Finally I didn’t bounce off a Courtney Milan! Granted, the Norfolk Southern disaster had me in the mood to read about labor organizing, and that part worked for me better than the romance.
(In theory, I liked Minnie and Robert together, but they didn’t make me feel it, you know. Also, it left a lot on the table re: Minnie being raised for twelve years as a boy.)
But the radical fantasy of a duke working from within to abolish the peerage—too many duke-centric romances haven’t dared to go that far. If you’re writing a fantasy, go all the way.