#a lady for a duke

[vkelleyart]

“I could never marry you, Gracewood. The world––“ “Forgive my language, but […] fuck the world. I will change it for you if I have to.” ~ A LADY FOR A DUKE by Alexis Hall

Behold, the winner of the Trans-cendental Stories Fanart Poll on my Patreon! 🏳️‍⚧️I was so smitten by this beautiful story about love and second chances and living your truth in the face of a society that would rather not accept it. It was clever, funny, steamy, and gosh, it just ticked all my historical romance boxes. I adored it. 💕 Thank you, patrons, for your votes and your support, and I look forward to unveiling some secrets in the weeks ahead! 👀

#a lady for a duke #fanart #alexis hall #Justin de Veré #Duke of Gracewood #Viola Carroll #Viola and Gracewood #transgender art

[transbookoftheday]

Transfem Book Recs for International Women's Day

Happy International Women's Day! Here are some transfem book recommendations for you:

Book Titles:

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Just Happy To Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Me and My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale and Hui Qing Ang

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes

Fake It by Lily Seabrooke

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Fierce Femmes And Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor

Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

#light from uncommon stars #cheer up: love and pompoms #joy to the world #a lady for a duke #tell me i'm worthless #just happy to be here #me and my dysphoria monster #pet #for the love of april french #fake it #detransition baby #fierce femmes and notorious liars #princess of the pomegranate moon #her majesty’s royal coven #the ojja-wojja #galaxy: the prettiest star #into the gray #little blue encyclopedia (for vivian) #transfem #trans books #queer books #transfem books #transfeminine books #trans book of the day #bookblr #booklr

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Hi friends

Have you heard of A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall? I just finished it and it’s a DELIGHT.

It looks like a fairly typical Regency romance novel, and in many ways it is - there’s a ball and a duke and emotional moments on top of cliffs by the sea and distasteful suitors and an older woman who is too brash for society and a barely-there uncle who is cheerfully dim and all kinds of things you would expect.

But it’s also a story about a trans woman trying to live her life and a man with PTSD trying to figure out who he wants to be, although neither of them have the language to describe themselves as such. The author specifically set out to write a historical romance with a trans heroine where her being trans is *NOT* the central conflict and I believe he succeeded admirably. Gender is a part of the story, of course, because it can’t not be when Regency England was such a strictly gendered society, but not because of the MC’s trans identity.

Anyway, I loved it and you should read it if any of the above sounds appealing to you. You should also read Hall’s other books - Boyfriend Material is probably the biggest and I love it, but Something Fabulous is laugh out loud hilarious and one of my favorite historical romances I’ve ever read.

#romance #book rec #alexis hall #a lady for a duke

[justabooklovingmetalhead]

8 amazing trans books for trans day of visibility!

#transgender #trans #trans day of visibility #the spirit bares its teeth #a lady for a duke #the heartbreak bakery #cemetery boys #the passing playbook #baker thief #the sunbearer trials #magical boy #alexis hall #andrew joseph white #a.r. capetta #aiden thomas #isaac fitzsimmons #claudie arseneault #the kao

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

goodreads

When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become. As Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself, fresh desires give new names to old feelings. Feelings that would have been impossible once and may be impossible still, but which Viola cannot deny. Even if they cost her everything, all over again.

Mod Opinion: I hadn't heard of this book before, but it sounds like it is a really sweet romance.

#a lady for a duke #alexis hall #polls #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #historical fiction #romance #trans woman

[shiraglassman]

books i owe reviews to

I am behind on Stuff but here are some books I read recently that I liked

Lavender House 1950′s queer noir. Gay cop gets fired for being gay and ends up a hard boiled PI solving one of those Rich Household Murders when the head of a soapmaking fortune falls to her death. Has TW’s but a happy ending for the MC, who sounds like Batman in the audiobook.

Legends and Lattes Orc retires from adventuring and opens a coffeehouse in a city that’s never heard of coffee (which is its own kind of funny.) She accidentally found-families herself because of course she does, and it’s got f/f in it. 

A Gentleman in Moscow Smartass elegant aristocrat is sentenced to permanent house arrest in a hotel when the communists take over in Russia 100ish years ago. Book describes the next several decades of his life and all the adventures you can get up to in a small space, which are: plenty. Surprise, like the previous one this also has restaurant stuff in it so I felt very Seen by the person who recommended it to me. Has m/f in it.

A Lady for a Duke Regency m/f romance. Heroine was thought dead on the battlefield in Waterloo but instead, she’s nursed back to health in a cottage and takes the opportunity to quietly transition and return home to become the “poor companion” to her brother’s wife. Problem: her old best friend, who has a lot of Waterloo trauma himself, is at the end of his rope. He does lash out when he figures out his new love is his old lost friend, but it’s 100% selfishness not transphobia (”how could you let me think you were dead”) and there is more than enough space in the story for him to redeem himself. Just wanted to make sure y’all knew that was in there.

I also read Project Hail Mary ages ago and that was really cute. I LOVED the ending bc it was more than I was expecting by that point. I went in nearly completely cold and that’s why I’m not describing the plot, just that someone I trusted said that they thought I’d like it. So I’m gonna let that be the spoiler: that it was ultimately cozy enough for the likes of me. :P

#booklr #lavender house #project hail mary #legends and lattes #a lady for a duke #a gentleman in moscow #books #reading #queer books #romance #trans books #trans romance #orcs #noir

[eskewcity]

Imagine you’re talking to this guy and he starts lamenting about his dead bestie that he thought died during war who meant everything to him and you have to pretend that you’re actually not the dead bestie because you can’t tell him you’re 1. Alive and 2. A woman

#a lady for a duke

[whydamnitwhy]

Yeah sex is great but have you ever read a book that altered your brain chemistry?

#aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #nora sakavic #captive prince #cp #cs pacat #the darkness outside us #eliot schrefer #boyfriend material #alexis hall #a lady for a Duke #a marvellous light #freya marske #new favorite book has arrived #a strange and stubborn endurance #foz meadows #i finished this and now I can’t stop thinking about it

[alainas-sims]

Viola Carroll, 1818

Viola is the main character from the book A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall. It's a beautiful and sweet Regency era romance with a trans heroine and I highly recommend it.

#ts4 historical #A Lady for a Duke #Viola Carroll #ts4 regency #the sims 4 regency #ts4 screenshots #lgbt sims #sorry for infodumping about one of my fave books it will happen again #i'll probably make the Duke of Gracewood too and them as a couple <3 #wcif friendly

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Trans Historical Fiction

The Companion by EE Ottoman Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall Bonus: These are all Adult, but in YA, check out The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Double Bonus: Coming in 2024, The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

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#A Lady for a Duke #Alexis Hall #All the White Spaces #Ally Wilkes #Andrew Joseph White #Confessions of the Fox #EE Ottoman #Jordy Rosenberg #Lee Mandelo #Maya Deane #The Companion #The Spirit Bares its Teeth #The Woods All Black #Wrath Goddess Sing

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Read in 2024:

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

❝ Damn the world. The world told you that you had to live the life it shaped for you, and you defied it. The world told me that I had to be as my father was, and I defied it, or am trying to. We can make our own world, Viola, with our own rules. ❞

#litedit #a lady for a duke #alexis hall #romanceedit #lgbtq books #historical romance #period romance #queer books #trans books #lgbt literature #regency romance #book moodboard #romance #histfic #viola carroll #justin de vere #books2024 #read in 2024 #mystuff #my edit

[transbookoftheday]

My Favorite Trans Books

Today is my (@traeumenvonbuechern) birthday, so I want to share some of my favorite trans books with you to celebrate!

#the witch king #godly heathens #h.e. edgmon #cheer up #cheer up: love and pompoms #crystal frasier #sir callie and the champions of helston #esme symes-smith #a lady for a duke #alexis hall #lark & kasim start a revolution #moonflower #kacen callender #the genesis of misery #neon yang #lakelore #anna-marie mclemore #the heartbreak bakery #a.r. capetta #grit #silas denver melvin #transmasc #transfem #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

[sapphic-book-tournament]

Ugh, I was so sick all September but here’s a cute little graphic I made while I had COVID that wraps up what all I read during the summer!! Feel free to share opinions I’d love to talk!

#don’t stop me now #Eden Emory #marrow #Trisha Wolfe #brynne weaver #criers war #iron heart #nina varela #lady for a Duke #a lady for a duke #alexis hall #Chloe brown #get a life chloe brown #talia hibbert #astrid parker doesn't fail #delilah green doesn't care #ashley herring blake #this poison heart #kalynn bayron #Victoria arrow #katee robert #dark olympus #mindfuck series #cat sebastian #seven husbands of evelyn hugo #blind beauty #giovanna book #club petale #the queer principles of kit webb #emily mcintire

[campbelliah]

Contemporary rom-com? Baking show

pastiche? Tender BDSM love story?

Historical fiction? Sherlock Holmes but

set somewhere weirder than Discworld???

Alexis Hall has got you.

#alexis hall #a lady for a duke #rosaline palmer takes the cake #for real #spires #boyfriend material #husband material #the affair of the mysterious letter #books and reading

[beckbucket]

i read alexis hall's a lady for a duke and it was wonderful!

so i commissioned the talented @kyanneoss to bring her ball gown to life <3

(if i were a regency noble, i would fall in love with her too)

#a lady for a duke #alexis hall #alfad #fanart #trans representation #the best part about being an adult with money is spending that money on art

[sarahreesbrennan]

A duke, tormented and brooding over the loss in war of his best friend since childhood, the boy who was the joy of his life. A lady of modest means with whom he forms an unexpected connection… and the lady IS the childhood best friend lost in war. I didn’t read Alexis Hall’s A Lady for a Duke for ages because I feared nothing could live up to that amazing premise, but it does! My favourite thing is our hero and heroine’s conversations, both painful in their openness and showing the fun of fitting together. One of the great romance novels of my year.

#Alexis hall #book recommendation #books books books #a lady for a duke #Instagram