{"id":24603,"date":"2025-05-18T20:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24603"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:32:25","slug":"an-unseen-attraction-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24603","title":{"rendered":"An Unseen Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Unseen Attraction<\/em> (2017) K.J. Charles<\/a> (Sins of the Cities, #1)<\/p>\n

\"AnSet in London in 1873<\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite queer historicals. It’s the first book in a series, and I’ve read just this book, or just the first two, because I adore Clem and Rowley.<\/p>\n

Look me in the eyes, boy! had been a constant refrain at school, but they said the eyes were the windows to the soul, and Clem didn\u2019t feel comfortable peering into people\u2019s windows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rowley had thought at first the beast had no name; it had taken him a while to understand that it had a perfectly good, descriptive name to which it was as likely to answer as any other, and that name was Cat. There was something terribly Clem about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was too many instructions, and it did what that always did, which was to leave Clem trapped in a jangling mass of things to do, each one clamouring for attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“He was a young man during the Regency, and that\u2019s how he behaved. He had no time for modern namby-pamby manners; he\u2019d raise his whip or his cane if anyone disobeyed him. You know.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNot really. My father got arrested when he behaved like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Clement Clem Talleyfer, Rowley Green, Nathaniel Roy, Mark Braglewicz, Miss Sweeting, Mr. Hirsch, Mr. Rillington, Alice, Lugtrout, Cat, Polly, Elsie, Phyllis, Mr. Power, Gregory, Edmund Taillefer Earl of Moreton, Mr. Ainderby Conyers, Inspector Ellis, Phineas Taillefer, Tim Taillefer, Jim Spim, Emmeline Godfrey, Lady Lucinda Moreton <\/p>\n

Publisher: Loveswept<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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