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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2018-06-05 09:22 pm

Think of England by KJ Charles

Think of England

3/5. Historical M/M. Disabled former military officer crosses paths with Jewish poet and spy at a house party where they are both investigating their hosts.

This has a lot of things I like – class differences that make things genuinely difficult, a person coming to terms with their queerness in a way that makes a lot of historical sense. But I was only ever lukewarm to this book because it features a dubcon scenario of the must-have-sex-now-we-are-being-watched variety, which I get is some people's jam, but is my anti-jam.

Content notes: Depictions of antisemitism.
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2018-06-06 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I liked this one, but I did spend most of the book trying to figure out whether it was an intentional Ivan/By AU, or an accidental one created by convergent trope evolution.