Jewish lesbians! Sinister country houses! Shell art! These are but a few of the wondrous things you will find in Rose Lerner’s latest book, The Wife in the Attic, an f/f retelling of Jane Eyre that’s out now as an Audible Original. I got to talk to Rose about this book, her research for it, why Mr. Rochester did nothing wrong if he’s telling the truth, and her favorite Holmes/Watson AU, the Bunny and Raffles stories. “Whatever, I don’t need to justify Raffles’s behavior,” said Rose at one point, whereupon she immediately justified Raffles’s behavior. (I was convinced, for what…
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Review: Hamilton’s Battalion
Published 24 Oct 2017
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Gin Jenny
If you follow me on Twitter, you may already have seen me shrieking about Hamilton’s Battalion, a collection of novellas by three of my favorite romance authors. But I’d like now to review it in a more measured fashion, after some days with the text and a mature1 consideration of its merits. Ha! You thought I was going to put an all-capsy shrieky paragraph down here after the cover, didn’t you? You thought all that maTOOR business was setting up a joke, but it wasn’t. That’s just how I say mature, which shows that I am a sophisticate. The first…
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Published 12 Sep 2017
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Gin Jenny
Note: I received a review copy of A Taste of Honey from the author. This did not influence the contents of my review. If you’ve ever asked me for feminist romance novel recommendations, I’ve probably enthusiastically pushed Rose Lerner on you. Consider this me doing so again. A Taste of Honey is the latest installment in her Lively St. Lemeston series, which focuses on middle and lower-class folks in a small British town in Regency England. As with most romance series, you don’t need to have read the others to enjoy this one. Be prepared now for me to overuse…
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Published 18 Mar 2016
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Gin Jenny
Welp, here it is somehow Friday already, and I do not feel that I have accomplished anything this week. Anyone have good weekend plans? Mine focus heavily on hibernation. In the meantime, here are some romance novels I’ve been reading lately. Rag and Bone, KJ Charles (I received a copy of this book from the publisher for review consideration.) KJ Charles writes about half-and-half straight historical romance novels and creepy magic creepiness romance novels, and I would be hard-pressed to say which genre I prefer. Rag and Bone is in the latter category, a companion novel to her “Charm of…
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