This was a tough one for me to rate. I rounded up a half star cuz I liked it more than my review implies. I do have a deep dislike of instalove, and this is the most instant instalove I’ve come across. Now, I am definitely willing to overlook some ahistorical bits or modern ideas used to move the plot along when it’s well-written and within reason - suspending my disbelief and all that. But for this book, the inaccuracies just made the hero seem, well, weak. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but I believe primogeniture in regency England was pretty non-negotiable. Like, maybe if the heir is deemed incompetent, or gay (which was considered the same in that era), but you couldn’t just write a will threatening to bypass the entail if the son didn’t marry according to his mother’s wishes. And you wouldn’t need a lawyer to figure that out. Maybe if there had been something in the codicil about a vast unentailed fortune that was necessary to keep the estate afloat, I might be more forgiving, but even that is unlikely as it still makes the hero seem kinda pathetic, or at least not very in love with the heroine. Also, I really, really wanted Elizabeth and Angeline to get their comeuppance! I picked this up despite my intense dislike of love triangles because I suspected this to be not a true one. Meaning, I expected the sister to be a villain and that I would have no qualms at her being disappointed. Which was definitely the case, but I still wanted to see the Regency Regina Georges have to eat crow! Just one scene with them being disappointed in the outcome was not enough to satisfy me. Also, a touch of editing would have helped but it wasn’t egregious. The inaccuracies mostly chaffed because they hindered my enjoyment of the characters rather than bolstered the plot. ( )