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This is the first ever time I've read a historical "crossdressing" book wherein the AFAB person who dresses in read-as-male clothing turns out to actually explicitly have gender feelings and I for one was PUMPED to finally find one! I didn't have to read against the text at all to see the main character as genderqueer!!!!
Honestly this is the biggest selling point of the book imo so if that sounds appealing to you, go for it. Everything else about the novel was...perfectly fine. Nothing spectacular, imo, but solidly enjoyable.
Okay so this is a Regency romance novel in which a foundling, upon whom has been bestowed the unfortunate name Charity Church, pretends to be a man named Robert Selby in order to help the dead Robert's sister find an advantageous match. Charity-as-Robert ends up spending a bunch of time with an overly-duty-focused Marquess, Alistair, who at first wants nothing to do with the Selbys or with anyone or anything else that might be seen as anything other than perfectly respectable.
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Honestly this is the biggest selling point of the book imo so if that sounds appealing to you, go for it. Everything else about the novel was...perfectly fine. Nothing spectacular, imo, but solidly enjoyable.
Okay so this is a Regency romance novel in which a foundling, upon whom has been bestowed the unfortunate name Charity Church, pretends to be a man named Robert Selby in order to help the dead Robert's sister find an advantageous match. Charity-as-Robert ends up spending a bunch of time with an overly-duty-focused Marquess, Alistair, who at first wants nothing to do with the Selbys or with anyone or anything else that might be seen as anything other than perfectly respectable.
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