Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋 (there was some light emotional pull but ultimately the one scene is just too short and vague to really have enough of what I prefer)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑 (it’s one vague paragraph)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: third person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: Not too far in, about 4% or chapter 2
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, at least a few years in the future
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley in e-book form that I am about 9 months late on (oopsie!)
Why I chose this book: I am always attracted to Grey’s covers
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine

Should I read in order?
This is book 2 of Grey’s Say I Do series and I found it readable alone!

Basic plot:
Rick has no recollection of proposing through letter to a Miss Fine until she shows up on his doorstep, demanding he follow through

Give this a try if you want:
- Regency (my assumption)
- Duke hero
- heroine is a triplet
- some secret keeping
- marriage of convenience vibes
- low steam – 1 open door scene without details

Ages:
- hero is ‘nearing 30’ and I think the heroine is around 20

First line:
“She had a son.”

My thoughts:
I really liked some elements of this book! But ultimately it didn’t work the best for me. I loved the idea of the proposal and really the whole theme for this series.

I enjoyed the heroine – she’s protective and sweet and didn’t have a problem with coming to bargain with and claim the Duke that proposed to her randomly through letter. But as the story went on, I never really loved the hero. I found him rather irritating and didn’t like his reactions to things. He seemed short and impatient with the heroine and while she does call him out on it, I just felt like she deserved better.

The whole triplet’s plot was interesting but I felt a bit weird for the high drama it caused?? I just wasn’t expecting the hero’s reaction over it.

Grey writes lower steam, but I do like how she incorporates tension and kisses in her stories. I am usually left wanting more from her though in this regard.

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 5
Average rating: 3.2 stars
Favorite book: How to Train Your Earl

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- parental death
- reoccurring sickness
Author content warnings? Didn’t see any

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:

 
Safe sex: 

  not sure, there’s no details 

 
How’s the consent? 

  it’s good 

 
Pregnancy/children in story? (Please note this is the best to my memory/note taking. If you see something I missed please feel free to message!) 

  I don’t recall any children or pregnancy in the story – there are children in the epilogue 

 
20% - kiss
37% - kiss
58% - kiss
80% - sex scene (it’s quite vague)