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Historical fiction with a touch of time travel, for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Alexis Hall, and Olivia Waite’s Feminine Pursuits series, where a modern bisexual woman is thrown into Regency England and must figure out how to survive, while she falls in love with a woman who will become a famous author. Just a twenty-first century gal with nineteenth-century problems… When Sam’s plane crashes catastrophically over the Atlantic, it defies all odds for Sam to be the sole survivor. But it seems impossible that she’s rescued by a warship in 1805. With a dashing sea captain as her guide, she begins to find her footing in a world she’d only seen in movies. Then Sam is betrayed. At the mercy of the men and morals of the time, and without the means to survive on her own, she’s left with no choice but to throw herself on the charity of the captain's sisters. She resigns herself to a quiet life of forever hiding her true self. What she doesn't expect is that her new landlady is Margaret Goodenough—the world-famous author whose yet-to-be-completed novel will contain the first lesbian kiss in the history of British Literature, and a clever woman. Clever enough to know her new companion has a secret. As the two women grow ever closer, Sam must tread the tenuous line between finding her own happiness in a place where she doesn’t think she’ll ever fit in, and possibly (accidentally) changing the course of history.
None of what is happening in this book is convincing at all. Sam’s emotions lack any depth and scenes seem to be added in for shock factor rather than to push the story forward. I will say, it’s very funny to read though.
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I had to DNF at 23%. I was explaining what was happening in the book to my husband (as I do all my books) and realized I was hate reading it at this point. I want to preface this by saying I enjoy fun books, I really do. But this was poorly thought out, lacked any depth and emotion, and solely used shocking scenes for shock value rather than to push the story forward. I think this author had a promising idea for a book but the execution was not there at all unfortunately.