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Before I begin:
Brother’s best friend?! A lady explaining the underbelly of society?!
Chapter 5
Reminds me of Getaway Girl (start off with a wedding). 💡 Both are weddings gone wrong 🤬 Getaway Girl was good so 🤞🏼 it’s a good sign 😊 Get early exposure to family dynamics 😊 Interesting 🤨 turn of events 😊😇 Learn early on Kieran, Finn, and Dom need to marry and that brings Celeste and Kieran closer 😏 setting up the story 🙌🏼
- Common in scoundrel/rake stories: being unworthy 🧐 Glad to know Dom-Willa get a book 😍 Feel its too early to see how I feel about Celeste-Kieran 🧐 But I always love a strong h 👍🏽 Like the comment that note Celeste is a scoundrel 🤫 information ℹ️ is power and the gossip Celeste holds 🤯 That’s why I keep notes on ALL my reading 😂😇 Haven’t DNF’d yet. That’s why I employ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ so I don’t feel bad for giving ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😏😊😇
Chapter 10
See their arrangement in action 😏 See both Keiran chaperoning Celesta (Salame) at gambling hells and Celeste taking Kieran to society events 🤔 The fact Dom now knows 🤬 I get his job perspective
- 👍🏽 H in boxes 🤔 A common thought among this season’s scoundrel’s is becoming a scoundrel is what’s expected of them 🥲 Kieran is very 🧛♂️-like 😁 Think I understand brother’s best friend now 🤔 Trope I always liked ♥️ Best friends know some of your darkests secrets, so I can understand the protectiveness ⚠️ Lost my spot on the thread 🤬
- Likewise, can’t say either way if I’m an Eva Leigh stand (remember the roadtrip to an orgy). Again we encounter the plight of the >2nd son 🤔 Agree, more to Dom-Willa please 🙏🏾 The talk between Dom-Kieran was intense 🤬
- This kind of goes back to expectations of >2nd sons 🤔 I, also, ❤️ Celeste & Kieran’s talks! There’s a lot to unpack
Chapter 15
Things get 🌶-er between Kieran and Celeste. Baccanel 😊🙌🏼👏🏽 Ratcliff reminds me of London’s Perfect Scoundrel, in that, the h is giving and charitable. Also deals with literacy (appropriate for a book club 😇). Celeste seeing the different facets of Kieran 😍 Lord Mumford getting suspicious 🤔
- What measures are Finn and Dom taking? 🤷🏽♀️ True, they are kind to each other 😍
Chapter 19
Reread poetry reading scene 🙌🏼😊😍 in this section, Celeste and Kieran get intimate 🙌🏼 Intimate scenes can shed some light on the relationship. In this scene, Kieran shares his poetry and Celeste graciously takes it in 😍 The act of having sex is Celeste taking ownership of her body 🙌🏼 Left off at a ball 😏
End of book 📖
This story was nice and cute ☺️ Not too angsty 👍🏽 Liked how the conclusion of Mumford-Celeste wasn’t dramatic 👏🏽 Felt this was a solid conclusion to the season 🙂😁
- May not have gotten a kidnap… blackmail 🤬 will do 🤣 Montford did go villainous 😤😡 2nd Dom’s I also 2nd chance 💡 I, also, picked up on Lottie (if I misspelled anything, I’m sorry 🙏🏾). They did kidnap a whole house last book 😂😇 The patriarchy is always the villain ✊🏽
- Prefer the beginning of stories 🤔 ♥️ HEAs 😍😆😁 This story had a slow start, but I was invested by the end 🙌🏼 Depending on the book, might be down for spoilers of other books 🤔 🧐
