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msklm 's review for:
Wilde in Love
by Eloisa James
This is only my second Eloisa James read and I can already establish one of my favorite things about her writing: the way she twists what we know into a new form readers know could have been true but that we've never seen in the genre before.
Celebrity was not new in the late 18th century, but she's showing it in a form we're all wildly familiar with: trash magazine frenzy. Keeping everything historically accurate while also presenting the modern mania AND driving her story forward naturally is a feat to be admired.
I was disappointed in two things, however:
1. I really had a hard time understanding what was driving the main characters (Alaric and Willa/Evie) apart in the beginning. I KNEW what it was (we were told), but watching it happen on the page didn't quite match what was being said.
2. I never got to see what any of the famed "Wilde" novels were about. After all the hype about them, I wanted to see at least ONE page. But no, I got nothing. Now I'm not sure I believe they weren't made up, like Willa does at the beginning.
Still, decently entertaining and kept me reading.
Celebrity was not new in the late 18th century, but she's showing it in a form we're all wildly familiar with: trash magazine frenzy. Keeping everything historically accurate while also presenting the modern mania AND driving her story forward naturally is a feat to be admired.
I was disappointed in two things, however:
1. I really had a hard time understanding what was driving the main characters (Alaric and Willa/Evie) apart in the beginning. I KNEW what it was (we were told), but watching it happen on the page didn't quite match what was being said.
2. I never got to see what any of the famed "Wilde" novels were about. After all the hype about them, I wanted to see at least ONE page. But no, I got nothing. Now I'm not sure I believe they weren't made up, like Willa does at the beginning.
Still, decently entertaining and kept me reading.