![]() ![]() …I’m sure there are others I’m not recalling or may be unfamiliar with. ![]() The book is also heavy references to other works - besides quoting well known authors - the personality and dynamic between many of the characters borrows heavily from Oscar Wilde’s plays, pirates flying a building is straight out of Monty Pytgin’s meaning of life, the aversion everyone has to Morveth’s poetry and his determination to read it is exactly how Vorgon poetry is received in Hitchhikers…. I’m not sure if it’s an attempt to have her excessively contentious as a personality trait or something else. Besides struggling with the genre, I also struggled with overuse of paraprosdokian as the main comic device and the central character’s unwavering determination to if not live by the book (of rules of proprietary) to evaluate everything by Victorian rules of proprietary, rules that literary no one in her life follows. And puts the novel adjacent to Queen Victoria Vampire Slayer or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies rather than Bridgerton or Outlander. I guess it’s good fun once expectations are adjusted. ![]() Not the dragons and knights type, but rather set in a world where pirates are women who fly their houses about the country, pilfering (rather than plundering) and leaving the child rearing to their husbands whilst they attempt to assassinate one another. I expected historical romance, possibly a bit quirky. ![]()
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