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Originally Posted by worktolive
If you don't like Tessa Dare, you probably wouldn't like Eloisa James either. Even though I believe she's a history professor, her books are very modern. They are what DA calls "mistoricals" 
Personally, although I recognize the historical inaccuracies, they don't bother me and I love both authors. Real life in the 1800's was pretty grim, especially for women, so I'm fine with authors whose characters act more modern and whose plots are completely unrealistic for the times  |
mistoricals I will have to Google that one! It isn't so much inaccuracies that bothers me but modern talk, modern ideas there's no real historical setting or consequences. It's like reading a contemporary or Fairytale romance.
Women back then could not act like that or there would have been severe consequences.
We could say Virginia Henley who writes very inaccurate historical facts but her books are very much historicals in my opinion and some of my favorites books. There are just some lines you can't cross in a historical romance or it becomes a contemporary romance or just unbelievable.
Now that said there are a few authors I read who I consider fairytale romance like Teresa Medeiros and Julia Quinn but they still keep from crossing those lines.