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sophia_sol) wrote2015-09-07 09:22 am
sophia_sol) wrote2015-09-07 09:22 am
Lady Fortescue Steps Out, by Marion Chesney
I've moved, I'm more or less settled in my new home, and I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN. Which means you know what time it is, BOOK THOUGHTS TIME. I have a backlog of eight posts to make!
Let's start with Lady Fortescue Steps Out, by Marion Chesney
I did like the premise of this book? But that's the only thing I like about it. The premise: a collection of "poor relations" - members of a respectable class who nonetheless do not have enough money to subsist on - band together and start a hotel.
Sighhhhh I think my problem here is that what I want out of regency romance novels is Georgette Heyer minus the classism/racism/ableism/sexism/etc. And what makes Georgette Heyer fun is that the books are full of charming characters and amazing hijinks, and also have very little focus on how the romantic leads are deeply sexually attracted to each other.
This book had a collection of totally one-note characters, I deeply disbelieved in everything about the romance except their sexual attraction (and their sexual attraction was not well handled by the author), I disliked the extremely blase attitude of the narrative towards thievery, etc. And the book was clearly trying to do a found-family thing with the group of poor relations except that it completely failed to include any emotional notes to support that theme.
All in all I was very unimpressed.
Let's start with Lady Fortescue Steps Out, by Marion Chesney
I did like the premise of this book? But that's the only thing I like about it. The premise: a collection of "poor relations" - members of a respectable class who nonetheless do not have enough money to subsist on - band together and start a hotel.
Sighhhhh I think my problem here is that what I want out of regency romance novels is Georgette Heyer minus the classism/racism/ableism/sexism/etc. And what makes Georgette Heyer fun is that the books are full of charming characters and amazing hijinks, and also have very little focus on how the romantic leads are deeply sexually attracted to each other.
This book had a collection of totally one-note characters, I deeply disbelieved in everything about the romance except their sexual attraction (and their sexual attraction was not well handled by the author), I disliked the extremely blase attitude of the narrative towards thievery, etc. And the book was clearly trying to do a found-family thing with the group of poor relations except that it completely failed to include any emotional notes to support that theme.
All in all I was very unimpressed.