I don't read many historical smut books since my youth but this one kept popping up as a recommendation on Audible and I was sick so audible books are the only way to go during times like this so I just picked it up. I didn't want to think. I wanted a little more romance than a Georgette Heyer Novel so I went ahead and grabbed it and just loved it. I thought it was really well done.It was a while back when I read this so I can't do my typical review but the characterization was great, the plot was enjoyable enough and I even shed a few tears (that could be due to the Nyquil) and when I was done, I immediately grabbed up the second one and then the third in the series. Loved them all. Narration was great as I recall.Overall: A winner. Pretty hot but not extremely smutty. Lots of sexual tension and I loved the attention to the costumes. I took a class in school on historical costume- just a thing of mine that I blame on both the Coppola's.-Spuffed This was an okay book that possibly suffered the loss of a star because I read Courtney Milan's "The Suffragette Scandal" around the same time and just clicked with the characters so much more.Leonie Noirot is the last unmarried owner of her dressmaker's shop. It's all up to her (at least in her own mind) to keep the business running. Oh, and to rescue Lady Gladys from her own bad dress sense.Simon Fairfax, the Marquess of Lisburne, has his own family issues to handle. But he's immediately attracted to Leonie and wants to further their acquaintance.Can Leonie run the dress shop, run her family's charity, help Lady Gladys find true love all while finding a love for her own? (Major hint, this is a romance novel)
What do You think about Vixen In Velvet (2014)?
Would have been more interested in a book about Gladys and Swanton tbqh.
—iqbal
