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A review by lizshayne
Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
I appreciate a book that delivers exactly what the title promised.
Did I laugh? Obviously.
Am I convinced that these people should be running a kingdom? Ehh, not the point.
There's an interesting genre thing where it's not a romance in the sense that the endgame of the plot is not marriage/life together and if the fantasy plot resolved without them falling in love, it would still work...although be a very serious betrayal of the promise of the author to the reader. But the space that the story gives to the process of falling for another person is out of proportion to someone not writing a story about falling in love.
It definitely makes for better, or at least more expansive, possibilities of what constitutes a romance.It also strikes me as interesting that this one is also concerned with morality (in this case within the conversation about the right to rule and to dispose of others as you see fit) but not from an exploration perspective, but from a "you are meant to understand that these ideas are bad because they are held by bad people" and, like, it's not that that's not an interesting conversation, but that the book is not interested in it as a conversation. Which, again, often a limit of the romance genre and also super fascinating to me to look at romance novelswith sex that is both gay and kinky as prescriptive morality texts.
Did I laugh? Obviously.
Am I convinced that these people should be running a kingdom? Ehh, not the point.
There's an interesting genre thing where it's not a romance in the sense that the endgame of the plot is not marriage/life together and if the fantasy plot resolved without them falling in love, it would still work...although be a very serious betrayal of the promise of the author to the reader. But the space that the story gives to the process of falling for another person is out of proportion to someone not writing a story about falling in love.
It definitely makes for better, or at least more expansive, possibilities of what constitutes a romance.It also strikes me as interesting that this one is also concerned with morality (in this case within the conversation about the right to rule and to dispose of others as you see fit) but not from an exploration perspective, but from a "you are meant to understand that these ideas are bad because they are held by bad people" and, like, it's not that that's not an interesting conversation, but that the book is not interested in it as a conversation. Which, again, often a limit of the romance genre and also super fascinating to me to look at romance novels