So, this book did an annoying thing again and it's something that happened in the first one as well. Every time the dude was all 'I will kill/hurt/whatever anybody who touches her!!!!!' I basically just sat there going "really??????" For a solid 95% of this novel she's marrying someone else and even if she was marrying you that's not cute, that's one of the warning signs of an abusive relationship. Sometimes, jealousy done well is either a) funny or b) cute/hot/whatever but this was just weird and random and disturbing. 
 For another, this guy was pretty much the guy from the first book with a different backstory. All tortured and sad but somehow I don't care, even though that's totally my kind of character. I love sad, tortured people with sad, tortured backstories. It's totally my thing. Yet somehow I don't care. 
 The prose was good and I liked Pippa, even if I liked her interaction with pretty much everyone more than I liked her interaction with the hero. 
 I'm also getting mightily sick of this series insisting that it's aristocratic characters are better than their non-aristocratic counterparts. What's the difference between Knight and these people? One of them pretends they're way better than they are and it isn't Knight. Sure, Knight's an asshole but so are the rest of these people. Knight just doesn't soothe his conscience by pretending otherwise. 
 Oh and after having two consecutive heroes who are recovering/recovered/former gambling addicts we get this line: "It did not matter that they suffered because her husband was weak-willed." Well, they suffer at least partly because you're an asshole and decided to wallow rather than actually help but sure. Lets perpetuate the idea that addiction and mental illness are about a person being weak willed. That's not harmful at all. That's not something that actually kills people. This' me, genuinely irritated. 
 This' me, for some reason still going to read the next book in the series. Shrug emoji etc.