current squee...

[ratcreature]

I've been binge reading the Benjamin January mysteries the last couple of days (currently at book ten), and between the yellow fever and cholera epidemics and bank collapses in background they feel rather more resonant with the current affairs than I expected when I picked them for escapism...

The series is really great so far though.

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[lynx212]

I am going to have to look into these books. I need new stuff to read!

[ratcreature]

They are great. I'm up to 12 now. Unfortunately my library only has the first 14, and the ebooks of the last three are expensive to buy... *grump*

They are not fluffy because of the omnipresence of slavery, racism, and the ongoing Native American genocide of the US frontier and colonial powers on top of whatever murder is going on, not to mention the epidemics and bank crashes, but the characters are all complex and the main characters likeable. And it is definitely not grimdark or cynical in outlook despite the setting.