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There wasn't much detail to identify this book as occurring during the regency and when the H/h were repeatedly put into compromising situations, neither of them cared. Really? He rode over to her cousins estate and then carried her back to his own on his lap and she went along with this? We are told that she feels bad about betraying her cousin with the man she is supposedly betrothed to but she does nothing about it. The "villain", her cousin, Olivia has enough character flaws to sink a battleship. Apparently, she weighs enough to sink one as well as we are made aware of, over and over again, as she is the target of mean spirited jokes by both the H and h and everybody else they know. She is obnoxious and ugly. I get it. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, Caroline exhibits many of the same personality traits but she is beautiful, so it is OK. With such a negative personality was it really necessary to have Alex and his friends speculate about the obviously overweight Olivia's actual weight and then have our sweet heroine cheerily volunteer her true weight when their guess wasn't high enough? I could not like either Caroline or Alex as they both seem nearly as petty and vindictive as Olivia, who is way over the top with no redeeming qualities. I have read the "scandalous sisters" trilogy and it was engaging enough for me to buy this series which is a follow on, especially as it was so highly rated, but I will be more wary in the future. Of course, I may be suffering from sour grapes as Olivia and I both have frizzy orange hair (I prefer to call it curly auburn myself) and green squinty eyes (although I hope mine are only squinty when I'm in a temper as Olivia always seems to be). But I'm lucky, my hero thinks I'm as beautiful today as he thought I was when he married me many years and three children later. In the end, they all got who they deserved. Even if, in my opinion, none of them deserved very much.