⌞giselle⌝’s Reviews > The Great Misfortune of Stella Sedgwick > Status Update

“imagine knowing all of the things a person could be in the world, and deciding to be prejudiced. sometimes I pity them. being hateful just seems so miserable.” FACTSSS

this is so Bridgerton-coded & I'm loving it every second of it. KISS HER ON THE COLLARBONE AGAIN! AGAIN & AGAIN!

'I pull away. the mood has changed, now heavy with a dangerous, alluring electricity that threatens to unravel me.' AW SOOKIE SOOKIE NA! kiss, make love, even!

'is it shameful to reap the benefits of money made from the backs of our tortured ancestors, or satisfying to have broken the lily-white line of inheritors?' um, I'd say it's satisfying to inherit a manor!

'he gestures ambivalently to the crowd and whispers, "be proper with other men, but not with me." I feel a stunning jolt in the pit of my stomach. it's horrible, but it's perfect at the same time.' I'M SWOONING, ugh <3

Stella is trying so hard to be surly to cover her insecurities… it was cute for the first 14 chapters… but now I need her character growth & SOON! 😒

this story is sweeping me away! I'm in 1860s England at the opera & not at the circulation desk, waiting to lose the library. ugh, dreamy 💕

okay so boom: Stella is called back to Fitzroy manor, where she grew up with the Fitzroys as the nursemaid's daughter... in a turn of events, she is set to inherit the property, but only if she marries, being Black & a woman... Nathaniel, one of the Fitzroy children who Stella grew up with, is some fine shyt... they lock eyes after he's come in from being soaked in the rain... yea... I KNOW HOW THIS IS ABOUT TO GO!!