Here for a good time, not for a long time. ( Titles, titles, titles, announced in my best Robert Baratheon voice.) Lady Mulgrave, whose preferred name is Pip, or also literally any name that isn’t “Lady” Mulgrave, is a bit of a playboy with a Peter Pan complex. We’re introduced to a very flawed, sometimes infuriating protagonist Lady Phillipa Anne Marion Farne-Sacksley of Mulgrave. That said, from the synopsis I was generally expecting a pretty straightforward continuation but with more royalty, angst and motorcycles. (I somehow missed the release of Modern English, the second book – more on that later.) It doesn’t matter much if you read the three English books out of order, but it’s always fun to have that experience of already knowing some of the established cast. Plain English, the third book, features many of the same characters. I’d already read Full English last year, the first book in the English series, which is set in the small English town of Amberwick. But Spangler’s writing is much more diverse than that label gives them credit for, and their newest book Plain English showcases that range. In my mind, I often refer to Spangler as “the author who writes sports romance,” and yeah, I’m a big sucker for a feel-good sports story. Rachel Spangler is probably one of my most read authors of sapphic romance because they are so darn reliable.
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