Enjoyable entry into this long series. Well-paced, particularly when allowing glimpses into mysteries help the plot along. Plenty of humor, enough spice and believable character development for and between the MCs. ( )

Lovely and fun. When Madeleine is left without a source of income after her husband's death she begins earning her keep by quietly effectuating dangerous and sometimes scandalous plans. We meet her here after she has been hired to steal away Colin Eversea mere moments before he is hanged for a murder he did not commit. Mads and Colin are fun and charming and they have a very entertaining adventure where they come to love and trust one another. The problem is Colin is rushing to find a way to stop the wedding of the woman he has loved since he was 13.

I really enjoyed this, big fan of the characters. The beginning was a little bit of a mess, but it hit its stride not too far in and kept me quite entertained. ( )

I enjoyed it and will read more of the series. I like the characters and it's very well written and absorbing. ( )

This will be a shorter review as I took too long in writing this however, I wanted to share my thoughts on this one here.

I found this one to be so intriguing and interesting. I will be honest in that even though it wasn't my favorite of the series, I still enjoyed this installment quite a bit. It was truly fascinating though. I did love that this book was so different than anything that I expected. The only thing that was truly lacking about this one was the lack of the romance. I just didn't quite get the feels between these two here. Maybe I had high expectations from it considering how much I loved all the other books in the series. But I still enjoyed it as a whole of a story. The plot itself was so well done though and I really enjoyed the elements of it that just seemed to work so well together. I really enjoyed the way in which the couple worked their way through the mystery to see who was behind everything.

There was such a rich atmosphere to the London underground in this story and I really adored that. I just adore any books set in this type of setting for Regency. If you love that type of setting, then you definitely will get a kick out of that.

Overall, I had a blast with this one and eager to finish up the last of the series that I have yet to read! Although I will probably keep away from the audiobook as I think that affected my enjoyment. ( )

Regencyfest 2/2016: JAL is a good author, the other PG I read was a delight. This was too plotty, too annoying, COLIN EVERSEA too cheeky and rakish. The writing is good. I'll keep going. Took me way to long to get through this though. ( )