If you enjoy this kind of character, Rose’s iteration is one of the most well-written her heroine is a brainiac, she sees all the meaness directed at her but she’s also desperate (she’s got to save her planet by inventing world revolutionary terraforming solution people! Her parents only have 1 year left to live!) as well as desperately nice, and she just doesn’t have the drive to be malicious back – what I mean is, she’s coherent as a character, and we’re shown her to be so, and not told. She was born on a doomed planet, she’s too nice and too bright, of course the only boyfriend she ever had was a scumbag with an inferority complex who took it out on her, and of course she works and live in cutthroat academia where 7/10th of the people she meets are jealous of her particularly charming blend of cuteness/innocence/brain power.

Oh, how life kept screwing the poor heroine over. Next was SPACER’S CINDERELLA by Adria Rose. I’m sure he knows how to brush his teeth. But oh yeah, Wulfric is The Duke Man and I’m enjoying the anticipation of reading his book. I hate miscommunication and misunderstanding. It was slow to start, the middle was quite good but the last quarter dragged on and was way too long. Not as good as the previous installments. Not sure I like the love interest, but I plan on reading more of the series – the heroine and the era interested me.

I mean, the heroine is relatively quick on the draw once her flutes are aligned. As for the mystery, it’s an okay one, the kind where the reader realises what’s going on long before the characters, but not infuriatingly so. It was a change of pace to read about upper (really upper) society during the 1930s, with a duke that of course couldn’t have written an incriminating note to the murdered man because he always only used his special ducal paper for correspondances…! Luckily the heroine is much more degourdie, and her almost-Waterloo is about coal chutes & starting heaters, something most readers would also draw a blank about and can sympathize with. (It makes me wonder about some HR heroes, it does – do they know how to brush their teeth?!?) HER ROYAL SPYNESS by Rhys Bowen is about these kind of people. One that stuck with me came from a Britsh earl who had to let his servants go after loosing his fortune one of the thing that bewildered him in his new life was how his toothbrush did not foam anymore… turns out, he did not know about dental paste (or was it dental powder? I forget), or how his valet used to always put it on for him.

Ahoy! Long post ahead to compensate for Sarah’s short intro! 😉Ībout 20 years ago, I read a dictionary of citations of outrageous things very rich people used to say.

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