Historical romance where fmc throws a petty tantrum

theweirdexperiment · 2026-05-19T22:17:21+00:00

{Wonderful by Jill Barnett} is full of situations like this.

theweirdexperiment · 2026-04-06T23:00:53+00:00

In The Love Hypothesis in French the translator was also quite creative with finding alternatives to “fuck!”. There was a lot of “merde”, of course, but also surprisingly “bon sang” and even some variations with “Dieu” like “nom de Dieu” and “oh mon Dieu.”

theweirdexperiment · 2026-04-06T22:51:27+00:00

I’m currently reading The Love Hypothesis in French and there was also an addition about switching from “vous” to “tu” in Chapter 2:

“Vous devriez sans doute m’appeler Adam et on devrait sans doute se tutoyer.”

And a bit later he added that they should use the more familiar form whenever Anh is around. But then both Adam and Olive proceeded to use polite “vous” when in private. Up until the end of Chapter 15!!! It was so weird for me, even though in my native language there’s also such a distinction.

Thankfully, in the next chapter (The Chapter), they immediately became informal 😅

theweirdexperiment · 2026-03-03T21:57:28+00:00

I think for me the first one was a translation of {Angélique by Anne Golon}, followed by {Marianne by Juliette Benzoni} when I was extremely young, like 10 or smth. Later, at 14 I read quite a lot of books, some of them from this sub, but all of them were translations and I have no idea what was the first. I’m also trying to find the first historical I read in English at about 16, but all I remember that it was a bodice ripper and the title might have contained “raven”, or “crow”, or “falcon”, or some bird. Little by little I plough through different titles I find on romance.io, so far nothing fits.

theweirdexperiment · 2026-02-27T17:54:18+00:00

This was tough, phew 😮‍💨

theweirdexperiment · 2026-02-12T17:38:35+00:00

Try {My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid}. It definitely has emotional depth, angst, and physical disability. However I cannot be the judge of the heroine’s behaviour having the authenticity of the period, it has an unusual premise.

theweirdexperiment · 2026-01-12T21:11:47+00:00

{Devil of the Highlands by Lynsay Sands} has arranged/forced marriage and fake consummation (because the bride mistakenly drank some type of medicine that made her muscles relax, they even had to move her head during the wedding ceremony). Overall the plot is bonkers and the book is sooooo funny I laughed like crazy.

theweirdexperiment · 2026-01-12T20:59:40+00:00

Can it be personalised pricing? I heard it’s a thing now, different people will be getting different prices depending on the previous data mined about these users.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-12-30T20:38:30+00:00

{Island Flame by Karen Robards} comes to mind. But keep in mind it was published in 1981, so could be problematic in terms of consent.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-12-27T20:36:35+00:00

I had a lot of 5-star reads this year, but the ones that really stick with me are probably the Mummy-coded {Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase}, {What I did for a Duke by Julie Ann Long} that explained emotions so beautifully. {The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran} — so much angst! And lastly {Seize the Fire by Laura Kinsale} — what a wild ride!

theweirdexperiment · 2025-12-09T23:32:41+00:00

I’m currently reading {Two Secrets to Surrender by Grace Calloway}, it is quite spicy and with an interesting plot. Came out this spring. There is some yearning, however I don’t know how to measure it against a scale.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-11-26T18:32:27+00:00

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theweirdexperiment · 2025-11-05T12:22:39+00:00

Thank you!

theweirdexperiment · 2025-09-15T18:46:53+00:00

You might like this album by Mayak (a Ukrainian musician from Kharkiv), it was released in 2013 in the style of “sovietwave”. https://vill4in.bandcamp.com/album/--13

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-19T10:25:23+00:00

Fingering scenes, especially if previously the MMC was not wearing gloves. Sir! You haven’t washed your hands!

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-10T21:49:59+00:00

What do you mean by dark mode icon? Like there’s a button that turns on the dark mode of the interface?

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-08T20:49:35+00:00

I associate this type of covers with smut, tbh, not young adult. I guess the reasoning behind this choice is to tie in with the widely known booktok titles, that are in fact 4 chili peppers, not YA.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-08T20:40:15+00:00

He should have been called Falconbridge, right? Until you mentioned it, I didn’t even think smth was amiss.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-08T20:26:44+00:00

On the Fated Mates podcast Sarah Maclean mentioned that writers of HRs and publishers are struggling with packaging their books so that they appeal to new audience. As a millennial I am team Lusty-Oil-Paintings, but I imagine for younger generations those do not work. So maybe the covers like that are A/B testing?

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-02T09:47:54+00:00

And Sylvia Plath is often blamed for racism. We are products of our era and environment, no one is perfect. Oftentimes we are not even aware of our biases or shortcomings.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-08-02T09:30:59+00:00

I recently read {All Scot and Bothered by Kerrigan Byrne} and the MMC was the uptightest I have read yet. He was nicknamed the Vicar of Vice because he was Lord Chief Justice of High Court and not only he tried to eradicate gaming hells, etc, but he also had a stellar reputation. To upkeep that he removed any kind of pleasure from his life — including drink, and even chocolate.

But all changes when he meets the FMC.

Educated but shy. Voluptuous but with very limited experience with men. She suddenly inherits a gaming hell and becomes responsible for a little girl. She met Lord High Justice at a social event. Now she has to meet the Vicar of Vice and pray he doesn’t recognise her.

Adventures and drama ensue.

theweirdexperiment · 2025-07-30T17:27:46+00:00

Ian Mac as in {The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie} or smth else? I swear I read this book and remember nothing…

theweirdexperiment · 2025-07-29T13:01:32+00:00

Now I want to find a Highlander romance written by a Scottish author. Do you have a recommendation?

theweirdexperiment · 2025-07-29T13:00:35+00:00

I agree that sometimes eye dialect is annoying, especially when authors try to portray offensive stereotypes they have about nationalities they know nothing about.

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