By: Harriet Lark
Available on: Amazon
Overview:
Blurb: A quick, naughty jaunt through the familiar characters
Trigger Warnings:
Purple Prose, On Screen Sex
Body Count: 0
Overall review:
- Thoughts:
- What I liked: The smut was flowery but all right.
- What I didn’t like: Short and shallow. Maybe I’m just too much a fan of period-typical slow burn, but this was just…not my cup of tea. I won’t read further, but enjoyed this well enough. It’s also very much out of character, which tripped me up
- Was it engaging?
- At times
Rating out of five: 2.5 out of 5
To Read or Not To Read (Again):
Happily Donated for Someone Else to Read
The Technical Specs:
- Series
- Series Name: Pemberley Intimates
- Book Number: 1 of 4
- Genre
- Technical Genre: Literature & Fiction, 45-Minute Romance Short Reads, Regency Historical Romance
- Theo Genre: Smutty Short Story, Regency Romance, Classic Revamp
- Page count: 24 pages
- POV: limited 3rd
- Publication information:
- Publisher: Amazon
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00ZN1EDKY
Representation, Morality, and Sexism in Media Tests:
- Bechdel–Wallace Test: Fail
- Do two female characters talk about something other than a male character? No
- Deggan’s Rule Test: Fail
- Are there at least two non-white human characters in the main cast in a story not primarily focused on race? No
- DuVernay Test: Fail
- Are there fully actualized characters of color? No
- Ellen Willis Test: Pass
- Would two related characters still work to carry the story if their genders were reversed? Yes
- Hays Code: Fail
- Part One: outdated moral guidelines
- Are there any outdated “moral content” rules gloriously kicked in the teeth by this story? Murder, happy queer characters, profanity, etc. No
- Part Two: queer representation
- Are there queer characters that get a happy ending? No
- Do the queer characters die? Not applicable
- Part Three: age and agency:
- Is there an illegal or otherwise distasteful age gap between characters, queer or otherwise? No
- Part One: outdated moral guidelines
- Mako Mori Test: Fail
- Is there a female character that gets her own arc? No
- Mary Sue/Gary Stu Test: Pass
- Is the main character completely flawless and persecuted by other characters needlessly? No.
- Take a Mary Sue test here!
- Sexy Lamp Test: Pass
- Would the plot fall apart if the female character was replaced by a sexy looking lamp? Yes
- Post-It Note Caveat:
- Would the character be able to be replaced by a Sexy Lamp with a sticky note on it for information conveyance? No.
- Tauriel Test: Fail
- Is there at least one woman in the story who is competent in her chosen occupation and not immediately shown up by a newcomer male character? Not applicable
- If she has or develops a love interest during the story, either implied or explicitly stated, does she suddenly abandon her job and/or chosen path to support or pursue said love interest? Yes
- Topside Test: Fail
- Are there two or more trans characters in the story that know each other and do they talk about anything other than medical transition procedures? No
- I acknowledge that most common media lacks decent trans representation.
- Vito Russo Test: Fail
- Is there a character on the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum spectrum who is a character beyond their orientation and do they actually affect the plot and are something beyond a punchline? No
- What does that stand for? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual/Biromantic/Bigender, Transgender, Queer/Genderqueer, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic/Agender, Pansexual/Panromantic
- Is there a character on the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum spectrum who is a character beyond their orientation and do they actually affect the plot and are something beyond a punchline? No
You can read more about the various Media Tests I employ in my reviews at GeekFeminism.wikia.org or by clicking the header on the individual test. Why include all these? Because I can, because representation matters, and because I’m neurotic.
Review format updated 14 April 2020
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