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A review by bowienerd_82
Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, Rose Lerner
5.0
I had my doubts going in, but this book was brilliant all around. All three stories were lovely and engaging, and vastly different from one another.
Promised Land by Rose Lerner has one of my bulletproof favorite tropes- a woman dressing as a man, in this case to fight in the Revolutionary War. The romance comes in when she runs into her estranged husband, whom she has just arrested as a Loyalist spy. I take some convincing to buy into a rekindled romance between two people who have previously broken up, but this was convincing and well-written. I also enjoyed all the detail about Jewish culture in colonial America that the author worked in. A pleasing and charming story all around.
The Pursuit of... by Courtney Milan was an utterly charming m/m romance between a black American soldier and a British deserter. I was a little dubious about the opening, but was swiftly won over, and this became my favorite story of the bunch with ease. Road trip! Cheese! Pining! What's not to love? I could have easily read pages and pages more about these characters and their lives.
That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole was the most wrenching story of the bunch, a f/f romance between the maid that has been working with Eliza Hamilton on her biography of Hamilton, and a dressmaker who is the granddaughter of one of the men who served with Hamilton. I'll admit it was my least favorite of the three, but it still had some areas of interest (I loved all the descriptions of the Grange, after my recent visit there in the fall).
Promised Land by Rose Lerner has one of my bulletproof favorite tropes- a woman dressing as a man, in this case to fight in the Revolutionary War. The romance comes in when she runs into her estranged husband, whom she has just arrested as a Loyalist spy. I take some convincing to buy into a rekindled romance between two people who have previously broken up, but this was convincing and well-written. I also enjoyed all the detail about Jewish culture in colonial America that the author worked in. A pleasing and charming story all around.
The Pursuit of... by Courtney Milan was an utterly charming m/m romance between a black American soldier and a British deserter. I was a little dubious about the opening, but was swiftly won over, and this became my favorite story of the bunch with ease. Road trip! Cheese! Pining! What's not to love? I could have easily read pages and pages more about these characters and their lives.
That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole was the most wrenching story of the bunch, a f/f romance between the maid that has been working with Eliza Hamilton on her biography of Hamilton, and a dressmaker who is the granddaughter of one of the men who served with Hamilton. I'll admit it was my least favorite of the three, but it still had some areas of interest (I loved all the descriptions of the Grange, after my recent visit there in the fall).