This book was full of adventure and love. The characters were interesting and I enjoyed the entire book from start to finish. The main love interests in the story were both likable and the added addition of a pet monkey named Kero made Bennett all the more charming in my eyes. The villain of the story, one Captain Langley was a buffoon, but they make great villains, do they not? Phillipa, the main woman in the story, was unlike the rest of the girls in high society and most men didn't spare her a second thought as far as marriage was concerned. Bennett couldn't understand why...he had wanted her from practically the moment he first heard her voice. All the side characters in the story were also well done and I could see myself reading on in the series because the author seems to know how to tell a good story while adding in extra dimension and historical references to things I may not have known before reading this.