At Last Comes Love
Mary Balogh
Overall: 3/5
Plot and themes: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Writing style: 3/5
Attention-grabbing: 4/5
At Last Comes Love is a regency romance following Margaret and Duncan. Margaret is a spinster, she spent the glory of her youth caring for the siblings which her parents left orphaned. Now, her former lover has returned a widow and has the audacity to think their marriage is a given. She hopes to finally agree to a repeated marriage proposal, only to find herself alone on the dance floor. She happens to run straight into Duncan, the only person in the whole room more desperate for a fiancee than her.
I thought the whole story was fun and entertaining with a very nice underlying message. Obviously, our present society doesn't think of 30 as quite the spinster sentence that it seemed in the 1800s, but the thought that you're never to old to form a new bond or start a new chapter of your life resonates nicely even in present day. The two mains also had a nice balance between awkward getting to know each other and real chemistry that I though made the book a lot more believable.
My biggest issue was the idea of Lauren and Tobias and his whole hidden family. It was framed in a way that would take as much blame as possible away from Duncan because we obviously can't have a main protagonist who isn't secretly a saint. But also, the way that Margaret reacted to it all at the end just made me like her so much less as a character. She very much picks and chooses what she sees as morally correct even after having been taught a lesson about everything not being as it seems. Even if you get past that, she was justifying abuse and stuff at a level I just didn't get behind.
Other than that though, I thought it was a nice light romance with just enough depth to be realistic. I would recommend it for fans of this genre and just romance in general.
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