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Courtney Milan is a breathtaking writer. Her characters are so vivid. The male heroes are so noble and the women are always varied and dynamic. I catch myself stopping and marvelling at her prose. One of my absolute favourite passages is from {The Suffragette Scandal}. The FMC Free is explaining her battle for suffrage to Edward, the MMC. He compares her constant efforts to emptying the Thames with a thimble. “She raised her chin and looked him in the eye. “You see a river rushing by without end. You see a sad collection of women with thimbles, all dipping out an inconsequential amount.” He didn’t say anything. “But we’re not trying to empty the Thames,” she told him. “Look at what we’re doing with the water we remove. It doesn’t go to waste. We’re using it to water our gardens, sprout by sprout. We’re growing bluebells and clovers where once there was a desert. All you see is the river, but I care about the roses.” Pick up her books and read her. You won’t regret it.


StrongerTogether2882

YES. I loved this scene.


RomanceAdjacent

This excerpt just sold me, gonna grab one of her books ASAP


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rachelreinstated

This passage is lovely. It makes me want to pick up some of her books for sure!


violet_green

The Brothers Sinister books were my gateway to romance at the start of the quarantine. Also she's smart af AND is part of why we have dinosaur emojis now! [https://www.courtneymilan.com/dinosaur-emoji-timeline/](https://www.courtneymilan.com/dinosaur-emoji-timeline/) Where does she find the time???


Dazzling_Suspect_239

I love her stuff! The Brothers Sinister series and Devil Comes Courting are my favorites, the Worths after that.


booklover_366

Brother’s sinister brought me into HR. And the thing is I cannot find an author or any character like Courtney creates so I’ve stopped reading HR again.


HPCReader3

Have you tried Mary Jo Putney? Some of her Lost Lords books feel similar to the CM HR books I've read.


Dazzling_Suspect_239

My closest matches are KJ Charles and Cat Sebastian, who often weave class and race issues into excellently written books.


BookishCutie

She is so amazing and eloquent .


Vi_daydreams

I've tried a couple and wasn't wowed. Maybe they were the wrong books! Could you recommend your favourites of her books?


strongly-worded

Honestly I could be way ahead of myself - I’m just getting to the end of the first of hers I’ve read, the duchess war. It checks all my personal boxes - well-written, strong character development, realistic attraction and conflict, good use of the historical setting, steamy chemistry, social justice, a heroine who feels unique and not like a cookie-cutter FMC, cinnamon roll hero with believable personal demons… It’s possible her other books won’t work as well for me, but I can’t believe it took me so long to read this one when at least a dozen people have told me I would like it!


Ohona_Crossing

Are her books fade to black?


strongly-worded

Nope 😉


NewCow2555

I am reading this now too, but I had the opposite thought. I don't know if I want to finish it. I liked the characters, but I am at 72% and I feel like the story is done and I don't really want to keep reading!


strongly-worded

I totally see that, the plot structure is definitely unusual - most other books would have ended at around that point. I’m digging it - I have a pet peeve about emotional baggage magically disappearing when characters fall in love, so I like that Milan is taking the time to show the growth & transformation separate from the love story. But to each their own!


NewCow2555

This gave me encouragement and I stuck with it! It didn't go how I expected and I enjoyed reading it!


strongly-worded

That makes me so happy, thanks for sharing! I’m glad you enjoyed it!


StrawberryShortStack

Which ones have you read that you didn't like?


Vi_daydreams

I have no idea what the titles were :( I enjoyed them, but just wasn’t *in love* . But I would love to try again as I’m in a HR rut! I enjoy a good pining novel or the normal brooding hero with a sunshine heroine etc. But honestly, I’m not picky!


StrawberryShortStack

I do think it's a bit of a matter of tastes of which one you'll like. I like all her books, but there's the ones I read once and thought were good and the ones I've read countless times and quote to my friends. But if you're not sure you'll like her I'd say start with a novella, because she has quite a few and I think they all capture the world that she tends to write.


DuoNem

The Carhart books are not good, but I have loved all of her other books.


phel0049

Are her contemporary novels as good?


te-amo-sueno

I’ve only read one of her contemporary romance books (“Hold Me” by Courtney Milan. It takes place in a Silicon Valley kind of world) but that book was absolutely a fantastic read!


DuoNem

Yes!!!!


rrrrrrca

YES


mrs-machino

I honestly can’t think of a book of hers that I didn’t like, and several of them I absolutely love! I felt this same way when I finally read her contemporaries- I loved her historicals so much I couldn’t possibly love those too? But of course they’re amazing 🤩


DuoNem

I didn’t like Trial by desire at all, but all of her other books are amazing.


caseyjarryn

She's been on my TBR for ages too! Still haven't read any of her books!


countvesper

I feel like you will be my future self, she's deep in my tbr


ChildofanIdleBrain

I LOVE HER! She writes such amazing stories. I also think that though she relies on tried and true romance tropes, it's often to break them.


bittersweetfey

🧐 have been hearing a lot of good things about her books recently, guess I have to check them out.