I overall enjoyed this book, which did its best to be a fun frothy historical romp, but I do think some pretty serious things were handwaved or included without any interrogation. 

The fun parts were quite fun. It's a fast paced romp where a truly terrible man is tricked out of his fortune and it was cathartic to see his downfall. I did like the relationship between Lando and Kit, and it was also nice to read about a household that truly did feel secure for them to be together behind closed doors without fear of discovery. 

I've read from the author before, including a few from the modern day Rossingley-verse, and generally get on with their writing. However, some things that gave me pause (literally stopped me reading for a bit before continuing and thought about whether I would):

unnecessary fat shaming of a side character (along with a very cavalier attitude/wish for his premature death for convenience's sake?)

-- this is a brief moment in the book, but it was a bit of a record scratch for me. 

Then there is the scheme to divest Gartside of his assets, which includes a

cotton mill (of course Lando pays his workers more than the average mill owner). When he sets up the ruse, it is passingly mentioned that his American supplier of cotton doesn't use slave labor. Uh, really? You're confident of that?

I know this might be nitpicking, but I'm picking at nits the author included in the story.

Lando's wife died while giving birth many years ago, which is spoken of pretty lightly. I would have liked to have some more about how they were good friends and he missed her, but it felt very 'I've got my heir and spare off her, moving on!' If the point was meant to be that life was very fragile and precarious and many women died in childbirth back then, I feel like a moment could have been spent on extrapolating that idea. Instead, her death was contrasted for me by Lando's three years of uninterrupted mourning for his male lover.

There's also a passing mention of Kit having Rom(ani) heritage, which accounts for his 'olive' complexion, and it feels like it didn't need to be mentioned if it wasn't going to be explored beyond a reason for their differing skin tones? 

I feel like a lot of the things that pulled me out of the book could have been interrogated a bit more deeply, possibly a few lines of dialogue or paragraph of inner thoughts could have integrated them more naturally into the book and it would have elevated my rating.