A lovely kickoff to a new-to-me series! I love the friendship being built among the wallflowers and, while I found myself hovering around a 3 star for most of the book, from the proposal to the end it picked up quite a bit. Simon and Annabelle were the lovely kind of enemies to lovers where they aren’t even enemies at all, she just thinks they are. All in all, I just thought it was delightful.

I also loved how Kleypas tossed in discussions around class and what sort of divide it causes for people.