2022/16: Something Fabulous -- Alexis Hall

2022/16: Something Fabulous -- Alexis Hall

“For heaven’s sake”— Valentine tried, and failed, to keep the impatience from his voice —“if we lived life as though it were a novel, we’d spend all our time becoming embroiled in improbable adventures and spouting nonsense about filling our vast and empty souls with joyful aches.”
“Yes,” said Tarleton, “and?” [loc. 286]

Extremely funny and gleefully ahistorical Regency-ish M/M romance. Valentine, Duke of Malvern, has proposed to his childhood friend Arabella and been rebuffed. He is subsequently woken at four in the morning by Bonaventure Tarleton, Arabella's twin brother, who informs him that Arabella has run away and that the two of them must pursue her immediately.( Read more... )