I really enjoyed reading a romance where the characters were fairly level-headed, decent people. There was none of that "instant attraction where the FL meets the ML and his studliness is so overwhelming that she almost gets pregnant from breathing the air around him." That was a lousy trope to start with, and it's been done to death (and getting worse each time, seemingly). This had two estranged brothers interested in the same girl, but neither was consumed by hatred and vengeance. The only character that kind of annoyed me was the cousin. She definitely took sides, and came across as something like a commode spy or the old Captain's Narker of the Royal Navy.
I really enjoyed reading a romance where the characters were fairly level-headed, decent people. There was none of that "instant attraction where the FL meets the ML and his studliness is so overwhelming that she almost gets pregnant from breathing the air around him." That was a lousy trope to start with, and it's been done to death (and getting worse each time, seemingly). This had two estranged brothers interested in the same girl, but neither was consumed by hatred and vengeance. The only character that kind of annoyed me was the cousin. She definitely took sides, and came across as something like a commode spy or the old Captain's Narker of the Royal Navy.