![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first book grabbed me as a kid and never once let go: it's got a cross-dressing heroine from the lower classes, a thief, who would do just about anything to get away from the terrifying underbelly of London. I consider this book a romance, though the romance plot is really mostly contained in the sequel, The Magicians's Ward. With love stories.Īnd for this taste, there is only one book to blame: Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. If pressed for more detail, though, we can explain more precisely that we love books about magic set in otherwise normal areas of past history, quite usually the 19th century, and quite usually London or other parts of the British Empire. It's a fault, but it's our fault, and one that we probably will not shed without great effort.įor instance, when we want to define the kind of romances we love reading more than any other, we have to fall back on the term historical fantasy romance because it is pleasantly concise. We here at Olivia Waite love to use twelve words when three would do the trick. ![]()
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