{"id":24745,"date":"2025-07-25T20:50:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24745"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:29:26","slug":"viscounts-villainy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24745","title":{"rendered":"Viscounts &#038; Villainy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Viscounts &#038; Villainy<\/em> (2025) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Therin_Allie.php\">Allie Therin<\/a> (Roaring Twenties Magic #3)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=191%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Viscounts &amp; Villainy\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?w=1627&amp;ssl=1 1627w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=651%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 651w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=768%2C1208&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=976%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 976w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy.jpg?resize=1302%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>November 1925<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian and Wesley are in New York after the events of the previous book, and Sebastian is trying to learn to live without magic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going well. He&#8217;s a pacifist who has relied upon his magic to get him out of fights and danger, but now we has no protection but those around him, and isn&#8217;t comfortable with that fact. Meanwhile, someone is still after the remaining relics that could control&#8211;or destroy&#8211;magic, and Sebastia, Wesley, Rory, and Arthur have to stop them.<\/p>\n<p>First, Wesley is adorable, no matter how much he tries not to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo, stop, you\u2019re forbidden from saying anything so outrageously sentimental.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut it\u2019s like you were made to be cuddled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dare you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Stop trying to give me feelings, you absolute menace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second, I like the travel back and forth from England to the US. And the cultural differences between Brits and Americans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll follow behind your train tomorrow in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a long drive,\u201d Wesley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRespectfully, Wes,\u201d Arthur said patiently, \u201cwhat you consider a long drive as an Englishman and what I consider a long drive as an American are not the same thing. We\u2019ll be fine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story started in <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12928\"><em>Spellbound <\/em><\/a> is now done, and I&#8217;ll miss these characters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Wesley Collins Lord Fine, Sebastian de Leon, Arthur Kenzie, Rory Brodigan, Geoffrey Collins, Alfred Fairfield, Louis Fairfield Lord Valemount, Nora Fairfield, Jade, Zhang, Jianwei, Alasdair Findlay, Stella, Sasha, Lord Thornton, Gwen Taylor, Dr. Wright, Marcus, Ned, Mrs. Harris, Elsie Harris<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Carina Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viscounts &#038; Villainy (2025) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) November 1925 Sebastian and Wesley are in New York after the events of the previous book, and Sebastian is trying to learn to live without magic. It&#8217;s not going well. He&#8217;s a pacifist who has relied upon his magic to get him out of fights [&hellip;]<\/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":[12,30,292,2,204,33,207,8,148,26,56,34],"tags":[335,50,544,212,883],"class_list":["post-24745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-british","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-urban-fantasy","tag-allie-therin","tag-boinking","tag-mm","tag-ptsd","tag-roaring-twenties-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6r7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26531,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26531","url_meta":{"origin":24745,"position":0},"title":"Viscounts &#038; Villainy","author":"Michelle","date":"April 5, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Viscounts & Villainy (2015) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #3) Set in 1925 in New York & England Yesterday\u2019s cable from Geoffrey was checking whether I was returning to England for the Christmas social season or if I was dead and the title was his now. \"What the hell do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Viscounts & Villainy","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Viscounts-Villainy-191x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26529,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26529","url_meta":{"origin":24745,"position":1},"title":"Once a Rogue","author":"Michelle","date":"April 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Once a Rogue (2023) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic #2) Set in 1925 in New York \u201cTomcat Lodge,\u201d Sebastian read. \u201cI\u2019m not sure people come here to sleep.\u201d \u201cNot at all.\u201d Wesley eyed it. \u201cIn fact, if I were going to imagine an inn where drunks could stagger from an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Once a Rogue","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Once-a-Rogue-190x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22179,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22179","url_meta":{"origin":24745,"position":2},"title":"Once a Rogue","author":"Michelle","date":"August 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Once a Rogue (2023) Allie Therin (Roaring Twenties Magic) Set in New York in 1925 I wish I'd been better able to focus, because I love Allie Therin's stories. 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