7/7/2023 0 Comments The rake by mary jo putney![]() ![]() ![]() While those books were filled with adventures in exciting locales, and had some qualities I still miss, your books, when I discovered them, were so different from the pack that they were a breath of fresh air. The heroes of many of those 1980s books just took what they wanted, and didn’t spend much time agonizing about wrong and right. Understand, I came to historical romance in the 1980s via the American single title blockbuster books, at a time when they were quite different from today’s romances. And sometimes even your main characters belonged to minority groups. Your side characters could be Jewish, Roma, or gay, yet never the villains in the story. And your characters actually had spiritual lives, often in conflict with a troubled conscience. ![]() If the characters made mistakes or committed wrongs, your books actually examined the of the characters’ motives for doing so in some depth. They came along at a time when I had not read anything like them. I was a big fan of your books in the 1990s. Janine D Reviews Earl / Regency England / wager / Wales 49 Comments ApREVIEW: Thunder and Roses by Mary Jo Putney ![]()
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