I was amazed at how much I enjoyed this book. It turns out, their oddities match up very well. Smite Turner is the cold and precise magistrate who notices she's lying during a court case. Miranda Darling is a quick witted wig-maker with a talent for accents. I'm sorry the series ended, but it has been a great read. Smite is so stoic and Miranda is a joyful person despite her living conditions they make a perfect pair. I never guess her endings (not the HEA, that's a given) but they're always believable and make perfect sense. Milan always gives her plot an extra twist, varying from the usual historical formulas. The Turner brothers are interesting and the women they picked, while not always suitable to society, are perfect for each of them. The writing and the characters drew me in and I've quickly gone through the next two books. I had the first book on my reader for a while and finally got around to reading it. It doesn't take long before he and Miranda are involved. When Miranda Darling appears before him as a witness, his interest is caught. Due to his upbringing, he is one of the few judges who deal fairly with the poorer citizens. That’s a whole lot of nothing, honestly, but I guess it’s more words than my initial: Their love and appreciation for each other along with their growth is the best thing about these. What else it had was communication between the Turner brothers, making me wish I had more to read about. It had tension, and heart squeezing moments and everything I want in a romance. This book could’ve easily tipped into angst-making drahhhma. Smite is absolutely starved for companionship but remains isolated as a reminder of what he has to do to give back. There are many moments in this book where one or the other could’ve sacrificed who or what they were, but it didn’t really happen. She does what she feels she has to, but she’s so aware of what people are saying and adept at reading them, it makes her, not surprisingly, a perfect match for him. Miranda, on the other hand, is scrappy and sunny-having lived her life raised by many loving adults but with no real stability. He’s an exceptional compartmentalizer, but he’s also self-torturing, which is probably the most difficult thing about him.
He’s uncompromising and has a very dark back story. He listens as a magistrate to all the accused that others don’t or won’t. He’s also intense, straightforward, and loves animals. Exacting, unforgiving, cold.Īnd we know Mark knew he needed, and gave him, a dog. At least we have an idea of how tortured he is. I didn’t like Ash & Margaret’s story as much as I loved these last two, but to be fair, by the point we’re reading about Smite, we already know a great deal about him. It’s hard to complain when Courtney Milan builds a series around a group of men.
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