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lizshayne 's review for:
The Gentleman's Book of Vices
by Jess Everlee
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Awww, this was cute!
Appreciated the total lack of nobility and the Dickensian series of coincidences that make the world go round in a way that felt, at least to me, inevitable rather than contrived.
I don't have a lot to say about it, beyond once again finding the ways that contemporary authors use historical settings to have conversations about morality and what a person *ought* to do in a way that is so obviously about now rather than then.
(There's probably something also to be said here about romance novels and novellae in the sense of shu"t as different approaches to narrating the concept of ought but since I have no idea how to do it justice, I have no intention of doing it at all. Yet.)
Appreciated the total lack of nobility and the Dickensian series of coincidences that make the world go round in a way that felt, at least to me, inevitable rather than contrived.
I don't have a lot to say about it, beyond once again finding the ways that contemporary authors use historical settings to have conversations about morality and what a person *ought* to do in a way that is so obviously about now rather than then.
(There's probably something also to be said here about romance novels and novellae in the sense of shu"t as different approaches to narrating the concept of ought but since I have no idea how to do it justice, I have no intention of doing it at all. Yet.)