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Dearest Rogue
by Elizabeth Hoyt
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
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Resident Evil 4 Remake came out and I suddenly found myself curious about the bodyguard trope in romance so that's why I'm here. (Not to imply that I ship Leon and Ashley because I don't, more than I was interested in the concept of a bodyguard falling for the person he's hired to protect.)
What's cool about this particular romance is that it features two disabled protagonists. Phoebe is our blind lead and James has a limp and uses a cane. I would say that, while I don't have either one of those disabilities, I didn't feel like the author was disrespectful necessarily in the depiction of them. There's ableism in the book from other characters naturally because in real life people are ableist to disabled folk.
I didn't really care for the constant mention of the age gap between them (Phoebe's 21, James is 33) and how much James would bring up her innocence but that's more a feature of historical fiction rather than a bug I suppose, in this particular time period between these particular kinds of people - a sister to a duke and a retired military captain in polite society.
What's cool about this particular romance is that it features two disabled protagonists. Phoebe is our blind lead and James has a limp and uses a cane. I would say that, while I don't have either one of those disabilities, I didn't feel like the author was disrespectful necessarily in the depiction of them. There's ableism in the book from other characters naturally because in real life people are ableist to disabled folk.
I didn't really care for the constant mention of the age gap between them (Phoebe's 21, James is 33) and how much James would bring up her innocence but that's more a feature of historical fiction rather than a bug I suppose, in this particular time period between these particular kinds of people - a sister to a duke and a retired military captain in polite society.