I enjoyed this book, it had parties and great dresses and everything a reader wants when reading this type of historical romance. It has enough history to make the reader want to do a little research but not so much that the reader feels like they're in history class. The three girls were great friends and each had their own issue to overcome which showed a different part of their society. The story however was slow at times. I felt like I was reading a 550 page book when in fact the book was under 400 pages.
Appropriateness: This book didn't feel like a young adult book however, it did feel like the historical romance novels that I read when I was a teen (except without the sex). It was not a fast read and there was some MASSIVE vocabulary (words that can be figured out in context but many that I was not familiar with). There wasn't any sex however, there was an obsessive amount of talk of virginity and sex as it related to the girls in their time period. I would recommend this book to readers 14+
