Celia Lake's Pastiche
Celia Lake has a million books set in her historical fantasy version of England, and I like the ones I’ve read, though they do nag at my completionist tendencies (there are a bunch of recurring characters, but the series are organized by theme and maybe by era, and I just want to read them all chronologically!!). Anyway, this is one of the earlier ones, timewise, set in 1906, and involves a couple from an arranged marriage gradually falling in love and becoming partners. It’s nice! It’s low stakes, there’s a vague thing where they’re investigating some art, but mostly just living their lives, him being emotionally constipated, her dealing with a chronic illness. I did think the end dragged but this was a nice light read. A-/B+.
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