The premise was refreshing and this book had the potential to be good, unfortunately the writing was weak. I never connected to the characters and something has seriously gone wrong when you start rooting for the H and h not to get together (I didn't think Louise should have forgiven Charles for his misaken judgement about her, which felt like a plot development pulled right out of Pride and Prejudice). I ended up skimming a fair amount. I was surprised to learn at the end that Louise and Charles were both real engineers of the period and this was apparently a fictionalized account of their "courtship." That made it a little more interesting for me.
