I have talked to several people (myself included) who expected to love The Countess Conspiracy very much from setup/prior introduction to characters in previous books, and found themselves oddly unmoved by the romance in it.
Interesting! I really assumed it was just me. I appreciate the data.
It was composed of so many elements that should have worked for me! And yet it is probably my least favorite of that particular series, a fact which I rather regret.
It's very regrettable! "Social butterfly impersonates brilliant scientist while they have complicated feelings about themselves and one another" should have been unbreakable. I even like a lot of the details of the play-out: Sebastian finally realizing that he's actually intelligent, not just pretty and clever; everything about Violet's backstory suggesting that if Milan really is writing an alternate history, someone had better hurry up and invent the pill; Violet's mother turning out to be just as terrifying as her daughter always thought, but also awesome. I just really think it would have worked better as not a romance. I feel this way about a lot of romances, but that doesn't necessarly mean I'm wrong.
Unveiled is also my least favorite of its particular series, so far as I'm concerned you can pretty much only go up with Milan from here. (Though Unraveled and Countess Conspiracy are both top-tier for me.)
I am going to read Unclaimed, even if I don't expect to like it anywhere near as much as Unraveled, see previous post. That one is holding strongly at the top of my admittedly minimal list, even counting The Heiress Effect.
(Did you mean something other than Countess Conspiracy?)
Have you read any of her traditionally published, pre-Turner novels? If so, what are they even like?
(Though I would also very much recommend, if you're Exploring Romance Fiction, that you also give Rose Lerner's works a try.)
If Rose Lerner authored the Jewish con artist marriage of convenience romance novel that you reviewed a number of years ago, and I can get it in print because I really do hate reading off screens, I shall definitely do so.
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Interesting! I really assumed it was just me. I appreciate the data.
It was composed of so many elements that should have worked for me! And yet it is probably my least favorite of that particular series, a fact which I rather regret.
It's very regrettable! "Social butterfly impersonates brilliant scientist while they have complicated feelings about themselves and one another" should have been unbreakable. I even like a lot of the details of the play-out: Sebastian finally realizing that he's actually intelligent, not just pretty and clever; everything about Violet's backstory suggesting that if Milan really is writing an alternate history, someone had better hurry up and invent the pill; Violet's mother turning out to be just as terrifying as her daughter always thought, but also awesome. I just really think it would have worked better as not a romance. I feel this way about a lot of romances, but that doesn't necessarly mean I'm wrong.
Unveiled is also my least favorite of its particular series, so far as I'm concerned you can pretty much only go up with Milan from here. (Though Unraveled and Countess Conspiracy are both top-tier for me.)
I am going to read Unclaimed, even if I don't expect to like it anywhere near as much as Unraveled, see previous post. That one is holding strongly at the top of my admittedly minimal list, even counting The Heiress Effect.
(Did you mean something other than Countess Conspiracy?)
Have you read any of her traditionally published, pre-Turner novels? If so, what are they even like?
(Though I would also very much recommend, if you're Exploring Romance Fiction, that you also give Rose Lerner's works a try.)
If Rose Lerner authored the Jewish con artist marriage of convenience romance novel that you reviewed a number of years ago, and I can get it in print because I really do hate reading off screens, I shall definitely do so.