I felt like Elizabeth should have had a bigger part, but I cannot see how that would have working in the overall plot. I loved the ladies' relationship, as well as August and Elizabeth's characters. The diversity and acceptance of all people in the world was awesome, as well as the social structure. I loved the mixture of victorian and asian fashions. This is for the best, to much detail and the plot can often get left behind. All good books/authors! The beginning is mostly world building, yet it left a lot unsaid, leaving a lot of the particulars for the audience to fill in for themselves. The best way to describe it is that it has an Anne of Green Gables charm, with an almost Gail Carriger type of silly victorian fantasy world, with some Lunar Chronicles technology. Set in a near-future world where the British Empire never fell and the United States never rose, That Inevitable Victorian Thing is a surprising, romantic, and thought-provoking story of love, duty, and the small moments that can change people and the world.Ĥ.5 This book had so many elements that I adore. In a summer of high-society debutante balls, politically charged tea parties, and romantic country dances, Margaret, Helena, and August discover they share an extraordinary bond and maybe a one-in-a-million chance to have what they want and to change the world in the process. Posing as a commoner in Toronto, she meets Helena Marcus, daughter of one of the empire's greatest placement geneticists, and August Callaghan, the heir to a powerful shipping firm currently besieged by American pirates. But before she does her duty, she'll have one summer of freedom and privacy in a far corner of empire. The imperial tradition of genetically arranged matchmaking will soon guide Margaret into a politically advantageous marriage. Victoria-Margaret is the crown princess of the empire, a direct descendent of Victoria I, the queen who changed the course of history. Speculative fiction from the acclaimed best-selling author of Exit, Pursued by a Bear and Star Wars: Ahsoka.

That inevitable victorian thing