I really love the premise of this series, and the first couple of books were pretty enjoyable. While I still think that the style is pleasant and easy to read, as the series goes on, I find myself rolling my eyes at really strained plots and character behavior.

It's so strange to me that the men in this series act like even the very concept of marriage has never crossed their minds...ever...and so the prospect of courting the leading lady, who is practically perfect in every way, always requires a huge world-shift and lots of panicked gulping and freaking out on the part of these singularly unimaginative gentlemen. Come on. This is the Regency era, and many of them are titled and landed gentlemen. Getting married is literally their main task in life. All this nonessential, and frankly puzzling, angst makes things dull for the reader.

That said, I think that the Spinsters with a capital S are a delightful group, and their custom of publishing a newspaper on all sorts of topics and keeping tabs on the reputations of all single people is pretty fun. I just wish that the men they get involved with were a trifle more believable. ( )