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Originally Posted by Blossom
You are not going to find anything being published today to be what you are looking for. They are all pretty much no histories and modern dialogue set in time periods with little to no accurate history. So basically it's all about h/h and then how much sex they can have with some plot that couldn't had happen in the time period. I do like Gywn but for her comedic series she started out with but I wouldn't call her writing historical but she is quite entertaining though. Shana Galen is quite the story teller but she is definitely mistorical but I still enjoyed her spy series.
Basically if you are looking for historical fiction outside a couple authors at DANL you are not going to find it.
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Many thanks for the reply, and the semi-rec for the author of that cracktastic-looking time travel historical re-enactment selection I was also considering, which does look like it could be a definite contender since you think the author writes entertainingly enough.
I've got really low expectations for genre-typical historical-labelled romance to begin with, and DANL in particular*, since they're basically using the club to promote their newer authors without a firm established reputation and their mega-selling fan favourites (which makes perfect sense from a marketing point of view).
So all I'm really hoping for from the Lillian Marek book is a sort of fun romp with some not-too-inaccurate history/science-y bits† in it, or at least significant amounts of entertaining WTF was the author smoking?!
And as long as it's reasonably archaeology-including, I'm willing to go along with a certain amount of Quantum Leap-y-ness to the characters and plotlines.
* Why won't they add more Roberta Gellis?
I'd pay real money for them too for DRM-free, even if they aren't credit-eligible.
† And not too much in the way of conventional Romancelandia tropes that I personally find annoying.
