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Lost interest and got slightly confused while reading. It seemed to jump around and the plot kind of became an afterthought for me

MMC: Elias - loved.
FMC: Catriona- wanted to smack upside the head.
Loved revisiting the characters from previous books. Especially the first book Bringing Down the Duke, which is still my 5 star favorite. We are told Catriona‘s smart. I guess. The pacing was very slow. Honestly I feel like this story was trying to tackle too many issues at once, and the story didn‘t flow well. I wanted more details on the HEA. Not a vague ending for the couple.

“The word you said earlier, what did it mean?” she asked.
The way he went quiet said he knew at once what she meant.
“Ta‘abrinee,” he said.
“Yes.”
“It means, bury me.”
“Isn‘t that a bit morbid?”
He stroked the back of her hand with his thumb. “We say it to someone we don‘t want to live without. Hence, we must go first.”
Sorta sappy, but if the love isn‘t like this, I don‘t want it!

All the romance books I‘ve read so far in February! Been reading a lot but haven‘t had much time for social media and posting!

Hope everyone else‘s reading is going well this month!

I love her books, this book just got to me. I wish I could have this kind of happy ending. My most recent love story is so similar but instead just ended.

Wasn‘t my favorite of this series, but I still enjoyed the romance. Following Catriona, it concludes with the passage of the Married Women‘s Protection Act, which has been the goal of the 4 suffragette friends. It also deals with some tougher subjects: colonialism & neurodivergence. It did get bogged down with overexplaining the stolen antiquities market & colonialism in the Middle East. Enjoyed the POV chapters featuring the other suffragettes.

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫There was a lot Dunmore was trying to accomplish in this book, & I think that got in the way of her usual easy storytelling. There were many flashbacks for both characters & so much historical information that the main story was sometimes hard to find. I enjoyed all I learned about East/West relations in the late 1800s, unfortunately it just felt a bit heavy handed. I loved books 1 & 3 in this series, tho, and will always recommend those.

Enjoyed this fourth and last book in Dunmore's series.

The story is bogged down with a lot of historical information on the Women's Property Act and 'how to properly obtain antiquities'. It wraps up the series nicely with Catriona's story.

Catriona is forced to work together with foreign scholar Elias. Elias has come to study some statues in a private collection of the Ashmolean, but doesn't only have scholarly pursuits on his mind.

In a world run by loud people, quiet was a scarce commodity.

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Book of the Month: part 2!

These were the other three books I picked this month! I decided to pick the new historical romance by Evie Dunmore, as well as two other earlier books in the series! 💕 #botm

I read 9 books in October:
Fall of Ruin and Wrath 4⭐️
We'll Never Have Paris 4⭐️
Black Sheep 4⭐️
None of This is True 4⭐️ #BookSpin
After the Forest 4.5⭐️ #DoubleSpin
I'm Your Guy 4⭐️
Mister Magic 5⭐️
The Woman in Me 🎧 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Gentleman's Gambit 5⭐️

Read my October Book Spin and Double Spin, but no bingos.

My October #BookSpin list is all set.

This is a fun conclusion to this series. It is Catriona's story but it also wraps up the other girls' stories. Probably better than if they weren't sort of intertwined.

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Pub date is 12/5/23
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This final installment of A League of Extraordinary Women series sees Scottish suffragette Lady Catriona meeting her (check)mate in a businessman from Lebanon planning a heist to repatriate artifacts stolen from his homeland. Dunmore had a lot to do in educating her readers about the Levant and tying up four heroines‘ stories, and while Catriona and Elias‘ love story was satisfying, it wasn‘t very fun—I would have loved more chess and more heist!