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A review by declaired
A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles
4.0
I had perused all the summaries before embarking in on the journey of the Society of Gentlemen series, and about halfway through book #1 I was ready to jump over to this story. Silas and Dominic's love story playing out in the background of "A Fashionable Indulgence" was eyecatching, as they're two men set in direct opposition to each other in their stations in live (Home Office gentleman, man printing seditious literature) and, by law of plot, must clash dramatically.
"A Seditious Affair" starts around the same time that "A Fashionable Indulgence" starts, but moves pretty quickly through the plot we've already covered in favor of emotions & smut, and then picks up the threads for more historically-based drama and political arguments (with, of course, ongoing emotions and smut). This is my favorite of the series, with the most likeable leads.
Things I liked: -the amount of historical research that went into the story -the smut -the "you've been in an emotional affair with your best friend for 15 years and you need to accept that some parts of that are not good" arc
Things I would have liked: -not learning that "apache" used to be a slang word for thief. really feel like i could have gone my whole life not encountering that, unchallenged, in a regency romance
-I still don't know what "mongrel eyes" means
-how much the "exclusive gentleman's club" represented by the Ricardians would have echoed / had roots in real queer history. (which is maybe just a research question I need to look into myself; it's not that it did not feel realistic, because it did, more or less- the fears, the reliance on privilege, the small town "oh no are these the only gays I know because it's getting incestuous" feeling)
"A Seditious Affair" starts around the same time that "A Fashionable Indulgence" starts, but moves pretty quickly through the plot we've already covered in favor of emotions & smut, and then picks up the threads for more historically-based drama and political arguments (with, of course, ongoing emotions and smut). This is my favorite of the series, with the most likeable leads.
Things I liked: -the amount of historical research that went into the story -the smut -the "you've been in an emotional affair with your best friend for 15 years and you need to accept that some parts of that are not good" arc
Things I would have liked: -not learning that "apache" used to be a slang word for thief. really feel like i could have gone my whole life not encountering that, unchallenged, in a regency romance
-I still don't know what "mongrel eyes" means
-how much the "exclusive gentleman's club" represented by the Ricardians would have echoed / had roots in real queer history. (which is maybe just a research question I need to look into myself; it's not that it did not feel realistic, because it did, more or less- the fears, the reliance on privilege, the small town "oh no are these the only gays I know because it's getting incestuous" feeling)