The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes

This is the kind of read that swept me up and I finished in a few sittings. I took a while to get into it but man oh man, the MCs stole my heart and I was hooked after the first few chapters. The characters, the time period, the romance, I just love it. A fun read for the weekend that got me doing allll the smiling.

Yes yes yes, more grumpy female MCs (“grumpy” is inadequate shorthand for “person who's been through ridiculous amounts of trauma and is closed off and untrusting because of it,” but we'll go with what we know). Loved the dynamic between the two MCs, didn't love how the end is kind of handwavey about what actually happened with the inheritance and the dukedom and all that and I also just didn't buy the plan for them to become a little crime syndicate with Betty, Kit, Percy, and Rob's mother, since it was so vaguely defined. Knocking off a star for all that, especially because I think this is the last one in the series so those ends are just going to stay loose. Cat Sebastian's writing just makes me happy, though.