Kitty Curran

What a delightfully tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted, teasing, playful read! Regency isn't super my genre, but even I recognise the tropes and archetypes as they are played with and paraded across the stage here - and I found the tone of the choices offered definitely a delight, poking fun at the reader as well as the story itself.

Naturally I had to go through and find all the endings - which I think I did? I may have to reread it sometime to be sure, and just because it's such fun! - which kept me engaged and giggling and flipping back and forth for a good three hours or so. It was fun to recognise the paths of the 'main leads' basically for one's choices . . . but it was also fun to find a few minor character surprise romance endings peppered in there!… (meer)

At this point I've gotten I think most of the endings that involve Benedict (my fav bachelor), so I feel competent to comment on it.

This is mad fun. It's ridiculous and bawdy at times, silly and charming at others. As a long time fan and reader of romances from the Regency era I found a lot to be familiar tropes - the dragon dowager, marriages of convenience, seedy theatre type folk, secluded corners and potted plants large enough to hide you from view as you passionately make out.

Regency England had A LOT of large potted plants that enabled you to hide behind for trysts.

The writers also had a lot of fun with the flowery language of the old and current books. "Her dewy core", "a sheath for his sword"...yeah sounds about right. It's amazing how many words can be used to described the act of sex.

The book doesn't pretend seriousness-not when your life is in danger (roll for seduction wiles!) or the poor souls the heavily brogued Mac wants to help save.

As a CYOA type book it can feel disjointed, as some paths/choices lead to the same establishing outcome, but largely it's just good fun and who doesn't need that?… (meer)