{"id":19965,"date":"2022-04-29T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:34:44","slug":"an-unsuitable-heir-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/19965","title":{"rendered":"An Unsuitable Heir"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Unsuitable Heir<\/a><\/em> (2017) KJ Charles<\/a> (Sins of the Cities)<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>Set in England in 1873.<\/p>\n

I have complicated feelings about this story, and I’m pretty sure they’re all on me and not the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does he do?\u201d Pen paused. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t say, actually. We mostly talked about, well, me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo wonder you think he\u2019s charming.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do like Mark.<\/p>\n

“Gone back off home now to bring down the Empire, trzymajmy kciuki.\u201d He tipped his glass. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was that?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPolish. Means \u2018Let\u2019s keep our fingers crossed.\u2019 ?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDid you just drink to the fall of the British Empire?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI was brought up in bad ways.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still. Needs more Clem.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Loveswept<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Unsuitable Heir (2017) KJ Charles (Sins of the Cities) Set in England in 1873. I have complicated feelings about this story, and I’m pretty sure they’re all on me and not the story. \u201cWhat does he do?\u201d Pen paused. \u201cHe didn\u2019t say, actually. We mostly talked about, well, me.\u201d \u201cNo wonder you think he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,30,292,33,8,196,148,41,26,56],"tags":[50,476,544,765,557],"class_list":["post-19965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-british","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-kj-charles","tag-mm","tag-sins-of-the-city","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5c1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24629,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24629","url_meta":{"origin":19965,"position":0},"title":"An Unsuitable Heir","author":"Michelle","date":"June 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"An Unsuitable Heir (2017) KJ Charles (Sins of the Cities, #3) Set in London and Norfolk England in 1873 I do like Mark. \"Gone back off home now to bring down the Empire, trzymajmy kciuki.\u201d He tipped his glass. \u201cWhat was that?\u201d \u201cPolish. 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Burn your love letters, or have \u2019em put in the ground with you, or they\u2019ll be tomorrow\u2019s packing paper.\u201d Hall gave a slightly rueful smile. \u201cI put \u2019em aside for packing, when I notice, rather than\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Queer Trade","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/a-queer-trade.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17492,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17492","url_meta":{"origin":19965,"position":5},"title":"Short Stories: KJ Charles","author":"Michelle","date":"June 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Short Stories: KJ Charles \"Five for Heaven\" (2019) A Charm of Magpies 3.5 Set in Nagasaki, three years after A Flight of Magpies (15 pages) \"A Confidential Problem\" (2016) Society of Gentleman 2.5 Set in England in 1820 (14 pages) \"A Private Miscellany\" (2016) Society of Gentlemen 3.5 Set in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/A-Private-Miscellany.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}