This is a re-read. I originally read this in Feb 2015, on audiobook, and loved it. Given that I’ve been playing Yours, Etcetera, a play-by-mail alt-Regency LARP set in 1812, and this story is set in 1819, I decided a re-read was warranted. Also, my character (Sophrona Ramsbury) is courting Charlotte Merriweather, and their ‘couple name’ was decided by others to be Cinnamon and Gunpowder, so it felt mandated by fate to re-read this book. And wow, does it still move me. Even reading the hardcover this time around, and being in a totally different place in my life, I […]