3.5

I'm definitely not mad at this book and had way more fun than I expected. As someone who never ever reads these books and picked this one out from the library on a whim knowing nothing about it, I was pleasantly surprised. Am I going to recommend it? No, but mostly because I have no clue if there's better Regency romance out there or not.

A brief overview of the things that worked for me:
- it's generally humorous and never takes itself overly seriously
- the female main character is sensible and has ambitions and speaks her mind, but is rarely over the top or unbelievable for the time period
- it's dual perspective and very fluid with it. It'll even switch in the middle of a scene if it makes sense to and was never jarring
- The shapeshifter part was really fun and the author put a decent amount of effort into worldbuilding considering I wasn't expecting much from a regency romance

My biggest problem with the book was how slow it moved at times. Sometimes it worked, such as building tension up until he finally reveals his true nature, but other times such as the drama with her inheritance it felt a bit dragged out. Also the author is trying to show of her thesaurus/dictionary skills or she was straight up inventing words, but it didn't really bother me all that much just a heads up.

I don't think I'll read any more books in this series when they come out tbh, it's just a little predictable at times and the writing style and my brain don't mesh very well.