Keep your friends close. Keep your nemesis closer.
After nearly five years of avoiding him, Briggs Goswick may be many things, but after humiliating me at a ball several years ago, he is primarily my arch-nemesis.
His presence has made this summer go from bad to…complicated. I have the weight of saving my family’s name and finances solely on my shoulders, but I have another idea—a business venture—to save my family. All I need are investors. And as for Briggs? He’s hiding a secret as he’s flat broke.
His society connections can boost me from near obscurity to help me win over investors for my business. And perhaps I can help him woo an aloof heiress with deep pockets. It’s a long shot. It might even work…but do I want it to?
Witty in Pink by Erica George
3.75 ⭐
This filled the regency sized hole that a trip to the English countryside always brings me and I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect time to read it! I was hooked from the beginning and loved the summery, sunshine feel it brought me. I really enjoyed our main character’s rivalry as the author struck the perfect balance between spiteful and playful and I found their banter hilarious. I could also be invested in the slow-burn romance as the backstory setup was the perfect conflict to come between them. Where this book started to derail for me a bit was around the 80% mark. We have a scene where 21st century sex standards were imposed on regency society and it just didn’t work. The character’s argument for this was that it was founded on ‘trust’, but then a few pages later that ‘trust’ completely disappears at the slightest conflict. Then we have a feminist moment at the end which just didn’t fit either. If you want to write a regency novel, write a regency novel. A big reason I love to escape into the past is because I don’t have to worry about politics or popular culture. The regency age wasn’t perfect, especially when it came to women’s rights, but I don’t think this means we should go try and over-correct it. Overall, I still had a great time reading this book, I just wish the third act had been developed a bit better. Happy Reading 🙂
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