Ugh, I stayed up too late last night reading A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare, which is a terribly generic title for a pretty good (if completely unrealistic) Regency romance. It takes place in this village where misfit ladies go to spend the summer, and involves a lot of ridiculous hijinks and some overly flowery but still pretty hot sex for our
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On the other hand, the author published a related novella--Once Upon a Winter's Eve--that's totally skippable. (As is her Stud Club trilogy--formulaic regency TO THE MAX.)
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I don't believe I've read anything else by her, but A Week to Be Wicked was recced by someone on my flist and I figured I should read the first one first, just in case.
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So true! I loved the episode lots and lots but the plot...yeah.
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i actually had a moment during the episode, i think when neal was putting on his new hat, when i thought "he has to be wearing contacts, there's no way his eyes are really that color". to quote crazy, stupid love, it's like he's photoshopped. yowza.
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Yes. Which. I dunno. I think people would be less inclined to help? Because then it looks like Peter is chasing his ex who went through a lot of trouble to get away from him. At least, that is how I would read that.
it's like he's photoshopped.
Photoshopped by GOD, according to .
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But this person today was not only wrong in her opinions, but ACTUALLY FACTUALLY WRONG. Like, by the numbers and stuff. But I still walked away. Some things you can't argue with.
I occasionally start to post and then I stop, because I feel like sometimes, I don't care if I burn whatever social capital I've accumulated in fandom, but what I really want to say is probably going to hurt my friends as well as the people I think are wrong.
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