I raced through Hyacinth in one evening. Regency historical romance tends to bog down in descriptions of the ton and its rigid social mores and not have a lot of pizzazz, so I really welcomed a novel with a neuro-divergent heroine with an aversion to touch and a wounded hero. These two do their best to break free of societal expectations. Throw in a bit of gender-bending and cross-dressing, and you have an interesting romance. The heroine, a rather plain woman, is also a brilliant mathematician. The BSDM-light sex is explicit but not nauseatingly so, just be forewarned if you’re a bit squeamish about such. Altogether, a fun, sexy, very unusual Regency novel.
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