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A review by snazel
Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, Rose Lerner
Promised Land, by Rose Lerner
Delightful. Offering someone a certificate of divorce was never so romantic. (Sincerely, it's great.)
Rose Lerner has a fantastic way of taking me back to historical periods I thought I knew and showing me it from another angle. I've read about the American Revolution, for example here. But I hadn't realized how often I'd read from the POV of people who were talking from a period of pretty huge social and economic privilege. And how I'd never read a story about someone who wasn't Christian. I even think everyone was Protestant? Like, yikes. And I knew I'd only heard from people who were white, but I didn't think that would matter (hahah, it always matters, you don't get to hear only the slaveowners and their friends talk and not come up with a skewed view of who lives and who dies).
So. I ship the romance, it's wonderfully, unabashedly Jewish, and it made me think, to boot. Rose Lerner for all the historical books.
The Pursuit Of... by Courtney Milan
That Could Be Enough By Alyssa Cole
Delightful. Offering someone a certificate of divorce was never so romantic. (Sincerely, it's great.)
Rose Lerner has a fantastic way of taking me back to historical periods I thought I knew and showing me it from another angle. I've read about the American Revolution, for example here. But I hadn't realized how often I'd read from the POV of people who were talking from a period of pretty huge social and economic privilege. And how I'd never read a story about someone who wasn't Christian. I even think everyone was Protestant? Like, yikes. And I knew I'd only heard from people who were white, but I didn't think that would matter (hahah, it always matters, you don't get to hear only the slaveowners and their friends talk and not come up with a skewed view of who lives and who dies).
So. I ship the romance, it's wonderfully, unabashedly Jewish, and it made me think, to boot. Rose Lerner for all the historical books.
The Pursuit Of... by Courtney Milan
That Could Be Enough By Alyssa Cole