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A review by thelilbookwitch
The Autumn Bride by Anne Gracie
4.0
I loved the premise for this one, a found family of girls rescue an older woman from her neglectful servants who claims them as her nieces after their attempt at burglaring her went awry in a positive way-- her real nephew arrives home to find these imposters and (allegedly) sparks fly.
I expected it to be more of a historical romp than a drama, and it never quite threaded the needle between the two. There were moments of levity where I did find myself laughing at scenarios, but I found it difficult to enmesh myself in the world partially because I'm not as fluent with the historic vocabulary for thinks ranging between etiquette, clothing, and foods.
The chemistry between the two leads felt forced and simultaneously rushed as they didn't get a lot of time together for anything organic to develop. It also didn't deliver enough content to be anywhere near the realm of my "certified steamy" tag unfortunately, because it had such great potential!
A lot of over use of certain phrases also brought me out of my enjoyment. "Good god" and Abby describing Max as a "viking" literally every chapter, sometimes more than once within that chapter. For such a well-read woman, I was disappointed she wasn't more creative with her pining.
I'm going to hopefully give the second one in the series a try and then make a final decision about if this author is right for me or not.
I expected it to be more of a historical romp than a drama, and it never quite threaded the needle between the two. There were moments of levity where I did find myself laughing at scenarios, but I found it difficult to enmesh myself in the world partially because I'm not as fluent with the historic vocabulary for thinks ranging between etiquette, clothing, and foods.
The chemistry between the two leads felt forced and simultaneously rushed as they didn't get a lot of time together for anything organic to develop. It also didn't deliver enough content to be anywhere near the realm of my "certified steamy" tag unfortunately, because it had such great potential!
A lot of over use of certain phrases also brought me out of my enjoyment. "Good god" and Abby describing Max as a "viking" literally every chapter, sometimes more than once within that chapter. For such a well-read woman, I was disappointed she wasn't more creative with her pining.
I'm going to hopefully give the second one in the series a try and then make a final decision about if this author is right for me or not.