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Books by K.J. Charles
The Magpie Lord
by K.J. Charles
· published 2013 · read 2020-06-30
★★★★☆
Romance, mysterious curse, estate management: A queer/gay romance in a fantasy version of Victorian England. The youngest exiled son of a lord returns to England after his father and brother die, and has to contest with the curse that led to their deaths. Luckily, he finds a strange but attractive young wizard blah blah blah, you see where this ends. Very atmospheric, and too well-written to deserve to be labeled as "enjoyable trash".
A Case of Possession
by K.J. Charles
· published 2014 · read 2021-08-03
★★★☆☆
For the first part of the series, I called it “too well-written to deserve to be labeled as enjoyable trash”. The language of this second part remains well done, but the writing … not as much. It's more over-the-top, tryhard – when it doesn't really need to try hard, being itself would be enough: Magic Victorian lover boys return to the dirty city and deal with giant rats and prejudice while alternating between horniness and relationship drama. It's not bad, but the charm of the first part has worn off a bit. I'm not planning to read the next part any time soon, but I imagine at some point I'll be sick or tired or just in need of a comfort read, and I'll come back to the series then.
Flight of Magpies
by K.J. Charles
· published 2014 · read 2022-01-23
★★☆☆☆
More from the ever-same dramatic duo with the uncomfortably unhealthy Ds overtones. An old enemy returns for lack of interesting new ones, a new ally spawns in just to be hot and awesome. If not for the overly yikes and predictable parts, I might be interested to see where the series goes after escalating towards the end, but I think I'll stop here.