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[quote=Anonymous]If you've never read any historical romance, it's hard to tell if you'd like them.  They are about 20 years old, and stick to the fairly standard tropes of standard regency romance.  I found the writing to be a little stale, to be honest.  The  main male character is always "roaring" his disapproval at something in the first book.  There's lots of balls and dancing and etiquette.  The series was very popular with regency romance readers before the Netflix adaptations were announced - following the entire family in the series was sort of novel, watching as they all grew up and found matches.  They managed to hit different romance tropes for each book - enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, etc etc.  But, at the same time, reading them now, there are what are considered to be problematic situations/themes as others have mentioned.

I do think the series is something else entirely.  The revisionist history, the diverse casts, the music - it's just a visual spectacle that you don't get in the books, AND there's been subtle (and not so subtle) updating to make them more palatable for modern audiences.

They are fast easy reads - you could try the first and if you don't like it just drop it and watch the show, and think of the show as something different.  [/quote]

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