Member Review

Reputation by Lex Croucher is everything you want in a Regency era high society tale that would make Jane Austen proud! The tagline for this book was Mean Girls meets Jane Austin with a twist, it so lived up to the hype and then some.
Observing Georgiana splendid ascent on the social ladder, which regrettably had a few casualties along the way, was both glorious and sad. She was able to enter a world well beyond her appropriate standing to view what the higher society lives like. And I found that I saw the ending coming but was hoping in a perfect world where tragic events do not occur to good people. That she would realize just because you have loads of wealth doesn’t make you a respectable or decent human being. Poor George needs to lay off the spirits and open her pretty eyes to the world she has entered before its too late. But alas when the veil was lifted, sobering as it may be, it exposed her new world, making her realize that maybe Not All That Glitters is in Fact Gold…. William Shakespeare must not have been one of the books in her vast library she was reading. Sorry just had to poke some fun at poor George because at more times than I care to admit my heart ached for her. I found that when this story ended, I was a little melancholy, because I so loved being enveloped in this world sodden with Regency allure and elegance with just a hint of arrogance that makes it fun to observe. I truly adored the Edwardian flair with the hint of debauchery and angst, while still navigating a coming-of-age love story that proves no matter what era you grow up in we all experience struggles we must endure and overcome.

I want to thank St. Martin’s Press and Lex Croucher for sending me this Advance Readers’ Edition in exchange for my honest review, it was a pleasure to spend all my nights enveloped in your world.