A typical Julia Quinn book, so if you like the Bridgerton series you'll be happy with this one. I had moments where I was having a fun time, and moments where I was frustrated, so it was a bit of a mixed bag for me. It also sometimes feels like J Q leaves in placeholder dialogue and scenes that should have been cut or fleshed out properly.

I read this for a local book club and if I had planned ahead I would have read the first book in the series, which might have given me more context for Olivia's character. She's particularly bland, so maybe J Q was assuming the reader would already have a sense of her personality from the previous book? Harry was a lot more interesting and sympathetic to me at the start of the book, but then he made some questionable choices and exhibited a lack of self control that seemed at odds with the character that had been established. I also feel like several of his side-plots were just forgotten like his relationships with his brother and sister. I assume his friend Sebastian shows up in another J Q book somewhere, because he gets a lot of page time and seems primed to be a leading man in another story.

As always, I loved the running gag of the Smythe-Smith musicale and Rosalyn Landor's narration.