Corduroy’s Reviews > Once Upon a Marquess > Status Update

I want to like this so much, but four chapters in, I find it talky, precious (way, way too much of a certain type of overstuffed wordplay for me), too many unnecessarily complex minor plot elements, too much backstory dumping. The hero just said "shite" in front of heroine. It's 1866. He's a marquess, she's an earl's daughter. It feels too modern for me. I am having worried, disappointed feelings.