Not bad but not notable, not oh-my-god-I’ll-read-a-grocery-list-if-this-person-wrote-it. That could more or less describe Fellowes’s writing style as well. Weren’t particularly funny or quirky-or memorable. They didn’t pop on page, didn’t have unique characteristics. They were good, admirable, honest people, always trying to do right, but they just. Same for the man who eventually became her husband and foremost secondary, Guy Sullivan. I liked Louisa, but I never quite cared about her or became endeared to her. That leaves the heavy lifting to the actual main character, Louisa Cannon, who worked for the Mitfords for half her life in one capacity or another. They try readers’ patience more than endear them or compel them to know more. Or rather, some of them weren’t good people, and the others weren’t very likeable (at least as depicted by this series). I get why they are-were-media darlings, so eccentric and outspoken and opinionated, but they weren’t good people. I’d never heard of the Mitfords before venturing into this series, and now that I’ve learned about them, I fail to understand why anyone would center a book series on them. Of the five Mitford books, I liked this one most, and it’s probably because it contained the Mitfords the least. I would like to thank Jessica Fellowes, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for allowing me to listen to a free audio ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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