A Week to Be Wicked
Tessa Dare · 2012
Dare's road-trip Regency romance about a bluestocking geologist and a notorious rake is everything the genre can be: funny, sexy, and surprisingly substantive on female intellectual ambition. Romance authors often cite it as the book that showed them what historical romance could achieve.
The case against
History here is wallpaper. Minerva's geology, the banter, and the attitudes toward sex are all cheerfully twenty-first century in Regency dress, and the road trip runs on contrivance: improvised aliases at every stop, conveniently shared rooms, a plot that bends wherever the next set piece needs it. If you require period plausibility, Dare's charm reads as anachronism with good comic timing.
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