Katherine Marlowe

This seemed a rather academic romance, as most of the book is spent with the two characters discussing the philosophy of love in detail, obviously influenced by Plato's [b:The Symposium|81779|The Symposium|Plato|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1520522475l/81779._SY75_.jpg|1488719] which the two main characters are reading. I enjoyed how the plot allowed a kind of exploration of several aspects of Regency England's ideas on sex - the characters visit a brothel, an orphanage/workhouse, a molly house, a play, church, a party, the countryside, etc. in efforts to prove to one another whether or not love actually exists and how to define it. There's also a lot of actual poetry which I enjoyed.
Of course, over all this, they end up falling in love with each other. It's a very slow burn romance between two engaging characters with a HEA.… (mehr)

Marlowe's writing seems to be hit or miss for me, and this one was a miss. It really drags through these little interactions and drama of the side characters that have little to do with the story other than aggravate the MC. As many other reviewers said, it also seems pretty historically inaccurate about the interactions between servants and servants with their employers. There's also little romance here, just a teenage-style infatuation that didn't appeal to me and wasn't even the main plot point in the book. If you want to read about the hijinks of an rich, naïve Georgian eccentric and the trouble he puts literally everyone he knows through, then you might enjoy this but otherwise I'd give it a miss.… (mehr)