🏴☠️ The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
Rating: 🥃🥃🥃🥃
Heat: 🔥🔥
Let me just say, if you're looking for historically accurate regency romance, bless your heart and move along. But if you’ve ever wanted to read a book where lady pirates live in flying mansions and casually lob grenades between tea services, then congratulations, you’re my kind of unhinged—and The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels is your new favorite fever dream.
Our heroine, Cecilia, is all prim manners and deadly precision—like if Mary Poppins joined a fight club. She’s been raised by a league of proper piratical aunties who judge everything from posture to pistol technique. And she is done with everyone’s nonsense, especially when it interferes with her schedule or threatens her reading time.
Enter Ned Lightbourne, a contract killer with a talent for dramatic entrances, literary name-dropping, and looking suspiciously hot while being morally flexible. He’s supposed to kill Cecilia, but instead he spends most of the book making heart-eyes at her while questioning all his life choices—which, same. The man is basically chaos wrapped in charm, and I was here for it.
The romance is bantery, slow-simmering, and perfectly matched. You don’t always get a couple who can spar with both swords and sarcasm, but Holton delivers that dynamic with flair. It’s the kind of love story where you half expect them to start making out mid-duel.
This book is completely ridiculous, and I mean that as the highest compliment. India Holton writes with the gleeful energy of someone who knows exactly how absurd her world is and leans into it with every flying teacup and misfired cannon. Is it grounded? Absolutely not. Is it fun as hell? You bet your bustle it is.
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