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Midnight Scandals by Courtney Milan, Carolyn Jewel, Sherry Thomas
2.25
- Carolyn Jewel
1 star, DNF
How do you even made an affair romance boring… Her writing style definitely helps with that so I’ll probably never check out her other books.
How do you even made an affair romance boring… Her writing style definitely helps with that so I’ll probably never check out her other books.
- Courtney Milan
3 stars
I love her writings as always (very easy to read, her characters are easy to love etc) but the romance itself is pretty mediocre. The short length of the story could be the cause, but also Courtney Milan (even though I like her writing style) is a hit or miss for me.
I love her writings as always (very easy to read, her characters are easy to love etc) but the romance itself is pretty mediocre. The short length of the story could be the cause, but also Courtney Milan (even though I like her writing style) is a hit or miss for me.
- Sherry Thomas
2.5 stars
Sherry Thomas is also the same with ‘hit or miss’. I thought this could be a hit because both leads are a widow. I almost always like widowed characters in histrom because they are not very naive and usually older. Unfortunately, two things made me not enjoyed this.
1) I just dislike the trope ‘character A has the exact same face as character B who is an ex’ in romance.
2) The characters are tied to Sherry Thomas’s series. I don’t enjoy ensemble cast in romance.
Sherry Thomas is also the same with ‘hit or miss’. I thought this could be a hit because both leads are a widow. I almost always like widowed characters in histrom because they are not very naive and usually older. Unfortunately, two things made me not enjoyed this.
1) I just dislike the trope ‘character A has the exact same face as character B who is an ex’ in romance.
2) The characters are tied to Sherry Thomas’s series. I don’t enjoy ensemble cast in romance.
Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
2.0
Sorry but… I don’t think Pride and Prejudice works if both Darcy and Elizabeth are males, not even if one of them was a trans men.
Every critical reviews are already talking about it but Oliver’s way of viewing woman annoyed me. It feels as if he has no empathy for the treatment of woman in 1800s patriarchal society, as long as HE wasn’t treated as a woman.
‘Oh, you’re a lesbian who needs to be married and financially dependent to a man? I could never debase myself like that. I could never live like a woman’
NOBODY want to live like that. Do you think just because woman are used to live that way, that means it’s more okay?? Of course, he is a man and he shouldn’t live as a woman but the way he thinks of every female characters here is annoying.
Other than that, this retelling stripped everything that made Pride & Prejudice special.
Every critical reviews are already talking about it but Oliver’s way of viewing woman annoyed me. It feels as if he has no empathy for the treatment of woman in 1800s patriarchal society, as long as HE wasn’t treated as a woman.
‘Oh, you’re a lesbian who needs to be married and financially dependent to a man? I could never debase myself like that. I could never live like a woman’
NOBODY want to live like that. Do you think just because woman are used to live that way, that means it’s more okay?? Of course, he is a man and he shouldn’t live as a woman but the way he thinks of every female characters here is annoying.
Other than that, this retelling stripped everything that made Pride & Prejudice special.