Dnf at 10%. I simply can’t continue. This author clearly did not research. I was confused by the way she wrote and addressed nobility (or a “royal” according to her). It’s written like a young person who’s read a lot but didn’t do any of her own research. All of the many mistakes are easily googlable. These KU authors seriously need editors. 

So many mistakes. Why is every noble title capitalized? Ex. I’m as Lady. He’s a Duke. Earl or no Earl. Stop. Capitalize it when referencing the Duke of Whitehaven. Not every time it’s written. It’s not a proper noun. 

Also. Why is the Duke of Whitehaven’s uncle “Duke Benjamin”. I don’t think they have two duke titles in their family. It he’s uncle to a duke and brother to the former duke, then he’s son to the duke before that. As a second som of a duke, he’d just be Lord Benjamin unless the duke had extra courtesy titles to pass out even to a second son. But even if he is a duke in his own right, he would never be “Duke Benjamin”. He’s be his grace, the duke of X. 

And speaking of “a Lady”. Even if she had written just lady, Lydia wouldn’t be Lady Lydia as the daughter of a baron. She’d be Miss Surname. 

And it doesn’t just stop at titles. We’re told the duke has recently returned from the “Far East”. Then we’re told he’d only been in India. Um. India is not in the Far East. Even if I didn’t know this or there’s a chance it was considered so in the 1800s, a quick Google search tells you this isn’t so. The Far East was a popular phrase in the 1800s to refer to countries in Asia east of India (namely ones colonized by Britain). So if he’s been in India, he just say he was in India. 

So if one is going to write in this time period, one really must be more researched. Avid regency readers like myself can always tell when they aren’t.