Dear Fellow Reader,

Are you on Instagram? I know I am late to the party but I have been using my Instagram account more lately, I have not been using it the way one probably should use it, I rarely post photos there. I use it to post quotes that I think are funny or poignant, Partially to put out positive messages but also to practice using design ideas, I am certainly not an artist – I cannot draw at all but I like to fiddle around with a graphic design program to see what I can come up with,

Do you have an outlet like that? Somewhere that you can practice something that you like but may not be particularly good at? I hope you do, It is just fun and we can all use that!

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord is this week’s book. I was given a copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased review.

This book is billed as “Bridgerton  meets Agatha Christie … a dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin”  Wow, that is a lot to live up to, Although I am not totally sure what that means,

Lady Petra Forsyth is the daughter of the Earl of Holbrook and is her own person, She was in love and going to be married but her love died, She has since announced that she has no interest in marrying. This has taken her social set by storm and is definitely not what a lady of that era should do, But she was left funds by her mother so she can survive without a man,

When Lady Petra is told that a friend of hers has died, she is upset, She then sees some evidence that the friend is not dead but is barely alive and hidden somewhere. She becomes interested because she hears whispers about a doctor. The whispers are coming from the married men in her social circle who seem to want to see their wives disappear, She decides that she must follow up on the mystery. At the same time, the man she grew up with and felt was her close friend until they had a terrible fight, is back and she isn’t sure about their relationship. Is he there to help her?

Despite the description above, it is a pretty good story, It has lots of twists and turns and if you like the Regency era, you might like this, I know nothing much about the Regency era, so I don’t know if it is true to form but I liked it. (My understanding is that the Regency era had very strict behavioral codes and people love that era. I don’t know enough to judge whether this book follows the rules.)

I liked it and I suggest that you try it,

Thanks for reading.