Spoilers in this review.
Regency romance The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy shines (so to speak) when it shows the details of a servant's life in Regency England -- the work that goes into polishing boots, for example. Hero Brandon has to learn such skills when he pretends to be a valet in the household of heroine Rose.
If the rest of the book focused as much on details and less on a rather silly story involving bigamy and a villain who is more pathetic than evil, I would have loved it. As it was, I wanted to know more about Rose's mapmaking, beyond that she learned it growing up, that she works hard at it, and that the maps are whimsical and have details that make me think they must have a scale that approaches 1:1.
While I appreciated that after learning of Brandon's deception Kate took her time trusting him again, it also made the last third of the book drag to the extent that I wanted to nap as much as we are frequently told Kate wants to.
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