I’m enjoying this series as the books are short, fast paced with a fun wit throughout. They are at times very clever and this novel is no different. A perfect read for a lazy day. ( )

30yo man seduces 18yo girl while solving murder and convinces her to elope after her mother objects.

The servants were super interesting and well written and I’d love to read more about them! ( )

Un po' troppo "leggero": la trama è semplicissima e scontata, i personaggi abbastanza stereotipati e pensati per essere approfonditi su più volumi. La scrittura è semplicissima... non mi ha lasciato nulla, sicuramente adatti a situazioni in cui si ha bisogni di letture assolutamente non impegnative. ( )

Girl sees man as a child, man sees girl as an adult. The wicked mother and sister try to deter the romance. Love wins out for the ugly ducking. Except for the story about the servants, I thought this a bit boring as you can tell from my synopsis. ( )

Yeah...no, not for me. I quite liked the beginning, with plain Jane and beautiful Euphemia, and the crowd of servants at the House for a Season. But as the story developed, it got sillier and sillier. Jane is amazingly young for an 18-year-old - she "hasn't yet put her hair up" at the beginning of the book, and that's how she behaves almost throughout, like a child. There are at least three stories here: Jane and her courtship (which goes wrong in some very convenient ways - mis-delivered messages and gossip that flares and dies with suspiciously precise timing (otherwise known as author fiat)); the mystery Jane is pursuing, which also produces clues with suspicious convenience - and is "solved" by confession, without any real explanation for what clues Jane comes up with; and the servants at 67 Clarges St. I might have liked their story best - I thought I would, at the beginning - but it very quickly devolves into multiple love triangles. This is the _second_ book in this series - what happened with them in the first one? They can't have had all these unrequited love problems, or they wouldn't have been as firmly together as they were at the beginning of this one. Or maybe they did and the author just reset them for this book. Overall, not good - way too many convenient events as the only real plot drivers. I thought I'd read something else by this author and liked it, but I don't see it. I do have one other book by her, and I'll try it - but if it's like this one, I won't bother to read anything else she's written. ( )