Unclaimed

(3.5 stars, rounding up.) Didn't like this as much as I expected to, though I did still enjoy it. If “male virgin seduced by courtesan-in-disguise” is a common romance trope, it's one I haven't encountered before, and I did enjoy it. The plot got a little repetitive in the first half and I had a hard time keeping interest, but the author did a good job conveying the chemistry between the two leads. The book picked up for me in the second half, and I think it's because that's when other characters finally showed up - I'm not a huge fan of “let's have everyone from book one in a series show up in book two” or anything, but both the leads were really isolated in this book (for Plot Reasons, of course). I understand why they were but it did make for somewhat monotonous reading, since they were both in their own heads a lot. By the end, though, I really did enjoy this book, I just wish the trip to get there had been a little better paced.