Akiva Reads

by Courtney Milan

I was really into this up to the point (right after the e-book preview ended, lol) where a (chaperoned, from out of hearing range) man of the late-1800s English landowning class tells a woman of the English landowning class that she has "great tits." I don't know if it's historically accurate, but it's definitely ridiculous. It set an accurate tone for how the rest of the book went, anyway.

There were points thereafter where it started to get back up into the 3 or 4-star range (the obligatory wedding night sex scene was actually pretty good), but in the end it's forgettable, despite "disguised as a boy" being one of my near-bulletproof favorite tropes. Too bad!