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A review by books_ergo_sum
The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan
emotional
5.0
I loved it, are we surprised? (Actually, I kind of was—but I’ll get to that in a second)
✨ Friends to lovers + a lifetime of pining
✨ Widowed heroine
✨ Secret identity
✨ Late 19th century evolutionary biology with a specialization in plants
(Fun fact: Mr. Books_Ergo_Sum is an evolutionary biologist with a specialization in plants and I know way more about Linnaean taxonomy, enantiostyly, and sporogenesis than any layperson has any right to 😆)
But when I started this, my mind went straight to ‘oh no another friends to lovers with grandfathered-in intimacy from another timeline, how good could this possibly be?’
Extremely good, it turned out. Because instead of a meet-cute and on-page falling, this book was all about the on-page tenderness of an already established relationship. And we went in HARD. They hid the extent of their closeness by speaking in code, they cared about each other so freaking much, and I’ve never read a romance where the two MCs were this aware of each other in every scene, even from across the room.
Add in some great character arcs and family dynamics drama and look at me—I’m giving a friends to lovers book five stars!
✨ Friends to lovers + a lifetime of pining
✨ Widowed heroine
✨ Secret identity
✨ Late 19th century evolutionary biology with a specialization in plants
(Fun fact: Mr. Books_Ergo_Sum is an evolutionary biologist with a specialization in plants and I know way more about Linnaean taxonomy, enantiostyly, and sporogenesis than any layperson has any right to 😆)
But when I started this, my mind went straight to ‘oh no another friends to lovers with grandfathered-in intimacy from another timeline, how good could this possibly be?’
Extremely good, it turned out. Because instead of a meet-cute and on-page falling, this book was all about the on-page tenderness of an already established relationship. And we went in HARD. They hid the extent of their closeness by speaking in code, they cared about each other so freaking much, and I’ve never read a romance where the two MCs were this aware of each other in every scene, even from across the room.
Add in some great character arcs and family dynamics drama and look at me—I’m giving a friends to lovers book five stars!