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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Yeah. The language doesn't really bother me (except when it uses words that should be clearly unknown in the time period/fantasy world - adrenaline crops up pretty often, for example). What bothers me the most in historical fiction is characters thinking and behaving like modern people and spouting modern values at every step. That's just plain wrong. If I wanted to read about modern people, I would read a novel set in modern times.
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Exactly this. In the book in question, one of the vocab/attitude red flags was the female lead talking about "sexual predators". Not a term that sounds very Victorian to me.