Review: Reputation by Lex Croucher

Reputation by Lex Croucher

Blurb from Goodreads:

The hilarious debut novel from Lex Croucher. A classic romcom with a Regency-era twist, for fans of Mean Girls and/or Jane Austen.

Abandoned by her parents, middle-class Georgiana Ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who lives a life Georgiana couldn't have imagined in her wildest dreams.

Lonely and vulnerable, Georgiana falls in with Frances and her unfathomably rich, deeply improper friends. Georgiana is introduced to a new world: drunken debauchery, mysterious young men with strangely arresting hands, and the upper echelons of Regency society.

But the price of entry to high society might just be higher than Georgiana is willing to pay ...

 I hesitate to call this a romance novel -- it felt more like Cruel Intensions meets Euphoria meets the Regency Period.... although I didn't love it. I also didn't find it funny, at all.  It was a bit crude bordering on grotesque for me.... and I'm not entirely sure why it didn't work.  Regardless, hope you have better luck!

Reputation comes out next week on April 5, 2022 and you can purchase HERE.

She was surprised at the intensity of her feelings--surprised to find that this sudden moment of vulnerability did not alarm her one bit. No hero in any romance she'd read before had been allowed to feel anything other than righteous anger, any sorrow turning immediately to swift and red-blooded retribution. She was glad that he was going off book; she could tell that anything less would have been a lie.