The Romance List
I've been reading off this list from The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List--specifically the Fantasy List and the Literary Fiction List. I was finding I enjoyed the recommended books so much, I decided to tackle the Romance List, since I've never had much success with that genre.
My impression honestly is almost all much of the ( Read more... )
My impression honestly is almost all much of the ( Read more... )
The wealth of historical detail impressed me and seemed plausible--it seems I was lucky not to know enough to find it inaccurate :-)
It is often squicky btw--which is why I find myself a bit amused and bemused by her HORROR and SHOCK that anyone could "rape" her characters by writing fanfic about them. What could anyone possibly do to her characters she hasn't done already?
Mary Stewart is very talented. And heyer.
Agreed.
Though she's not to be blamed for chit so much as the third and fourthhand copyists who think that using that word is all that's required to establish setting.
Regency setting at that. I've seen it all over SSHG fic which of course is in the 20th--but I seem to recall native Brits mentioning "chit" isn't something a Brit would use today.
She also wrote a civil contract about a marriage of convenience that's deeply unromantic but emotionally real
I might try that next then--she does have an evident gift for humor and wit. And in some ways is more modern and original than many a romance writer today despite supposedly being much copied--believe me, reading some of the idiot romantic heroes in these books many a time I'd wished the heroine had shot him... Heyer got a fan forever in that scene...
Jr ward is pish but crack. I keepreading to see if it gets better knowing it doesn't but somehow powerless to stop.
Hee. I know what you mean. For a long time I was like that with LK Hamilton. Fortunately I'm recently reformed--I wasn't tempted to get her latest novel. THANK GOD
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