Rebel

This is my Gilded Age Romance Across the Ages Challenge.

I'm really trying not to jinx it, but I'm having a really good start to 2020 when it comes to reading. My average rating is already way higher than last year, and I am very happy for it.

This was another book where our main characters seem to be the only ones who aren't going through a rough time but I still really enjoyed it. I like how Drake's family helped the community, the very idealized version of a mother-in-law, everyone is super emotionally mature, and there is a HEA.

Again, maybe not immensly realistic but made for a good romance during the Gilded Age in American history. The setting in New Orleans during Reconstruction post civil war helped make this story more serious and somber so the perfection in its characters and romance was a good juxtaposition to the other very real issues the community faced.