Lorelai has never known if she’s seeing what was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their destiny. I adored With This Kiss, I did find it to be a reasonably simple read and devoured it in two sittings.

Well written as all of Eloisa James's books are, the reader is most inconveniently yet intriguingly left hanging .Their relationship is very real, but I don't want to ruin too much, it's a definite read if you like historical romances. Rowena: Yes, you could tell that Lily held great affection for Grace and wouldn’t have wanted to hurt her. I know there are many trans fans of Carrie, whether it be from her youtube or musical theatre work, and for this to be seen in the book so early on is shocking. The writing wasn’t bad or anything - there were some nice quotes but my main issue was with the execution of the story.

I felt there need to be more growth and depth and the romance was a bit “convenient” - there was a lot of miscommunication and unfortunately I won’t be picking up any more of Carrie’s novels.

The book club scenes made me quite excited and I could instantly feel the geekiness from Grayson, that I adored! Colin's character has so much room to grow and I am eager to see how and when he will finally open up his eyes and see the gift in front of him.

Once, when she was a little girl and skinned her knee, he had wrapped it up in his own handkerchief, and had told her how brave she was.This series of novellas is a riff off Eloisa's THE UGLY DUCHESS which was part of her fairy tale inspired series. I appreciated the lore in play, the lore governing Lorelai's curse/power/gift, it is effective and easy enough to remember but hard for the characters to articulate, and difficult to accept in a real-world context (ie the characters push back against it). Grace is admirable and deserves so much more than Colin can give her at this point, but she is so blindingly in love that she does not care. It has been written about since the dawn of books - two people meet, sparks fly, problems arise and they live happily ever after (or do they? This scene is more putting attention on Joy and apologising just because she is trans instead of apologising to the whole room and correcting herself without needing to explain and talk about Joy.