This also applied to things like the beekeeping.Ī large portion of who Penelope is involves her expertise on beekeeping and realistically, it’s what introduced her to Agatha. The issues going on with the King and Queen had little to do with the actual plot other than to show her son being outspoken about it. So much so that I felt this was added simply to pad out the story and make the book longer. There were large chunks of the story that dove deep the politics and controversy that was going on in the country around them. The actual content relevant to the growing attraction made up so little of the plot. I would loosely call this book a slow burn romance simply because Agatha and Penelope don’t act on their feelings until the last fourth or so of the story. The pacing of this book was so off and I was bored through more than half of the book. That’s pretty much the only thing I really liked. The premise sounded really interesting and I really like that both of the protagonists where older women.
When things finally progressed between the two the explicit nature of the relationship between them felt so sudden and out of place that it felt the author changed her mind about how she wanted to write it in the last fourth of the book. I felt like the actual romance part took up way less of the book than it should have. There was so much involving the politics and royalty of the country and beekeeping that I got bored very often.
I liked the general idea and adored that the two protagonists were older women, but the story was bogged down with so much other content that it felt padded out to make it longer. I had high hopes for this book but honestly, it was a letdown.
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