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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
No one publishes "real" Regencies anymore, which were modeled after Georgette Heyer's -- they were shorter, and all about Pride and Prejudice-like banter between the hero and the heroine, and never ever featured sex.
That's what I was used to calling a Regency! That's why I was so shocked by the steamy sex comment. Of course, I think I learned this when I was a young teenager looking for prurient reading material-- the Regencies never delivered! I did like Georgette Heyer, though.
I think the gothics and the medical romances might have been the first ones to get really sexy, but I could be wrong.
I wish I had some of the books I had edited -- they'd make such great, fun one-evening reads. And a lot of those authors either stopped writing or turned to mystery and other things, because they very specifically didn't want to write graphic sex.
A free Kindle ebook today that seems to be based on C,F,M - gone Terribly Real...
I "bought" it pretty much just based off of that.
Speaking of Regency romance, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass and really enjoyed it! The first book was a little too romance-focused for me (it was basically Pride and Prejudice, after all), but I like that the rest of the series seems to be focused on what happens after the traditional Happily Ever After: a married couple has adventures! With magic! And, on-topic, the sex scenes are not steamy but cheekily implied.
It seemed like I read a lot of 70's/ 80's romance novels where the main woman had more than one husband/lover, if not more than on "true love". Skye O'Malley comes to mind.
Speaking of Regency romance, I just finished Mary Robinette Kowal's Glamour in Glass and really enjoyed it! The first book was a little too romance-focused for me (it was basically Pride and Prejudice, after all),
I'm reading the first one right now! They just went to the ball.
but I like that the rest of the series seems to be focused on what happens after the traditional Happily Ever After:
Spoiler! (No, I kid; it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be. The fun is in seeing how it plays out.) (I assume all-naked, all-gay, right?)
I am really looking forward to the fourth book, which she describes as "Ocean's Eleven in Venice." THERE IS INDEED A GONDOLA CHASE.
Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.
Also every book includes a Doctor cameo.
Wait, what? For realz?? I totally have to try this series....
They're not overt, but any time a doctor appears in the story, he is dressed like one of the Doctors. Eleven is in the fourth book, bow tie and all.
I did not catch the doctor cameos! Possibly because I have never watched doctor who. But I am exited to hear about a 4 th book.