Arianna Mandorino's Reviews > The Matrimonial Advertisement

Choosing the five stars "it was amazing" rating because THE HISTORICAL DETAIL… SO GOOD!!!!!!!
a few quick points
• very believable plot
• the heroine struggles with real problems tied to her legally being considered property and not her own person and it was very well done in my opinion
• somehow one of the sexiest heroes i've ever read about and there's not even half a sex scene in the novel
• *horrific* depictions of Victorian "medicine" and "cures" for mental illness depicted
• the Romance. the Romance!!!! when they walk along the beach and the ribbons of her bonnet get in her face and they barely know each other but he'd already die for her? good. very good
• His lips brushed over her hair. “Didn’t I tell you I’d go to the ends of the earth for you?”
• me: SCREAMS
• “It’s what he’d always imagined married life would be like. A level of comfort with a woman. A sense that she accepted him. All of him.”
• me: cries
• the hero was a soldier in India and he explicitly sympathised with Indians BUT I do think there should've been a larger discussion around colonisation as the one event that's recounted in detail is one massacre of British women and children in India and that's… not the full perspective