Unmasking Lady Caroline
Mindy Burbidge Strunk
3/5
After pining for him for over ten years, Lady Caroline finally sees Peter, her childhood crush, again and he doesn't recognize her. To be fair, it's a masquerade ball and she's dressed as a peacock, but they flirt and she feels like he takes her seriously for the first time in their lives. When returning to their neighboring estates, he doesn't know it was her and she's afraid to say. But circumstances still pull them together and their relationship builds more naturally.
It's a cute book, looks exactly like the Hallmark movie which it is. I'm stupid because I didn't get the whole Ms Tree thing until they explained it and I thought that Caroline just picked a completely subjective name and they all found it hilarious. The reason that I couldn't rank it higher was because of how preoccupied Peter was with Ms Tree when he talked to her for about five minutes. It wasn't even a particularly witty meet-up, it was just his first conversation with someone after returning from his extended world tour.
I also hated Caroline's relationship with her mother and I feel like there was a missed opportunity with her telling her mom off. I get that she did it a bit and that was nice, it was just kind of weak. The romance was cute but I feel like Lady Caroline had so much more untapped potential. Don't advertise a character as witty and charming if she can't string three sentences together in front of her parents.
Overall though it was pretty enjoyable, short and cute. Just wish the characters had been given a little more room to grow outside of their relationship.
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