What we actually get: a TSTL heroine who loses all sense the second an attractive male puts a finger on her. So this should be her when confronted with bullshit, right? She's practical, puts the shop first, will let nothing stand in the way of her success and blah, blah blah. What we're told: she's the businesswoman of the trio of sisters. I knew going in that the historical bits were going to be some of the thinnest wallpaper ever seen in Romancelandia.
1 duke, 1 marquess and 1 count marrying 3 French milliners? It's so blatantly implausible that I can't even hold that against Vixen in Velvet and its predecessors. Let's get one thing out of the way first: the ridiculous premise of this series. There's no emotional pay-off for the reader and the stories and characters aren't interesting enough to carry the books. Her recent books (and this one in particular) have been 100% levity with 0 stakes. Her older books used to have some seriousness mixed with the humor and it gave them depth. She's always striven to write in what I call a "Heyer style" and that doesn't pay off anymore.
I have several Loretta Chase books on my "Favorites" bookshelf but I haven't been too happy with her recent work.
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