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The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
Nov. 25th, 2018 07:24 pmThe Suffragette Scandal
3/5. Historical het romance. She is a badass publisher of a controversial feminist press. He is the prodigal son of a noble house returned from criming his way around Europe. They team up to take down his awful brother.
I forget which one of you told me I'd like this book years ago, but you were right. It falls into one of my favorite romance categories: romances where the leads spend 95% of their time snarking at each other. It's great. There is suggestive banter about punctuation.
Also, this is a book about the struggle, and how it is done, and what it is for. As Milan and her heroine both say, about the work of emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. I've never read a romance that was so interested in that struggle, or how a woman would make it worthwhile to do, even as its ends seem impossible. It's a fitting end to this series which has been, in one way or another, about various kinds of social justice around the edges. This book centers that, and it works.
I was less interested in the romance – he does a thing that is so dumb and contrived that I never really got over it, even though it is a thing that particular person damaged in that particular way would have done. But I would have read about the press and her work and her friends a lot more.
Also, you're damn right he eats her out and is grateful for the chance.
3/5. Historical het romance. She is a badass publisher of a controversial feminist press. He is the prodigal son of a noble house returned from criming his way around Europe. They team up to take down his awful brother.
I forget which one of you told me I'd like this book years ago, but you were right. It falls into one of my favorite romance categories: romances where the leads spend 95% of their time snarking at each other. It's great. There is suggestive banter about punctuation.
Also, this is a book about the struggle, and how it is done, and what it is for. As Milan and her heroine both say, about the work of emptying the ocean with a teaspoon. I've never read a romance that was so interested in that struggle, or how a woman would make it worthwhile to do, even as its ends seem impossible. It's a fitting end to this series which has been, in one way or another, about various kinds of social justice around the edges. This book centers that, and it works.
I was less interested in the romance – he does a thing that is so dumb and contrived that I never really got over it, even though it is a thing that particular person damaged in that particular way would have done. But I would have read about the press and her work and her friends a lot more.
Also, you're damn right he eats her out and is grateful for the chance.