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Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, Rose Lerner
4.0
Picked this up because I love 2/3 of the authors and have been recommended Rose Lerner as a new favorite a dozen times. I was a bit skeptical of the Hamilton angle, but if anyone can pull off smutty historical Broadway fanfic as fully realized stories, these authors can. And they did! There's a lot to love, and to laugh and cry at, in each one.
I love that you can see a little bit of Hamilton - at least, the Hamilton I know from the musical - in all the main characters. One of the heroes in all three stories talks too dang much, which is a delightfully subtle-but-not-THAT-subtle reference. But all of them share some of his ambition, intellect, and complicated patriotism, too.
I think Alyssa Cole's story was my favorite - I'm usually not a huge fan of novellas, and this one was particularly short. But I was blown away by how she packed such deep characterization and historical context into so few pages about such a brief courtship.
I love that you can see a little bit of Hamilton - at least, the Hamilton I know from the musical - in all the main characters. One of the heroes in all three stories talks too dang much, which is a delightfully subtle-but-not-THAT-subtle reference. But all of them share some of his ambition, intellect, and complicated patriotism, too.
I think Alyssa Cole's story was my favorite - I'm usually not a huge fan of novellas, and this one was particularly short. But I was blown away by how she packed such deep characterization and historical context into so few pages about such a brief courtship.