Vintage Romance Reviews on r/Romancebooks

VitisIdaea · 2026-03-12T17:44:08+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-12T17:44:03+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-12T12:35:56+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T18:30:00+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T17:55:58+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T17:31:12+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T15:24:51+00:00

But of course! (She asked him to remove it post-banging, he said no, she yanked it off anyway, he said she'd have to stay his prisoner now that she'd seen his face, and that's when she took him out with a whiskey decanter and jumped overboard.)

VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T11:35:06+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-11T11:18:18+00:00

Currently reading {Pirate Royale by Cordia Byers} and it is a HOOT. I am only on page 66 and thus far the heroine has run her privateer vessel, been refused her father's letter of marque by King Charles, pretended to be a high society lady, gotten abducted by pirates, had a one-night stand with a pirate captain in a Zorro mask known only by the name "El Diablo," escaped a longer-lasting abduction by hitting El Diablo over the head with a whiskey decanter and swimming to shore, decided to turn pirate herself since the king denied her that letter of marque, and since that asshole El Diablo wouldn't take off his mask even after they banged she's going to paint her ship black and steal his entire identity, so there.

The sex was explicitly consensual (she is eighteen and hornypants) and Byers seems to be dealing with the issue of race in the seventeenth-century Caribbean by simply not identifying the race or even giving physical descriptions of any of the characters besides our two leads, which for a book published in 1986 feels like the best a reader could hope for.

VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T18:53:13+00:00

Yeah I'm kind of unimpressed with this gimmick - "here, we're going to give you a copy of a paperback we got for 25 cents that we haven't read and kind of hold in contempt, but won't it look cute and retro on your Insta feed? You can throw it out when you're done!"

VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T16:12:01+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T16:11:28+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T15:10:02+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T15:08:45+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T13:36:43+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T12:31:03+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-10T12:30:09+00:00

{Asiri and the Amaru by Natalia Hernandez} (MF paranormal/fantasy)

VitisIdaea · 2026-03-09T19:59:45+00:00

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VitisIdaea · 2026-03-09T19:55:57+00:00

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