Bombshell by Sarah MacLean
Nov. 10th, 2023 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsBombshell
3/5. Historical romance about a girl gang that solves various problems like humiliating a noble that abuses women. One of the gang – the the fatale – ends up entangled with a dude whose entire deal I have forgotten in the week since finishing this book.
Fun wish fulfillment girl power romance that feels extremely modern because it is written for a very specific angry social media using lady of the late Trump early pandemic era. So if you go into it for that particular emotional servicing, good plan. If you go in for a historical romance, eh, less good plan.
Mostly, though, I’m realizing I need to stop reading one-off straight romances. Series? Sure. A series has time to breathe and be iterative, which I’m just now realizing is why I like them – they work a little bit like fanfic. But one-offs? About straight people? I just can’t manage interest nine times out of ten, and my success rate in picking that tenth book is not improving with time.
Yes I realize this is part of a series, but it’s the kind where each book does a different couple. I get why this is popular, but I’m realizing it’s exactly the sort of thing that keeps leaving me cold.
3/5. Historical romance about a girl gang that solves various problems like humiliating a noble that abuses women. One of the gang – the the fatale – ends up entangled with a dude whose entire deal I have forgotten in the week since finishing this book.
Fun wish fulfillment girl power romance that feels extremely modern because it is written for a very specific angry social media using lady of the late Trump early pandemic era. So if you go into it for that particular emotional servicing, good plan. If you go in for a historical romance, eh, less good plan.
Mostly, though, I’m realizing I need to stop reading one-off straight romances. Series? Sure. A series has time to breathe and be iterative, which I’m just now realizing is why I like them – they work a little bit like fanfic. But one-offs? About straight people? I just can’t manage interest nine times out of ten, and my success rate in picking that tenth book is not improving with time.
Yes I realize this is part of a series, but it’s the kind where each book does a different couple. I get why this is popular, but I’m realizing it’s exactly the sort of thing that keeps leaving me cold.