skygiants: the aunts from Pushing Daisies reading and sipping wine on a couch (wine and books)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2017-12-24 02:44 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I agree; Violet is a good character and her own arc is a delight, but The Countess Conspiracy is a book that seems sort of shoved into the romance format against its will.

...and whoops, yes, good catch, I meant Heiress Effect! Heiress Effect, Suffragette Scandal, and Governess Affair are I think the best books in that series overall; Duchess War, on the other hand, is my favorite of all of them for 3/4 of its length but has (imo) one or two fatal flaws.

I have not read any pre-Turner novels yet, but traditionally I read Milans when I'm stressed-out and traveling, and currently I am all out of Milans, so eventually I may be driven to it.

Rose Lerner did indeed author the Jewish con artist marriage of convenience romance novel! It is called True Pretenses and I believe it is physically book-able from the Minuteman library system. She also wrote the Jewish cross-dressing revolutionary war hero novella in the Hamilton anthology, and a historical novella I have never yet gotten around to reviewing titled All or Nothing in which a bisexual Jewish architect invites a woman to be his fake fiancee at his ex's house party in the mistaken belief that he is rescuing her from what in fact is a totally consensual open relationship.

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