S02.5: James Malory Gets Bangs: Gentle Rogue

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 8 a.m.

Sarah picked this week\u2019s read without having read it recently, and she shockingly doesn\u2019t regret it! We\u2019re talking Johanna Lindsey\u2019s Gentle Rogue\u2014arguably one of the most beloved texts of the genre, complete with a reformed pirate and a heroine who is having absolutely none of his nonsense. We\u2019ll talk about heroines who are sex positive, about obvious references to the slave trade that are problematic and somehow utterly glossed over, archetypal brothers, and about the shocking lack of plot in this book (which we don\u2019t mind a bit).