isn't a tutor at all. He's a Viscount, and he shows up to buy a diary containing clues to a long-lost fortune from her. And then he sees her, is immediately down bad, and comes up with the tutor lie to stay around her. But that treasure looms, and nefarious characters hang in the shadows, waiting for their chance to strike.
This did not quite grab my soul in the way that Ravished did, but I still enjoyed this a lot. The somewhat slower pace was balanced out by incredible humor. Between the prickly housekeeper Mrs. Bird, the three cute but disastrous nephews, and Chillhurst's own meddling family, I cackled at multiple points in this book. There's a lot of fun to be had. And I appreciated Chillhurst both getting celebrated for his cool-headedness and getting to grow into a man who actually can embrace feeling a feeling.
Solid audio narration from Anne Flosnik.
Tropes: Bluestocking, Aristocratic Hero, Guardian, Pirates
Content Warning: Attempted SA, Attempted Murder, Child Endangerment
This was so cute! Olympia has recently become the guardian to her three nephews, upending her life and distracting her from her research into legends and lost treasure. But help arrives in the form of Chillhurst, a cool, collected, no-nonsense man (who looks like a pirate, eye patch and all) who delivers her uncle's shipment of goods to the house and becomes her nephew's tutor. Sounds great, except Chillhurst isn't a tutor at all. He's a Viscount, and he shows up to buy a diary containing clues to a long-lost fortune from her. And then he sees her, is immediately down bad, and comes up with the tutor lie to stay around her. But that treasure looms, and nefarious characters hang in the shadows, waiting for their chance to strike.
This did not quite grab my soul in the way that Ravished did, but I still enjoyed this a lot. The somewhat slower pace was balanced out by incredible humor. Between the prickly housekeeper Mrs. Bird, the three cute but disastrous nephews, and Chillhurst's own meddling family, I cackled at multiple points in this book. There's a lot of fun to be had. And I appreciated Chillhurst both getting celebrated for his cool-headedness and getting to grow into a man who actually can embrace feeling a feeling.
Solid audio narration from Anne Flosnik.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Violence
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adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Kidnapping