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Sarah MacLean's

Heartbreaker

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He remained silent, knowing that there was nothing like quiet to unsettle an opponent.

Sarah McLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

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"The great secret of society is that ruination is not nearly as bad as they make it out to be. You'll have all the freedoms that come with a ruined reputation. They are not inconsiderable."

Sarah McLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

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““Stop telling me what I mean! Stop telling me what is best for me.””

— Sarah Maclean, One Good Earl Deserves A Lover (via baefikre)

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Any idea why Sarah MacLean never made a Benedick book from love by numbers?

I think about that every time I reread Nine Rules and tbh I have no idea unless her original plan was just to give each of the St. John siblings their love story, and she stuck with it.

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"Sarah Maclean tends to take real historical events and societal mores and twist them to modern mores and ethics and I love that. I see a lot of complaints about it, mostly I sometimes think, because people haven’t stopped to study the history behind the eras they read. I find her settings immediately recognizable. I tend to worry more when people complain about historical accuracy because it’s outside the norm of what they typically see in historical romance. The marry young/lady’s a virgin/women don’t work outside the home/boy there were huge age gaps everywhere got a lot of story time and press because they were values society wanted to promulgate, but were really only practiced or able to be practiced by a very, very narrow margin of people; typically white and middle class. The lower classes and people of color didn’t have the luxury, the artists, philosophers, criminals, and world changers didn’t want to, and the upper classes didn’t have to. The immigrants, Catholics, Jews, people of color, and people of color who are now considered white weren’t allowed to. But most readers reject those other histories because they haven’t delved deeply enough into real history to know all of that other history even exists."

entropynchaos

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Redesigning Historical Romance Book Covers: Sarah MacLean edition. @7:10

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"Play your card, Penelope." Her mouth dropped open at the words, at the way he gave her power over the moment, and she realized that it was the first time in her entire life that a man had actually given her the opportunity to make a choice for herself.

Sarah McLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

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“Losing your heart is the most beautiful way to find out you have one.”

— A Scot in the Dark, Sarah MacLean

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I think this is the filthiest book Maclean has written. I'd have to go back and re-read the others, but *whew* this was hot enough to melt all the ice in that ship's hold. Whit is a dirty talker, there's a scene where Hattie ties him to the ship's mast (with consent), and I swear Maclean was trying to torture us by dragging everything out for most of the book.

Love In Panels: Brazen and the Beast

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"The appeal of the time period for readers is very much about being able to distance readers from certain kinds of social issues and then reframe them as a reflection of society now."

Sarah Maclean talks Bridgerton

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Strong contender for best line in any book ever right here