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timeripple's romance recommendation, "Lord of Scoundrels" did not arrive with a horrifyingly gauche cover. I was a bit disappointed. It also was not a large-print edition. There is always a trade-off...
Well, to start with, from the outset this was Not Your Georgette Regency. Though it maintains a certain composed diction that one expects (and can relax into) from this set of historicals, it also established right from the prologue that it was going to be unflinching about the realities usually alluded to more coyly.
( the meat of the matter )
I know that I've talked exclusively about the hero. The heroine was markedly well-adjusted for a romance heroine! In a way, it was a story about the making of the hero, as opposed to the romance making the heroine. Bravo for that: it's one of the stream of choices made to not go the easy route but go the INTERESTING one.
Having a hero get all the complexes? LOVE IIIT.
timeripple's romance recommendation, "Lord of Scoundrels" did not arrive with a horrifyingly gauche cover. I was a bit disappointed. It also was not a large-print edition. There is always a trade-off...Well, to start with, from the outset this was Not Your Georgette Regency. Though it maintains a certain composed diction that one expects (and can relax into) from this set of historicals, it also established right from the prologue that it was going to be unflinching about the realities usually alluded to more coyly.
( the meat of the matter )
I know that I've talked exclusively about the hero. The heroine was markedly well-adjusted for a romance heroine! In a way, it was a story about the making of the hero, as opposed to the romance making the heroine. Bravo for that: it's one of the stream of choices made to not go the easy route but go the INTERESTING one.
Having a hero get all the complexes? LOVE IIIT.
