The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

[psocoptera]

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, KJ Charles, Regency romance novel. Longer and with a more complicated plot than the last couple things of hers I've read - I learned a bunch about different kinds of smuggling during the Napoleonic wars and also a part of England (Kent) I had basically never heard of (except that you can park two Jutes there for a bunch of turns of Britannia), which is very much what I personally want from a historical romance. I'm sure some people were like "there is too much smuggling, the smuggle/fuck ratio is off" but it worked great for me. Also some interesting complicated interpersonal dynamics between the leads (local/outsider, gentry/commoner, smuggler/lawful) giving them some real conflicts to work through. And one of them gets into naturalist observations and is excited about beetles and we got to hear a little bit about the beetles, which, like, icing on this already-delicious cake!

Comments

[ruthling]

Very much agree, this book was great

[glynhogen]

Yes, I enjoyed this one quite a bit. (Wasn't as fond of the sequel, but mileage varies.)