Thank you! Apparently I only finished four books in August, damn XD Gotta aim for something more in the middle for September!
I hope you like the Millay!!
I really do like The Secret Casebook!! It's one of my favourite Charles, I think in part because the different structure allows her more space to move in than her usual (since she's written so many romance novels I mean, not because it's inherently got more freedom). As to fanon nieyao, I was like, "Okay, so he's got a temper and he can be a bit yelly but he's fundamentally really decent and devoted to the people in his care!! And the other guy is, you know, he's cunning and clever and good at social manoeuvring, he kind of manipulates this guy into giving him a chance but he ends up really liking and caring about him and OH GOD SHIT WAIT ABORT ABORT" But actually it's honestly a lot of fun!!
I think they're more like Venetia yeah... I'm trying to think if there's any real tomboys in Heyer. I don't think so from what I've read, though there is a crossdressing plot in The Masqueraders, featuring a woman who disguises herself as a man...? I didn't love the romance in that one though, it's very much one of the commanding-man-says-things-let's-obey-him ones, and in some ways I think the crossdressing can tend to foreground the gender differences that the novel actually believes in, lol.
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Thank you! Apparently I only finished four books in August, damn XD Gotta aim for something more in the middle for September!
I hope you like the Millay!!
I really do like The Secret Casebook!! It's one of my favourite Charles, I think in part because the different structure allows her more space to move in than her usual (since she's written so many romance novels I mean, not because it's inherently got more freedom). As to fanon nieyao, I was like, "Okay, so he's got a temper and he can be a bit yelly but he's fundamentally really decent and devoted to the people in his care!! And the other guy is, you know, he's cunning and clever and good at social manoeuvring, he kind of manipulates this guy into giving him a chance but he ends up really liking and caring about him and OH GOD SHIT WAIT ABORT ABORT" But actually it's honestly a lot of fun!!
I think they're more like Venetia yeah... I'm trying to think if there's any real tomboys in Heyer. I don't think so from what I've read, though there is a crossdressing plot in The Masqueraders, featuring a woman who disguises herself as a man...? I didn't love the romance in that one though, it's very much one of the commanding-man-says-things-let's-obey-him ones, and in some ways I think the crossdressing can tend to foreground the gender differences that the novel actually believes in, lol.