Jack of All Trades

This is a part of a series but I haven’t read any of
the books before this one and had no trouble understanding
the plot.
I thought the storyline was interesting and well developed.
The characters seems to draw you into the pages it’s a little
emotional at times which makes it a real page turner.
I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book.

Trigger Warnings: infidelity, child birth difficulties, alcoholism, abandonment, women's rights, illegitimacy, social nonconformity.

Well this was my first historical romance, from this author and generally. I think the last time I read a historical novel was Persuasion By Jane Austen hehe. So it's been a while.

But I enjoyed this one a lot. Despite my initial frustration with a couple of characters, I did enjoy it so - plus it gave me a lot of pride and prejudice vibes, I'll be honest.

And despite the time-period being set in 1839 (when the suffragette movement was about to start/had started), I still enjoyed how strong and courageous the women were, and so determined
to make a step into change as well. Ugh, my heart soared (probably heard the exploding sound somewhere by didn't you). The men were the perfect byronic heroes - gosh dang I need to stop imagining them as Mr Darcy but whatever!! They were wonderful except for Ian Grovesdale - blasted kaput Mr Wickham...but nope not bitter about it at all.

And everything was so simple, and plotted out well, even the little misgivings the characters had amongst themselves, was solved in such an uncomplicated way -I just delighted in that so much.

Overall, I can't share my delight and utter amusement about how wonderful and addictive this novel was - and how peaceful it made me feel in a long time, since having had a rocky start this year.

So yeah, I was grateful, appreciative and full of confidence that the next historical romance written by Kate will be even more fantastic and delightful than this one.