2.5 stars not rounded up because the ending *headdesk* 
 That was frustrating. 
 I liked most of the characters. And the writing is very good and the setting and historicalness is all wonderful. 
 but this book frustrated me to no end. 
 I full on hated Stella, Fiona, and Charlotte. And Tobias and Martha were little two dimensional minions dancing on puppet strings with Stella controlling them. They hate Rose because ~reasons~ (according to Tobias she puts on airs, which she really and clearly doesn't...). Meanwhile Stella only cares about herself. Which, fine, people are like that. But dear god she had no redeeming qualities. Neither did Fiona or Charlotte. They were just monumentally awful. I get that books need conflict, and I understood why they acted the way they did much of the time - but there is literally nothing to them besides their ambition and anger and hatred. 
 And so much happens in this book. I feel like it needed to be split up and spread out because, honestly, it was just jammed full of one incident after another. Like, once one thing went wrong everything went wrong. 
 I don't know if I'll read the second one. I'm not entirely sure why I finished this one.