This' one of those books where I'm not sure whether it was my mood that meant the book didn't work for me or whether the book generally just didn't work for me. I think part of it was that I hated Rene and so was never really invested in 'Rene shouldn't hang'. This loyalty seems doubly strange, to me at least, considering that Napoleon had started waging war again and I mean, I don't know enough about the Napoleonic Wars to say how people in London would have felt about it? Idk. I just didn't become invested in the personal conflict so much, which is a problem in a romance novel. I felt distant from the characters and like they skipped a whole bunch of things. Solomon got to be more angry that Elijah was gay and hadn't told him than he did that Solomon faked his own death and Elijah's "death" caused multiple people to worry that Solomon would kill himself. For another, what about what it did to their parents? I suppose Solomon and his gay brother was something that was easier to deal with plot wise, but idk. 
 It was fine. Not great, not terrible. Didn't connect much with the characters and it didn't feel that urgent. The Napoleonic Wars were fought over more than a decade and I know that England has it's Very Special Island status to make it feel protected, but it didn't feel that important which is weird. 
 It'll be interesting to see what happens with her other books, which are on my TBR list...somewhere.