Reading: Proper English
Nov. 16th, 2019 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
white_hartI've been meaning to try one of K.J. Charles's books for years, as so many of my friends love her, and when I read that Proper English was f/f, rather than m/m as I think most of her books are, I thought I'd give it a try. (Not that I have anything against m/m, but I particularly like f/f.)
Proper English is a historical lesbian country-house murder mystery, and it's every bit as delightful as that sounds. When Pat Merton and her brother Bill are invited to a shooting party with their old friend Jimmy Yoxall, she's expecting a peaceful few weeks of healthy outdoor pursuits and not having to make pleasant small-talk with other women, but on arrival she finds that the party is much larger than she'd expected and includes Jimmy's new fiancée, Fenella Carruth. Despite intially dismissing Fen as a featherhead, Pat finds herself becoming closer to the other woman, but this is not a happy country-house party and when one of the guests is found murdered there's no shortage of suspects.
I thought this was frothy and charming and perfect comfort reading. It felt a bit like a grown-up version of Robin Stevens's Wells and Wong mysteries (with a definite emphasis on the grown-up as there are some definitely explicit sex scenes), and I'm definitely going to read more K.J. Charles. (I gather this is a prequel to her Think of England, in which Pat and Fen are minor characters, and have already bought that.)
Proper English is a historical lesbian country-house murder mystery, and it's every bit as delightful as that sounds. When Pat Merton and her brother Bill are invited to a shooting party with their old friend Jimmy Yoxall, she's expecting a peaceful few weeks of healthy outdoor pursuits and not having to make pleasant small-talk with other women, but on arrival she finds that the party is much larger than she'd expected and includes Jimmy's new fiancée, Fenella Carruth. Despite intially dismissing Fen as a featherhead, Pat finds herself becoming closer to the other woman, but this is not a happy country-house party and when one of the guests is found murdered there's no shortage of suspects.
I thought this was frothy and charming and perfect comfort reading. It felt a bit like a grown-up version of Robin Stevens's Wells and Wong mysteries (with a definite emphasis on the grown-up as there are some definitely explicit sex scenes), and I'm definitely going to read more K.J. Charles. (I gather this is a prequel to her Think of England, in which Pat and Fen are minor characters, and have already bought that.)
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Date: 2019-11-17 06:38 pm (UTC)I didn't know about it but have now read both and absolutely loved them and I'll definitely read more. Pat and Fen are both glorious characters and my only objection to the book was that I wanted far more scenes between them.