yay, you loved duchess war! it's the least flashy book in the whole series, but robert and minnie are the pair closest to my heart; they're so wonderfully kind to each other, and the whole big thing in the end, where robert agonizes and castigates himself and does what he perceives to be right anyway, and then fully expects to be kicked out forever, and minnie just, like, let's talk about it and move on - ah, that was the balm to my id.

this, and when she listens to him tell this horrifying story about his mother's visits and just rolls with it for his sake, ah.

robert's mother is also one of my favorites. in the end, she tries so, so hard, and they go with it. damn yes.