#the soldier's scoundrel

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[geneseedraws]

Oh, how I adore my regency boys... He's some fanart of Oliver Rivington and Jack Turner from the amazing book, The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian 💕💖

I am so in my Historical Era (have I ever left?), but oh man gimme everything gay and 18th-19th century 🤌🤌 Oliver and Jack together forever!! These guys were SO fun to read about, such a great dynamic of a nobleman and a gritty scoundrel 🤭💕 Already want to reread it again... ✨

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || August 28 || Author's Debut: The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian

[pretensesoup]

Queer books, day 22/30

Okay, I wrote this all and then Tumblr ate it, so here we go again. LOL help.

Here we have Oliver Rivington, former army captain lately invalided home. He comes to see Jack Turner when he discovers his sister, Lady Montbray, has paid him 200 GBP. (This is like FOURTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS in today's money, so he is probably right to be concerned, actually.) Jack is a former scallywag turned private eye who tells Oliver to fuck off. While they're bickering, another client arrives--a woman with some missing letters--and Oliver starts in on the "exactly what kind of operation are you running here?"

Fortunately(?), Oliver has literally nothing better to do than to harass Jack and try to dig up dirt on him. This leads to shouting. Angry, stressed makeouts in an alley after an attempted mugging. A road trip that is full of intense longing and the two of them teasing each other sexually. Being detectives together as a love language! It's amazing, honestly. All written with Cat Sebastian's characteristic wit and "eat the rich" attitude, with a defense of women and the power men hold over them on the side. Lovely.

Key quote:

The lady obviously spent her days reading, napping, and eating biscuits. He didn’t know whether to be disgusted or jealous.

To be honest, this one has a bit of a rough landing. It's one romance novel where it felt like despite being in love, Jack and Oliver should maybe not have ended up together. They're well suited, but the class thing is SO MUCH of a thing that it starts to feel weird that they find a way around it. BUT. In the end, I love it too much to really criticize it for wanting to make me happy. 10/10, go read it.

Warnings for graphic sex and some period-typical homophobia, violence, and allusions to violence against women and women being subjugated to their husbands because it's 1817 and, you know, fuck everything. But Lady Montbray eventually gets a nice girlfriend, so it all works out in the end.

[hiidenneiti]

Tällä hetkellä lukemassa LUIN JO — Cat Sebastian: The Soldier's Scoundrel. Avon Impulse, 2016.

Jack Turner grew up in the darkness of London's slums, born into a life of crime and willing to do anything to keep his belly full and his siblings safe. Now he uses the tricks and schemes of the underworld to help those who need the kind of assistance only a scoundrel can provide. His distrust of the nobility runs deep and his services do not extend to the gorgeous high-born soldier who personifies everything Jack will never be. After the chaos of war, Oliver Rivington craves the safe predictability of a gentleman's life-one that doesn't include sparring with a ne'er-do-well who flouts the law at every turn. But Jack tempts Oliver like no other man has before.

& The Lawrence Browne Affair. Avon Impulse, 2017.

Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least, that’s what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family’s crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence’s new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down. Georgie Turner has made his life pretending to be anyone but himself. A swindler and con man, he can slip into an identity faster than he can change clothes. But when his long-dead conscience resurrects and a dangerous associate is out for blood, Georgie escapes to the wilds of Cornwall. Pretending to be a secretary should be easy, but he doesn’t expect that the only madness he finds is the one he has for the gorgeous earl.

[bookbaran]

Every time I reread The Turners, a different book is my favorite. This time it was The Soldier's Scoundrel.

[aurorawest]

Reading update:

An OMG THEY WERE ROOMMATES romance that I loved a lot more than I thought I would! Walter sleeps around and never gets close to anyone because of his crippling abandonment issues, Kelly is Disney-obsessed (Tangled and WALL-E are his favorites haha), from a small town in Minnesota (!), and is looking for True Love. There’s a side plot where Walter’s beloved advisor is up for tenure, and I really loved the way the idea of a happy ending was subverted with it. Reading this made me want to expand that little Froststrange college AU oneshot I did into a full original novel, haha.

If there’s one thing reading romance novels has taught me, it’s to never ever ever judge a book by its cover. Tbh my biggest problem with this cover is that Jack is repeatedly described as having dark chest hair. WHERE’S THE CHEST HAIR, AVON IMPULSE? My second biggest problem with it is that Oliver is too buff when he’s repeatedly described as being unhealthily thin. Because he doesn’t eat. Because of his war injury. See, this book is already deeper than you would think based on the cover.

No seriously though, this is typical Cat Sebastian Regency m/m romance, so I obviously loved it. I think this was actually her first book? I’m definitely a sucker for the class difference trope, and I always love the way Sebastian writes it. Jack and Oliver were lovely and their HEA kind of made me die a little from how adorable it was.

Currently reading:

I’ve been really excited to read this and I’m enjoying it so far! I like Cai better than Vel atm, though Vel isn’t exactly at his best, considering how the book starts.

[goombas-shoe78]

Predictable Jack Turner. ❤

[thegreatyin]

the doomed scientist, looking up from his newspaper: where the hell have you been. it's been three days. i hoped you were dead (permanent)

the bandaged scoundrel, walking into their home covered in fluke blood, voice cracking from terror: gett,in,g ric,h

[bebisexual]

i love bisexual men

[stinastar]

SOFTIE 💗

“oh, I only want to sleep with him” // “we will live together forever and I will rejoice in spoiling him” 😂💗

[the-knights-who-say-book]

i’ve been in a reading slump for about a month so i decided to read Soldier’s Scoundrel for the third time and. it worked. what a good book

[rottengurlz]

I decided to start the alien romance but I’m also going to be starting a dowry of blood by s.t. gibson so I can get the best of both worlds alien freaks and bi vampires <3

[a-ramblinrose]

“The lady obviously spent her days reading, napping, and eating biscuits. He didn’t know whether to be disgusted or jealous.”

― Cat Sebastian, The Soldier's Scoundrel

[nesmamomen]

ISRAELI SOLDIERS RAPE GIRLS IN GAZA‼️

Don't ignore my words, I don't want to be assaulted either. I am Farah from Gaza, I have lived my life under difficult circumstances. Every day brought with it new anxiety, especially after I heard stories of soldiers raping girls. Fear became a part of my life, and I began to feel that I might be the next target.

I decided that I could not remain idly by. I created a fundraising campaign on social media, where I shared my story and fears with the world. My goal was to raise enough money to escape Gaza and find safety.

With the support of my friends and family, I was able to raise some donations, but it is not enough yet, as I have to pay a coordination to exit Gaza of $5,000 just to escape my beloved country because I fear that I will be assaulted by those scoundrels.

€6,207/€10,000

Please imagine that you are in my situation, please help me escape. Every dollar will be used to save me and build my future

UN report proves my words click here

My campaign has been verified

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[hiidenneiti]

Noista kahdesta kirjasta (The Soldier's Scoundrel & The Lawrence Browne Affair):

Oikein menevää m/m-romanssia. Molemmat kirjat sijoittuvat 1800-luvun alun Britanniaan, mutta historiallinen kehys on melko löyhä. Enemmänkin kyse on siitä, että pukudraama tarjoaa mielenkiintoiset puitteet kahden miehen väliselle rakkaustarinalle. Ja miksipä ei! Nautitaan siitä että kaikilla on kravatti.

Kyseessä on kaksi ensimmäistä trilogian osaa. Vaikka molemmissa kirjoissa esiintyy samoja hahmoja, ovat päähenkilöt eri ja juonet itsenäisiä. The Lawrence Browne Affairin voisi ihan hyvin lukea ennen The Soldier's Scoundrelia jne.

Juonesta puheen ollen: molempien kirjojen rakenne on sama, keskiössä on jonkinlainen pienimuotoinen mysteeri (kuten perhesalaisuus), jonka henkilöhahmot "joutuvat" ratkomaan yhdessä. Vaikka tarinassa on jännitettä ja pientä toimintaakin, on tunnelma kuitenkin pääasiassa aika lempeä ja keskittyy pääparin tunteiden kehittymiseen. Nämä eivät ole rakkausromaanien joukossa mitään melodramaattisimpia teoksia.

Joitakin synkkiä piirteitä henkilöhahmojen maailmassa on (mm. parisuhdeväkivaltaa), mutta ne ovat olemassa yleensä "kuvan ulkopuolella" kuten muistoissa tai hahmojen epäsuorasti kuvailemina.

Eniten pidin The Soldier's Scoundrelista. Oliver ja Jack ovat ihana pari luokkaeroineen kaikkineen. Tarinan loppukiri oli ehkä vähän vaivaannuttava, mutta söpö epilogi korvasi sen. Rumasta kannesta johtuen yksi tähti pois!