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Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)
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bookshelves: m-f, regency, historical, fantasy, fairytale
Jun 19, 2021
bookshelves: m-f, regency, historical, fantasy, fairytale
Read 2 times. Last read June 20, 2021.
A highly enjoyable fairytale take on the Regency, with a woman missing half her soul, and a foul-tempered and overstressed sorceror. The worldbuilding is lightly handled, the characters are fun and engaging, and there's a lot of depth and thought in the issues, lightly handled. Hugely readable.
Slightly shonky editing, and I wish North American authors writing Regency would get an actually British reader to pick up the jarring words like gotten and fix-meaning-make and brunch (older than you think, late Victorian, but still not Regency). Grumble mutter. Notwithstanding, I wolfed this down with great pleasure.
Slightly shonky editing, and I wish North American authors writing Regency would get an actually British reader to pick up the jarring words like gotten and fix-meaning-make and brunch (older than you think, late Victorian, but still not Regency). Grumble mutter. Notwithstanding, I wolfed this down with great pleasure.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
June 19, 2021
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June 19, 2021
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m-f
June 19, 2021
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regency
June 19, 2021
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historical
June 19, 2021
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fantasy
June 19, 2021
– Shelved as:
fairytale
Started Reading
June 20, 2021
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i’m right with you. And whilst I am Canadian, it is one of my largest pet peeves when transcripts are not edited to suit the vernacular of the period or characters on which they are created. Nonetheless, I look forward to trying this book, that is if I can find it. It seems rather elusive!
PS. Apparently the GR app does not let you edit your comments. I see that I have a grammatical error in my rant about grammar.😜😂
as a British reader i agree, gotten and drug are two of my pet hates, its got/get and dragged please. Equally Tony, took ma ages to work out what Tony house, tony office etc meant.....
I’m American and I also agree! I yell at the books sometimes because even I know certain things are absolutely ridiculous for the era. Names, how every man is unusually tall, certain words, contractions�.I find it jarring when I’m reading and come across one of these.
Maybe it's because in the end UK readers may grumble in that delightfully passive aggressive British way, but still buy the books - so why should the US market bother? But I've DNF'd many a histrom for this reason.
Dukes with white teeth and abs but no syphilis - unlikely but hey, you do you. "Gotten" and "the both of you" and a duke called Kyle? - please.