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A review by frahhn
With This Ring by Amanda Quick
2.0
Here's the thing I am a *sucker* for Amanda Quick historicals, and I love when the "youngsters" sillily discount their "elders" in a romance but I am so sick of all the weird-ass treatment of sex workers in these books I've been noticing lately?
They all need to be saved, sex work is the height of hell etc...and I just hate it. I know that victorian principles cannot be ignored for the period but many people who are sex workers like their jobs!! They are as happy as any of us can be under capitalism! And it makes me really really sad to have to get through pages of a heroine I mostly like trying to "save" someone--it's just not that simple. Ugh.
They all need to be saved, sex work is the height of hell etc...and I just hate it. I know that victorian principles cannot be ignored for the period but many people who are sex workers like their jobs!! They are as happy as any of us can be under capitalism! And it makes me really really sad to have to get through pages of a heroine I mostly like trying to "save" someone--it's just not that simple. Ugh.