I didn’t reread either The Heir or The Soldier and none of the Lonely Lords series that feature Valentine had been released yet so I remember sympathizing with Valentine in this book, but honestly, you really need to be steeped in this character and have read all the previous times he’s shown up because when I finally got to Valentine in this book, I was so much more invested in him. I read The Virtuoso when it was released, but I wasn’t quite a Grace Burrowes fan yet. When I was reading Jack, a Lady Val showed up at the wedding and I remember thinking - wait, did Val and Ellen already get married? I’m not mad about this - it’s actually kind of fun to read this universe like it’s a puzzle. So I reshuffled the list to be a bit more accurate, and will be going back to read Darius & Nicholas next. I knew that second part, but I had forgotten just how close to the end of Darius this particular book is set. The Virtuoso takes place before Jack in the universe, but it also takes place during Darius and after Nicholas. You know you’ve got an intricately connected universe when even the author doesn’t really know which order things happen in. So I will be talking a lot about other books and the universe as a whole. Note: All of my GB reviews not only talk about the book but the way the book fits into the universe Burrowes built because so many of her characters flit back and forth.
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